first off the rebels the opposition to blame need to. try to free. speech which is so fake that the rebels like the houla massacre it just before. syria. the situation. there are teachers. who are. they don't want to go back to a situation in which i have to. negotiate. they don't want the way back they just want to remove by force that's a very serious risk especially with their older players who boldly that each approach to china there is. syria there is so. by turkey could trigger a broader war. where the hell a massacre occurred on the eve of coffee and

a visit to syria this latest bloodbath comes just a had a un security council meeting to discuss syria later today but in the halls of the united nations deadlock over the mask is proving no barrier for the u.s. which is finalizing plans for a post syria are just very important i reports. the united nations is the only diplomatic forum where every country is supposed to be governed by the same rules united nations founding charter close upon us to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security a founding member and biggest financial contributor america ratified inside the u.n. treaty in one thousand nine hundred five which prohibits unprovoked attacks or military interventions in sovereign countries unless authorized by the un security council but. my fellow americans today our armed forces joined our nato allies in air strikes against serbian forces responsible for the brutality in kosovo in recent decades the us has been seen by

a leading the very international laws it helped create we have acted with resolve the u.s. and its allies also acted without authorization from the un security council when it launched a seventy eight day aerial attack on yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred nine nato starts war against the federal republic of yugoslavia serbia and montenegro. serbia for seventy eight days occupies kosovo and this doesn't have you an authorization until the very end the us again disregarded international law in two thousand and three after the security council refused to support a military strike on iraq they withdrew their new additional resolution rather than face defeat clearing it is their argument the way for a military campaign without any new u.n. approval the united nations security council has not lived up to its responsibilities so we will rise to ours and. not in conformity with the u.n. charter from our point of view and from the charter point of view it was indeed by

circumventing international law for geo political interests experts say the us has systematically damage the confidence and credibility of the un it's been used by the united states i think as a fig leaf to get multilateral prove off from the policies that the u.s. wants to do but if the u.n. doesn't agree with the united states as you know the case of iraq or kosovo the united states just disregard in the case of syria we're kofi anon fragile peace plan has showed slow progress washington is prepared to once again bypass the un if the security council fails to impose more pressure on damascus members of this council and members of the international community are left with the option only of having to consider whether they're prepared to take actions outside of the annan plan and the authority of this council. for diplomacy they have the legion's

apparently the united states thinks it has no need for diplomacy it has missiles and drones the u.n. was founded at the end of the second world war as a place for countries to solve conflicts through dialogue rather than gunfire however the honorable goal of maintaining global peace and security becomes harder to attain every time a member state decides to play by its own rules or an up or ny r.t. new york the clashes in syria how already spilled over the border to lebanon are to met with the country's interior minister who believes the virus of the syrian violence could be contagious for the whole region here's a taste of what's coming for you later this hour here on r.t.e. . we have some global and arab interests clashing and we all understand that we don't understand this where this clash will take us in the end but we can say one thing with about if the syrian conflict is resolved one way or another this will affect the situation in lebanon. lebanon security doesn't depend on lebanon.

politically and in terms of security and lebanon depends on external factors as well the the people of lebanon have close religious family ties with neighboring states. foreign military interference into serious affairs and strong arming a regime a change there is unacceptable and that's the message coming from central asia six pioneering powers as a shock hi cooperation organization summit in beijing wrapped up while all eyes now are all on its fringes where rain and avg an issues will be brought to the forefront explains. well the shanghai cooperation organization summit which last two days now has come to an end with some very important security agreements have been signed between the parties involved but definitely the most interesting events of today are the meetings. the leaders of iran mahmoud ahmadinejad and afghanistan i mean first of all. china for him it's just the place to be because it is probably

one of the few places in the world where he is not being threatened by sanctions where he can all feel relaxed and smiling we saw on the cameras as he was walking inside the building how children relaxed he was definitely putting on him have a lot to talk about because russia plays a very important role in mediating the conflict between iran and the west moreover the timing of this particular meeting in beijing is very important as well because in the middle of june we're expecting a five plus one group of negotiators to meet in moscow to discuss the iranian issue certainly this happens i mean the time when washington does not rule out military action against tehran and constantly keeps slapping iran with a different sort of economic and trade sanctions both russia and china support to support the civil nuclear program in iran at the same time they would not support any military nuclear program in this country now as for the meeting with it's also seen as very crucial because russia is now playing a very important role in afghanistan providing one of its military bases in the

town it will be honest for the nato troops to deliver its military cargo to afghanistan to help the withdrawal of the u.s. troops from the country by the end of twenty fourteen it's evident to many that the war on terror in afghanistan is not working out as it was planned civilians are being killed by terrorists drug trafficking and still there so russia certainly wants to play a very important role in bringing this country to peace both russia and china have agreed to bolster their military ties of the news which would probably be unwelcome in the west and particularly in the united states definitely this latest meeting between the leader. of china and russia a very interesting spin through the international geopolitics and. we're always interested in your thoughts on the stories we're covering so it r.t. dot com we're asking what you think the reasons behind russia stepping up its military ties with china are let's take a look at the site vote now. and in just a few seconds you'll see that so far the majority of respondents think it's to keep

washington's asia pacific ambitions in check eighteen percent say moscow wants to ensure regional security and others are split between two options to keep tabs on china's growing military might and game or the ridge in the un security council to join the vote at r.t. dot com. the bloodletting continues to span all across again a stand with scores of people killed in a recent wave of bombings including a nato air strike local officials say eighteen civilians died at a wedding ceremony when the alliance forces launched an air raid on a village in the country's east nato commanders have denied a report claiming the only wide taliban fighters on the same day three suicide bombers hit a market outside a sprawling nato base in khan are killing twenty two people investigative journalist gareth porter says nato activity in afghanistan has become a magnet for civilian deaths wherever it happens. this whole problem of u.s. and nato military operations both air strikes and night raids is

a situation that has caused enormous opposition from the population particularly of the southern afghanistan. region of the country to increasingly oppose the presence of u.s. and nato forces if you look at the casualty figures for civilians and you compare them with the level of foreign troops operating in afghanistan you can see that there's a direct correlation between the two and the more u.s. and nato forces particularly u.s. military forces are active in a particular area the more civilians are going to be caught up in the fighting so the exact opposite is really the reality of the united states could ever protect the civilian population will still to come here in a program the pirates riding a wave to success there's mutiny on the political ship in germany as the pirate

party loses the economic crisis and a friendly face take a first step until after the power. of the trial of america's most famous army whistleblower gets going in court it turns out it's the u.s. government that's hiding skeletons in the closet. the house of ousted egyptian president hosni mubarak has worsened dramatically comes just days after the eighty four year old was jailed for life for complicity in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising the former leader is currently in intensive care or suffering from shock hywel pressure and severe depression where the runoff looming on june the sixteenth hundreds of thousands of temporary or square are calling for mubarak's former prime minister ahmed shafik to be disqualified from the presidential race for many egyptians the revolution hasn't brought to change the. we're hoping for and that's particularly the case for women artists are further

explains. when the situation women was dragged into terrier to be exposed and abused by the military men it serves as a stark reminder that barrack mice of being toppled egypt's arab spring has many hurdles to overcome if it's to blossom into a democracy for a conservative culture watching a woman exposed in that way open the floodgates to shocking tales of female protesters subjected to violence and sexual harassment not just at the hands of those they opposed but their fellow revolutionaries as well still we're having a small profit with some men and the streets that there are still a little bit again as to having women with them side to side in the political women played a vital role in egypt's revolution but what the future now holds for women and their rights is far from certain in the day life of women actually is what water

i'd like my do to to live. i do less in the same way i live my i do this with no harassment sexual harassment is rampant in egypt forcing women to wear conservative clothes and even avoid areas where they might come into close contact with men because of the problems is that to harassment that a lot of women complain about here in cairo the metric system has some areas for women only many of the women say that's to avoid some of the nuns wandering around . egypt's now facing the prospect of an islamic government that's raising fears over what it could mean for women's rights i met with as around just one of just eleven female m.p.'s and a member of the muslim brotherhood she's controversially condemned the practice of female circumcision which was banned under the former regime. who had. the rules of the constitution first and then we will see about the rules for women and where

nothing and who will do what is right. these coups tour of a card one women's rights kids risk egypt's new modern democracy becoming a terrifying three back to the past age is a female oppression now. we know from. point which is very for street because usually off to. gain the political revolution in egypt maybe in food but the cultural one it seems could be just getting stuff to. see a little. more on our headline news you can had to argue to calm the tao website and here are some of the other offbeat stories available on line the u.s. president likes to keep things trim but his obsession over a look and slick go so far they even fly is his hometown barber known as

a real thing from chicago every day now more on about a surprising streak on our website plus. the online viral video series of the so-called russian climber continues as these guy brave strong winds to do press grandstands and chin ups girder hundreds of meters in the air without any. european commission has proposed more control of banks which means they will come under a much greater central oversight this comes after financial institutions of europe's economic baskin germany felt the global european squeeze following the downgrade by

moody's on wednesday investment advisor patrick young says your business now paying a high price for turning a blind eye to problems which have long existed. we've really heard the truth that i think many in finance knew all along buying such as current spike they build themselves up a huge portfolio where they thought they were being very very clever by buying themselves bourne's of places such as greece italy spain in other words all the places where not they can't possibly sell their debt because the governments are effectively in huge problems so therefore what's happened is once more another little layer of the onion let us say has been peeled away and that's examining and showing us that ultimately the euro house new clothes the european union is in a total mess due to its three years of denial of its economic problems all of the politicians have basically left the people stranded the new government in spin went

into the nile mode from the ball and they came into office and six months later they've suddenly realized what anybody who is remotely financially literate could work out six months ago two years ago even spanish banks are thoughts and ultimately there needs to be a way in order to manage to rescue them but the conventional belike mechanisms are not going to work and that's why ultimately it's very difficult to see tragically whether or not there really is a future to the euro was a currency because it's a disastrous political scheme rather than an economic engine of prosperity rather it's the opposite it's putting people out of work for work rather than putting them in jobs. and that's our mix guys are really looking at the u.k.'s efforts to snare economic prosperity and the financial crisis. the metropolitan police in the u.k. are going to go after them. well max and i were there to witness some of the

buildings they raided they all looked suspiciously like council flats over nine hundred police officers are busy working across london tackling financial crime against businesses in the public as part of the latest operation in the m.p.'s is total war on crime in the last twelve months the police have seized over fifteen million pounds in cash from the small time economic fraudsters well they've got it backwards you know as the frederic bastiat said a couple of centuries ago eluding at the top begets living at the bottom if you want to get we're losing at the bottom dollar alluding at the top which means get rid of cameron get rid of us born get rid of mervyn king until that happens expect more looting at the bottom. as a european financial roller coaster teams bringing not just economies but also governments down it's given some political parties a chance to get to the top the pirate party in germany has seen a surge in popularity as people decide not to put their trust in traditional

factions in office ass's their political ambitions. it may seem like a hollow in convention but don't let these outfits for you this is the annual conference of the pirate party of germany only three years ago it had just about one thousand members and now there are almost thirty thousand and with deputies in three local parliaments including in berlin paris or friday jacking their way into mainstream politics paris have become more digital landscape in germany that a lot of parties have to take account of and you already see that are people reacting to the party success story started a new in local elections last september when they surprise anyone newly named percent of votes now according to opinion polls the party would capture up to thirteen percent of votes across germany if the election to the national parliament was held today. a newcomer within the party system they produce

a policy making people didn't expect from a traditional party they offer a new style and political communication and they are kind of a platform for the transport of putting to protest. the borders are all about participation and transparency allowing all members to take part in discussions online and it doesn't seem to matter that so far leading the submitted to me to political motions in schools by where until conservations or that their favorite meeting spot is a bar in berlin they don't have a stance on foreign affairs or the financial crisis and they have already made a few mistakes along the way with one senior member comparing their success with the first years of hitler's nazis though he quickly apologized we don't take ourselves so seriously we're not a pun first as other politicians are we we know that we're human and we we make

mistakes and he accept that we make mistakes and therefore we have no promise. saying ok sorry i was wrong germany's national election is next year and appointments and ready for battle just like most young organizations the pirate party over germany's going through its own case of growing pains but its popularity and flyers are on the rise and it could be time for mainstream politicians to watch out for the new kids on the block is going to. germany now take a look at some of the stories from around the world u.s. federal agents have arrested dozens of workers add the largest airport on suspicion of smuggling millions of dollars worth of cocaine thirty three people are accused of sending the drugs aboard commercial flights for at least a decade they are suspected of belonging to to puerto rico based drug trafficking organizations that work together and start the drugs were sent to several america

cities including miami and new york. the space shuttle enterprise has arrived at its final home after floating out the hudson river it's been lifted into space into place rather at the sea air and space museum in new york although it's never been on an actual space mission it was used as a test vehicle for experiments on the ground it was brought to new york after nasa decided to and thirty year shuttle program. the pretrial hearings in the case of bradley manning accused of the biggest classified data leak in u.s. history have kicked off in maryland but there is growing concern over your fairness whether u.s. government withholding more than two hundred thousand relevant documents from manning's to fans blogger kevin get starr who witnessed the first hearing shares he's impressions. but what was really clear today is that the government has been misrepresenting intentionally the sort of evidence that it has in its possession that it knows agencies possess which they do not want to turn over to the defense

they cite legal reasons and on may military justice rules they talk about the fact that the defense hasn't been specific and they make up how they haven't you certain terms that you would normally use so they're just you know going above and beyond to stall and make sure that they can keep going where they don't provide the information that the defense wants that's just not the role the judge is actually the person who makes the decision on whether evidence is supposed to be turned over to the defense is not the government or the prosecution's decision. all right it's time now for the busy is where the marina hello there are now the russian markets are open look what's happening there and are russian investors as happy as each one . it seems that some investors here have woken up on the wrong side of the bed because we're seeing the makes picture if we take a look at the latest figures will see that the r.t.s.

is adding a lot of the my sex is dropping their guard almost half a percent of the my sigs by about a quarter but we've seen this with a minus six yesterday as well it's sod it all pretty much volatile for a couple of hours and then it stabilized pulls the territories and we have to see what happens but in general the russian economy is going from strength to strength so we can expect to see positive figures all around later on in the session but it's still early to discuss now let's move on and take a look at currencies also have updated figures for that when it comes to the ruble and the euro of course the euro is still losing against the dollar nothing much change there and when it comes to the ruble it's the same picture as of yesterday it's gaijin against both major currencies and the central bank has been put in a lot of effort to strengthen the ruble because for the month of may it shed fourteen percent of its value another important thing for the russian economy is crude and crude prices are heading higher as you can see light sweet is fighting at around eighty five dollars per barrel while the brant blend is above one hundred

dollars per barrel and what we know there is first of all investors are encouraged by the fact that in the year west stockpiles have dropped as we've been reporting and also the wrong signal that it may take a hard stance when it comes to its nuclear talks this always helps to bring prices higher now moving on to asian markets they are extended wednesday's gains we can see that the nikkei and the hang seng i get in over one percent when it comes to japan we also know that it's the weaker that it's boosting exporters with miles than panasonic over four percent this hour and now moving on to the u.s. let's review some of the performances of other international markets they are close right nasser seen the figures from wednesday both are down the nasdaq gained over two percent and the majority of the optimism came from the fact that both the u.s. and europe signaled out. there will be doing some monetary. growth also when it comes to the u.s. we know that there was a survey done by the federal reserve that showed that they call the. speed and of

course this always an investor confidence boost for them and then move in the europe a similar pick so there is a positive thing. and the game's over it's super science mentioned that there were positive reports coming out from europe and banking stocks were among those that group particularly well some mining and there's some let's go for a second and talk about spain because the government there will test the waters of the global credit market later today the cash strapped economy will try to raise one point six billion euros that's in the speculations it's been seen in the bailout funds and spain needs to find that least eighty billion euros. which are struggling due to bad loans. and next hour we'll see if european investors are happy as well. all right thanks very much indeed well as you know we travel and folds we check different time zones and different yeah investors out of things are

much indeed for this marina looking forward to your next update next hour why and in less than fifteen minutes time from now remind cosworth will take a look at who survived the quake or battles in a paris summer he'd reached the french open semifinals before that i'll bring you the headlines.

with the war going away. many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake especially. weapons on hair trigger alert. because of the difference to use it. you know if you keep spinning a trillion dollars a year on weapons of eventually you're going to blow everybody you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see if people don't wake up. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war and this second sound is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today.

on the bag you're watching live from moscow these are the top stories massacre of a. government forces find dozens of women and children. once again coinciding with a high profile appearance of kofi on a. touching sore point. shift. wrapping up his chinese tour. of the political revolution that failed to bring up cultural one women in egypt their five for a. rise from the ashes of the uprising. next an explosive interview with a lebanese interior minister marwan gives his outlook on how bloodshed in syria could play out for the region.

well again a swell of the lebanon is affected by internal tensions and we do not conflict or decisions related to security issues are made outside by other countries so how can you talk about security in lebanon that. has a little bit of lebanon security doesn't depend on lebanon alone politically and in terms of security and lebanon depends on external factors as well that the people of lebanon have close religious and family ties with neighboring states. is that an alternative to. the corner and that has to be an automatic even smaller countries than lebanon has just external have. a conflict also what do you think about the conflict between the shia and sunni. about fitness and in one hundred seventy florence.