in central syria not far from the city of hama and after that allegedly prove. 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 how well these videos contain bodies that by all appearances. died yesterday raising many questions on the military and the truth of their positions claims than 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 village the army has been stationed in this 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 official. 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 just so 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 investigation right now is to go to just simply impossible to establish who was behind this massacre. despite the two surrounding the home are killing some western reporters have made their own conclusions with some leaders immediately blaming president assad for detroit city and once again calling for action against his regime. has more on that. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has made comments saying that syria will not be peaceful in toll. bridge 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 over at the united nations in new york 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 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 joint special envoy kofi annan who is also at the united nations has said that he must be frank that the plan that he put together the six point peace plan that calls for many things but most importantly ceasefire is not being implemented mr anon said that the international community must act very swiftly before the circumstance in syria gets any worse he also said you know lateral action or intervention into syria without a 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 a few hours. krista who still has been covering events in the region so there are strong indications the homeless it was. when the terrorists you know called off the peace plan that was a 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

qatar. turkey is involved people you know fighters come over the border from jordan from lebanon from iraq from turkey and that in fact heats up the situation very much and there are kinds of media lies the most recent where we hear that eighty people were killed in a massacre where the same resistance group you know publishing this said a little later that there were just fifty and that it was twenty four this was the german radio and in fact the government says it was nice but the killing was done by the terrorists and i think there is believe bill and the other things are lies the usual lies we hear since the year. or more hot on the situation in syria on our website including the theory that the timing of the latest report a massacre in hammer was no coincidence. we explore how some of the president's a ball really being used in the past to justify military intervention in foreign

countries bypassing the u.n. . don't call. russia's kremlin is backing it runs dry for a peaceful atomic program came during central asia regional security summit in beijing spearheaded by russia and china at the event president vladimir putin met with the leaders of afghanistan and iran two nations which often divide opinion in the west and actually had a shift this report. mahmoud ahmadinejad. 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 with all 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 in the still there so russia certainly wants to play a very important role in bringing this country to peace. we're always interested in

your thoughts and opinions on the stories we're covering at the moment here and party dot com our web site were asking what you think of the reasons behind russia stepping up its military chinese with china some of the results on the screen 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 we can see there to keep tabs on china's growing military might and to gain more leverage in the un security council it did for me already done so join the vote at r.t. dot com. it was the birthplace of the egyptian revolution but tahrir square reputation is now being tainted by a sinister trend activists say female protesters are being increasingly subject to developments in sexual abuse and arming incidents that some say reflects a much bigger social and cultural problem. reports on the plight of the gyptian women who fear that instead of freedoms promised by mubarak's fall they may be

facing an even darker future. when this objection woman 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 is 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 there are still a little bit again as to having women with them side to side in the 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 life of women actually water

i'd like my do 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 true 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 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 around 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 agreed the rules of the constitution first. broke the rules for women and where and we were. do what

is right out of the gyptian. these clues tour of a card one women's rights kid risk egypt's new modern democracy becoming a terrifying three back to the past age is a female oppression now here is it again i'm from zero point again which is very frustrating because usually after of russians you feel that you're going to gain the political revolution in egypt maybe in full flow but the cultural one it seems could be just getting started sir. the timeline of the time on in egypt can be found on our website there's plenty more there for you including a blaze on a nuclear submarine in miami may make it into the record books as the most costly far caused by a household appliance find out more and more to you don't come. plus scientists say

that stone age artists may have been using animation techniques in their caves or in creating the impression of moving animals. live here in moscow coming up to forty minutes past the hour the nicaraguan government is planning to build a thirty billion dollars into oceanic route that set to challenge the panama canal all these business correspondents correspondent daniel bushell brings us now the details. united states opened the panama canal in nine hundred fourteen and it's taken the lawyers share of trade between the atlantic and pacific ever since but now russia plans to build a deeper void to rival through the sun one river it may bring nicaragua but threatens the hugely profitable existing routes and improved waterway it would

attract many firms that currently go through panama also traders increasingly use joint ships that are too big for the existing canal the center of world trade shifting to the asia pacific region and states like china have long wanted an alternative path not dominated by the u.s. but russia may not get the contract the project director says china japan brazil south korea and venezuela are also eager to fund the thirty billion dollar plan will have more of business just off the twenty past the e.u. debt crisis meant big business for italy's math here which has been described as the country's number one lender by an italian anti corruption group struggling businesses a boring money from criminal organization to keep afloat as banks restrict lending during the e.u. crisis economics expert alberto mean gardy says the government's policies are partly to blame for the maffia boom. beginning of march. on each other your economy is particularly strong now because my cash and you've got plenty of small

businesses particularly in the south and in the center of the country that running short of cash and have some kind of relationship with market because they worked for years to buy protection. you made to the mafia as the investor so to say capital and they may go into the black sector for getting money to get out or to show the banking sector due to this is very troublesome and it's a very brutal form that should tell our government we need. to fix some of the problems that are troubling details in a commune pretty easy to do we need to reduce taxation there's still a bit more money available to judge him based this is more legitimate money coming out of cash and not coming out of my income you're not going to see. and later today max kaiser will be looking at the u.k.'s efforts to snake economic ford amid the financial crisis. that police launch 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 the small time economic fraudster is why they got it backwards the federal basti had said a couple of centuries ago and learning at the top began saluting at the bottom if you want to have a link at the bottom there were alluding at the top which means get out of camera and they were born and get rid of mervyn king it's all that happens expect more looting at the bottom and more on the zombie apocalypse. as the european financial rollercoaster continues to bring down economies and government some smaller political parties are getting them most. in the spotlight the pirate party in germany has seen a surge in popularity as people abandon more traditional outfits. assesses the pen

and russians but it may seem like a hollow 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 hijacking their way into mainstream politics parents have become more beautiful landscape in germany that a lot of parties have to take and you already see that are people reacting to the party success story started in doing local elections last september when they surprisingly won newly named percent of votes and 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. policymaking people didn't expect from

a coalition of party. political communication and the kind of a platform for the transport of political protest. the words are all about participation and transparency all members to take part in discussions online and it doesn't seem to matter that so for me submitted to me. in school spyware until cancer be once or that their favorite meeting spot is a bar in they don't have a stance on foreign affairs or the financial crisis and have already made a few mistakes with one senior member comparing their success to the first years of hitler's nazis though he quickly apologized we don't take ourselves so seriously we're not as pumpers as other politicians are we we know that we're human and we make mistakes and he accept that we make mistakes. therefore we have no problems

with saying ok sorry i was wrong germany's national parliamentary election is planned for next year and the pirates are ready for battle just like most young organisations the pirate party of germany is 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. r.t. germany. some other news now making headlines across the world and they create think prosecutors of all of the arrest of a far right member of parliament for his attack. during a live t.v. debate he has custody out is through a glass of water in the face of an m.p. after she brought up his alleged involvement in a mugging case five years ago the t.v. debate came ahead of the country's parliamentary election in ten days from now. hundreds of workers have rioted at the chinese factory foxconn which produces apple devices with dozens of protesters detained employees clashed with security guards

following reports of an attempted theft of the manufacture previously came on the far forcing staff to work excessively long hours for low salaries. and the pretrial hearing for the bradley man. cases taking place at fort meade twenty four year old manning is accused of aiding the enemy by publishing hundreds of classified u.s. cables on the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks the defense plans to call several u.s. state department workers to assess the damage done to american foreign relations by those disclosures. these 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 a wedding ceremony when nato forces launched an air raid on a village in the country's east and once commanders deny the report claiming they only hit taliban fighters on the same day three suicide bombers targeted a market outside a sprawling nato base in kandahar killing twenty two people investigative journalist gareth porter says his activity in afghanistan is only adding to the

civilian death toll. you know this whole problem of u.s. and nato military operations both airstrikes and mate raids is a situation that has caused enormous opposition from the population particularly the southern afghanistan. region of the country to increasingly oppose the presence of u.s. and nato forces and if you look at the chairs of the casualty figures for civilians and you compare them with the level of foreign troops are breeding in afghanistan you can see that there is a direct correlation between the two and because of that. the reason for the 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. that's the way it is at the moment from the news that's now daniels here with the latest business news that the price of oil will collapse daniel if greece does leave the euro that's right the bank of america has just said the price will slide to just sixty dollars a barrel if offense quits investors say that's increasingly likely as protesters against the. grose print is currently over one hundred dollars a barrel of doom and gloom for course that just a worsening global recession will follow the so-called create gregg's it crude prices are boosted by a us indications they may pump extra cash into their economies to boost growth on top of that iran signals it will take a hard line in nuclear talks and the russian. major roles in the fall go to the how more from september the government's announced you could know from morgan stanley

russia told me earlier global invest interest in the assets will be high. these are some of the great companies 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. near the airport largest airport 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. there's all sale next year is also ramping up cooperation with america's exxon mobile new economic school surrogate career says the company is moving in the right direction . i think it's a very good sign that the government today decided that should be privatized i think it's it's a step in that i did actually there is no reason why i 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 here that storm in your bones and we've not seen it is asian happening yet it's a very good sign that it's been on that in the united states ben bernanke is just said the federal reserve stands ready to act to protect the financial system and the economy in the event of financial stresses from the european crisis escalate meanwhile over in europe british premier david cameron is in germany to warn angela merkel that the euro is in the last. saloon he's been pushing for a huge rescue deal to save a failing single currency in the spotlight in particular is spain these banks need at least eighty billion euro to cover bad property loans has just sold another two billion euro of debts but the government admits that too big to bail out by brussels but it also said world markets are now refusing to lend to it for fear they won't be paid back russian markets closed higher today russia's state development bank v.b. says it's ready to support russian equity markets by buying shares moscow has been

one of the world's worst performing this year b.b. hopes to make a profit as for course just stocks will rebound also he wants to reduce volatility the head of the v.b. has said time to check our exchange rates the euro's low against the dollar now when it comes to the ruble it's gaining to the main currencies it finished up against both major currencies today and china has cut its key interest rates for the first time since two thousand and eight the world's second biggest economy is doing it in the ten to two slowing growth the benchmark one year low rate was cut by a quarter of one percent to six point three one percent in addition china's delayed the implementation of tougher bank capital rules and the concerns that they may hurt lending bill in europe today most stories on the web site daniel thanks a lot more for me in an hour from now the new bushell there now in just a few minutes here on out he would talk to the lebanese interior minister to get his take on the turmoil in syria that'll be after a recap of the headlines stay with us live this is r.t. in moscow.

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a listen to what he has to say representatives of our states we must rationally analyze the entire situation and lay down those steps which would make it possible to reverse the catastrophic development of events both in china and the region that much of the present first of all we must acknowledge that a great deal of what has been undertaken regarding the syrian crisis now is not working about the way a policy of unilateral pressure is not working on economic sanctions directed against the massacres are only aggravating the humanitarian situation and are building a possibility among various groups of the population to category demands for an immediate change are simply going you know where it is wrong of you to rely on support of those opposition groups which can find nothing better to do it were then to recall your foreign military interventions in their own country from those in foreign capitals it must be admitted that the deliveries of weapons to groups of

the armed opposition and the financing of this right charity only provides fuel to the fire creating a fertile soil for terrorist activity a so-called third force. russia considers it just categorically unacceptable to have come from a further escalation of the spiral of confrontation of us all and all the more so since the international community has a foundation on which we can all close ranks that is the annan plan supported by the un security council we should we believe that it is counterproductive and dangerous both to have premature forecasts regarding. and the statements of certain syrian opposition groups regarding their refusal to implement now there is a need to agree on practical action. in moving the syrian conflict on to a political level is that what can mobilize their key external players and able to have a real impact on the various syrian partly to do with me and for a coordinated action.