a new massacre reported in syria however estimates of casualties vary dramatically as the timing of the slaughter just ahead of a briefing to the u.n. security council basis is patience. and the u.n. general assembly is meeting right now here at the pictures from new york kofi annan there and some strong statements have already been made as the u.n. chief called syria's president as illegitimate we'll bring you the latest in a few moments. global political purpose shifts to the east where delegates are in an afghan issues are discussed in beijing that's not in their putin to meet with the country's leaders. and increased cases of assaults on women in egypt's tahrir square reveal the plight of female protesters whose hopes for democratic changes

are fading as islamists try to take a grip on power. on air and online twenty four hours a day this is r.t. it's being reported that syria has suffered another massacre and province there are however conflicting accounts as to the number of victims but estimates ranging from nine to several dozen it's also unclear who was behind the atrocity authorities were for national explains from syria you may find some of the images in this report disturbing. there is even more confusion about this latest massacre here in syria than all the previous ones and a lot of the details of alleged witness accounts and video just don't match so far the most extreme death toll. stands at almost one hundred and this is the figure that's been picked up very quickly by most of the international media

immediately after it emerged now the opposition's claim is that government forces shelled two peaceful problem in villages in central syria not far from the city of hama and after that allegedly prove as solid militants went in and they tied people on the sharks to be stabbed and brainstem in an orgy of violence and to support that the opposition posted a number of videos allegedly from this village show when dead bodies but however these videos contain bodies that by all appearances to degrade or to have died yesterday raising many questions on the credibility and the truth of their positions claims and just where these bodies came from on the other hand the syrian government has a completely different take on what happened. in syria they say they got a call from a local resident asking for help after militants took over the feel of the army has

been stationed in the area they've been reporting beforehand that they are preparing for an anti-terrorist operation so after that call they immediately launched this operation and we are receiving right now. reports from official sources in hama that after the army went in they discovered nine bodies of civilians and following the clashes that occurred after that two officers have been killed and five others have been injured as you can see both sides think there is a child there while witnesses reports just contradict each other about who was responsible and without credible had been. right now just simply impossible to establish who was behind this massacre well despite the uncertainties surrounding the killings some western and arab powers have made their own conclusions with some leaders immediately blaming president assad for the atrocity and once again calling for action against his regime let's now across live to artie's we're reporting live

for more on this summer what's been the international reaction to the report so far . well so far most of the international reaction has been holding the assad government responsible for what has taken place and hama u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton said charlotte bears the responsibility of the most recent deaths that took place and said that syria will not be peaceful until assad goes now her british counterpart david cameron also called for a concerted action from international powers against syria for months and months we've seen the u.s. and its western allies pushing for regime change in syria but over at the united nations in new york a meeting is taking place with the general assembly and the u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon also said that bashar al assad and his government has all lost all its legitimacy and he said that any regime that tolerates the killing

of its own people has lost all humanity clearly the secretary general pointing the finger at the syrian government now the secretary general of the arab league also took to the podium to address the general assembly and called on the u.n. security council to punish the syrian government including through the use of force we have heard in recent weeks the u.s. and european leaders calling for consideration of some type of intervention into syria other countries such as russia and china have been pushing for more diplomatic efforts have been sticking to the six point peace plan that was laid out by the joint special envoy kofi annan who is also at the united nations right now just saying the general assembly will be meeting with the security council but he

said that any kind of unilateral action or intervention into syria would not go well would not be a success if everybody in the international community was not behind it. well of course this latest slaughter in syria comes just before briefing to the un general assembly going on as we speak oh we expect anything concrete from the session. well he is speaking as you mentioned to the general assembly now and then will be meeting with the security council in a few hours but what was clear through the words spoken by mr non he said that he must be frank that the plan that he put together the six point peace plan that called for many things most important the cease fire is not being implemented mr anon said that the crisis in syria is escalating the violence is getting worse the country's becoming more polarized and more radicalized he said when he met with president assad a week ago he had urged for for the leader to to to be responsible for the

commitments he made to the six point peace plan and he said ultimately what happens in syria according to mr anon he said whether he said the violence is coming from both sides the ultimately the government is responsibility is responsible to protect its own people so mr anon said that the international community must act very swiftly before the circumstance in syria gets any worse he also said as i mentioned unilateral action or intervention into syria without consensus would not be a success and of course he will be elaborating on that when he speaks with a member of the security council in a few hours ok. thanks for that update. well to school on this crystal hole still who's been covering events in the region so is there a strong indications that how the massacre was carried out by terrorists. when the terrorists you know called off the annan peace plan that was in fact

a joke they had never kept they have never stuck to it there are terrorists at work very clearly and very clearly they're sponsored from abroad openly saudi arabia has said that. turkey is involved people you know fighters come over the border from jardin from lebanon from iraq from turkey and that in fact the situation very much and there are kinds of media lies the most recent where we hear that eighty people were killed in the massacre well the same resistance group you know publishing this said a little later that they were just fifty and that it was twenty four this was all in official german radio and in fact the government says it was nine but the killing was done by the terrorists and i think that is believe bill and the other things are lies the usual lies we hear since the year. more on the situation in syria on our web site including the theory that the timing of the latest reported

massacre in hama was no coincidence we explore how similar precedents have already been used in the past to justify military intervention in foreign countries bypassing the u.n. going to r.t. dot com for more. now the e.u. debt crisis has meant a big business for italy's maffia which has been described as the country's number one bank according to a recent report by european crying group struggling small businesses are boring money from criminal groups to keep afloat as banks restrict venting to an economic crisis well from the story we're joined by i mean god it was the general of his to tito bruno the only an economic think tank based in milan but he was joining us here on our teja reportedly then how firm is the mathews grip on the country's economy. well it's really. in europe or right around a large fire actually mark economic activities have been growing quite steadily

last few years it is very interesting and i lie on thing that we knew instinctively we're actually a big group of which is that mantra is particularly strong in channeling so for example the india energy business sector is. a very important. leader in the next few years and the basic point is that mark is extremely efficient in getting it all so i'm of the subset that are coming down to the south if they actually case that and with the debt crisis showing no signs of letting up where could this matthew bloom as it well some of the lead. where we cannot actually say and it being like a prediction amenable to this kind of phenomenon we're talking about is to measure the size of the g.d.p. goes it. that prior to the business sector we got our act at our eyes by criminal

act but see from the one thing you can seeing i'm in the beginning of mafia on the economy is particularly strong now or because mafia has cash and you've got plenty of small businesses particularly in the south and in the center of the country without running short of cash and have some kind of relationship with mafia because they worked for years to buy protection from up here they made to the mafia as the investors who say their capital and they may go into the black sector for getting money they could not get out of the banking sector this is very troublesome and it's a very important offering that can our government really need. to fix some of the problems that are troubling telecom in particular and we need to give you six a should they still make more money available to intelligent businesses more

legitimate money coming out with customers and not coming out mafia and cream you're going to say well interestingly i mean the recent report cites corruption as one of the may just stumbling blocks in the stemming the broader us and crisis but it doesn't seem to be the focus of the you politicians very much is the problem underestimated that in your opinion well certainly so you know corruption is a long haul i mean could are going to need these basically didn't stop them and the fact that the taliban leaders lation is so complicated so difficult to understand so convoluted. that nobody you know to be understand it and so he's no certainty of law law in part of economy i mean there's some very strong divide in between to probably get ministration anybody is probably get ministration and the state can do whatever they can individuals are given my struggle life i mix as anything but just a little be. many cases in which strong investment future oriented activity were

basically stopped by d's lack of legal certainty now to address the problem you don't need to take charge made and then you don't need to get into crisis management to address that problem you need to go back to the foundations of our country making law something reliable and certain again but unfortunately governments need that they like anyone else when you're just talking as we go on the emergence of how to get something done in next to the least and none of them actually thinking about it from the mental problems of our economy all which the lack of the certainty of law is certainly one of the most important festival. even the best timing of the director general of a city to have been in the ne thank you you thank. well later today marks cars that will be looking at the u.k.'s efforts to snap economic forces and the

financial crisis. met police launch a war on economic crime the metropolitan police in the u.k. are going to go after them in the last twelve months the police have seized over fifteen million pounds in cash from these small time economic fraudsters well they've got it backwards you know the frederic bastiat couple centuries ago looting at the top begets looting at the bottom if you want to get rid of looting at the bottom get were looting at the top which means get rid of cameron get rid of born get rid of mervyn king it's all that up and expect more looting at the bottom and more on the zombie apocalypse. now russia's a kremlin there's a backing iran's drive for peaceful nuclear program shown skating with central asia as regional security summit in beijing spearheaded by russia and china at the event

president vladimir putin met with leaders of afghanistan and iran two nations which often divide opinion in the west. point's. china for him is 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 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 a role in afghanistan providing one of its military bases in the for the native troops to deliver its military cargo to afghanistan to help the withdrawal of the u.s. troops from the country by the end of the fourteenth is evidence of many that the war on terror in afghanistan is not working out as it was planned civilians are doing by terrorists drug trafficking in the still there so russia certainly want to play a very important role bringing this country to peace. well we're always interested in your thoughts on the stories we're covering at r.t. dot com we're asking today what you think of the reasons behind russia stepping up its military ties with china but so far the majority of respondents think it's to keep washington's asia pacific ambitions in check seventeen percent say moscow wants to ensure regional security others are split between two options to keep tabs

on china's growing military might and gain more leverage in the un security council we can join it right at r.t. dot com. but it was the birthplace of the egyptian revolution but squares reputation is now being tainted by sinister trend activists say female protesters are being increasingly subjected to violence and the arming incidents that some say reflects a much bigger social and cultural problem what he said referred to reports on the plight of egyptian women who fear that instead of the freedoms promised by mubarak spall they may be facing an even darker future. when the suggestion women was dragged into terrier to be exposed and abused by the military men it served 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 on with some men and the streets is 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 war is 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 a sexual harassment but a lot of women complain about in cairo the metric system has some areas for

women only many of the women say that's avoid some of the men's wondering. 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 a round just one of just eleven female m.p.'s and a member of the muslim brotherhood she's controversially condoned the practice of female circumcision which was banned under the former regime. who read the rules of the constitution first. the rules for women and where and who do what is right. these coups to revoke hard won women's rights could risk egypt's new modern democracy becoming a terrifying throwback to the past ages of female oppression now. from. point again which is very frustrating because

usually after which you feel that you're going to gain the political revolution in egypt maybe in a cultural one it seems just getting started so that. the timeline of the turmoil in egypt can be found on our website and there's plenty more for you there including a blazing nuclear submarine in miami make it into the record books as the most costly from a cause by some it's gonna move on to don't come. down to say that stone age artists may have been using techniques in a cave drawings creating the impression of being. they civilian death toll continues to rise in afghanistan with dozens of lives lost

in the last forty eight hours local officials say eighteen civilians died at the wedding ceremony when they took forces don't stop an air raid on a village in the country's east alliance commanders deny the reports claiming they only hit taliban fighters in the same day three suicide bombers targeted a market outside a sprawling nato base in kandahar killing twenty two people are best for the journalistic of porter says an intense activity in afghanistan has become a magnet for civilian deaths. you know this whole problem of u.s. and nato military operations both your strikes and raids are use a situation that has caused enormous opposition from the population particularly the southern afghanistan. region of the country are to. increasingly oppose the presence of u.s.

and nato forces in fact if you look at the casual the casualty figures for civilians and you compare them with the level of foreign troops operating in afghanistan you can see that there is a direct correlation between the two and because of that. the reason for that correlation is obvious that 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 passmore the knees making headlines across the while the south grinker prosecutors have ordered the arrest of a far right member of parliament for his attack on female leftwing deputies to no life t.v. debate and yes i suppose they're sick through a glass of water when they sit in pain often she brought up his alleged involvement in the like in case five years ago

a television debate came ahead of the country's parliamentary election in ten days time. hundreds of workers have rotted at the chinese factory foxconn which produces apple devices with dozens of protesters detained employees a class for security guards supporting reports of an attempted theft if you don't you thought previously came on the five forcing stuff to work excessively long hours for those salaries. the pretrial hearing for the bradley manning case is taking place at fort meade twenty four year old manning is accused of aiding the enemy by publishing hundreds of classified u.s. cables and whistle blowing web site wiki leaks defense plans to call several u.s. state department workers to assess the damage done to american formulations by the disclosures. the type of business he is now and their value investors are set to snap up russia's crown jewels it's just the government's announced the big privatization will start this year joins us this. and all major roads near full go

under the hammer from september jacob bill from morgan stanley russia thinks investor interest will be high. these are some of the great companies russia that are being privatized spared bank and obviously the two largest banks rosneft is the largest oil company and you have a number of excellent infrastructure assets including. airports largest airports in the country particular when combined with the nuke of a twenty five percent of russian railways a number of poor. and so i think that any serious investor will want to take a good hard look at these assets whether they're russian or foreign. just said in other news american news but russia's biggest first rosneft will go under the hammer next year it's also a run up corporation with america's exxon mobil the new economic school surrogate greer says the company is moving in the right direction. i think it's

a very good sign that the government today decided that they should be privatized i think it's it's a step in their idea actually there is no reason why it should be a government owned company it works in a competitive sector it's not an infrastructure company needs another defense company should be privatized but i would still be until the deal because we're hearing that so many times and we've not seen it is asian happening yet it's a very good sign that it's been on that. and as i was saying ben bernanke has just said that the federal reserve the fed stands ready to act to protect the financial system and the economy in the event that financial stresses from the european crisis escalate that's sent in the first few hours of trade america slightly up british premier david cameron is in germany to warn angela merkel the euro is in the last chance saloon he has to push for a huge rescue deal to save the failing single currency in the spotlight at the moment particularly in spain whose banks need at least eighty billion euros to cover property loans is just sold another two billion euro but the government

admits it's too big to bail out by brussels madrid also said world markets are now refusing to lend to it for fear they won't be paid back russian markets closed higher yet again it's been a very good week after a bad year russia's joint state development bank v.p. says it's ready to support russia's active market by buying shares it also hopes to reduce volatility on the market by doing so energy stocks like the fact crude is gaining for a fourth day as policy makers in the usa they may pump extra money into their economy to boost growth on top of that iran says it will take a hard line in nuclear talks and that always raises the oil price time to check exchange rates the euro's a bit higher against the dollar this hour it's just gone into the red in fact in the last few minutes and as for the ruble it's gaining yet again it's been a good week for the russian currency as well it's gaining to the main currencies and now finally china has cut its key interest rates for the first time since two thousand and eight the world's second biggest economy is doing its. to boost

slowing growth the benchmark one year loan rate was called by a quarter of one percent to six point three one percent in addition china's delay the implementation of tougher capital rules amid concerns they may be hurting lending and europe to carry more stories are on the website ok thanks diana more from you later. well just a few minutes in r.t. time for the bankers to take cover which can only mean it's because the reports suggest after the update of the headlines don't go away.

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