one of the checkpoints of the syrian army here in the capital damascus and this is how the clashes started while official sources and this is something we're hearing from local media here in damascus is saying that that has been a terror attack organized by the rabble so again it's very hard to establish the truth but one thing is absolutely clear damascus. fifteen months of the conflict here in syria has most of the time remained under the governmental forces control but what we have seen now is that the rebels are trying to indeed bring the fight straight to. door to achieve their goal which is obviously. change been three days over these things the news of all the second massacre. of the massacre the second message in the last two weeks emerged but so far there is nuclear and distended in what happened who was behind the killing in the village in

the central province of hama and actually how many people died they've been hopes that the more interest will be able to shed light on the incident on friday finally managed to make to the scene of the massacre but what we're hearing from them. is that the site has been cleared and they've only discovered some traces and evidences of clashes and recent fighting such as current and destroyed houses last massacre in the village of pool was used by the free syrian army the biggest and the most well armed opposition group here in the region as a pretext to withdraw from the international approved cease fire and to resume military operations against the government of course is what we are still seeing diplomatic diplomatic efforts to. this conflict here in syria russia so committed to the u.n. peace. planned and is now actively pursuing they are now backed idea of setting up

an international group how to mediate a solution and this is something that nations back in rad also including the who has a strongly criticizing as they have already this kind of international group friends of syria but they only deal with the opposition so as we can see the world is also divided and there is a lot of confusion not only inside syria but also outside on how to act on syria and how to end the violence here in the country three financial reporting there now a prominent british journalist who has just returned from syria claims rebels set him up to be killed by the syrian army sounds and from channel four news described terror t. what he calls a stunt pulled by opposition fighters in order to deal a propaganda blow to the assad regime. we would get it. out of the way which they knew the rebels you would. go with go down the route

which looked dangerous to us but we trusted them that we would go down the route. we turned them down the road was blocked but with a robot. there was nobody around at that point to court to do the big come around in a pretty. one room and we thought it would definitely be dangerous situation i'm sure you know down but i did it deliberately my point. was that you don't know very clever to work with any journalist. syrian army are going to be calling go again. so the motivation for the rebels from my dad it's. very obvious you know this is the war these things will be be done. well to get all the latest updates on the conflict in syria you can head to our website r.t. dot com so let's have a look at what else is online for you today. they are out of nato so for says in

afghanistan personally apologizes for the deaths of eighteen civilians in afghanistan over half of them women and children publicly acknowledging their killings for the first time. if you arrest real presence or a failed missile launch and find out what is really saw in the air skies are to dot com. the new russian law increasing fines for people taking part in protests that violate public order comes into force today demonstrators could now face penalties of more than seven thousand euros russia's opposition has been bubbling with indignation ever since parliamentary elections in december last year but as jake agrees now reports it's unclear whether they can keep the momentum alive apart from their dislike of the man at the helm. it's been dubbed moscow's take on the globe

who you calling movement. in america canada and around the globe we've seen protesters bedding down in their thousands here they've never quite reached those numbers for the people needed to do these because most of them just come to us in the weekends and in the evenings fair with the support and a continual game of cat and mouse with the city's police has taken its toll it's all keep our style protest in moscow was only started up a short time ago it's already is the poor seems to be dwindling but those with a come out and visibly show their support numbering fewer and fewer we're talking about tens rather than hundreds more often than not and what's left is a hardcore few struggling to keep this movement alive like occupy elsewhere this has been organized online and epitomized by their encampment but that's about where

the similarities end rather than demonstrating against perceived social inequality this is principally about one man in charge president vladimir putin is a stance that has won them support spurred by the backlash from disputed parliamentary elections but it's a faction that has little else to agree on with conglomerated fusion of very different political forces will have national socialists already called bolsheviks here a lot of people who just don't want to look some people just want to have a party or so in this case when you have this fusion of very different political forces it's next to impossible for them to. have any demands symbolized by white ribbons the movement survived nearly half a year with mass peaceful demonstrations initially grabbing the public's attention hard to ignore some electoral reform has followed. but more recently the efforts to

be marred by violence leading to a change of tactics swapping classes for camping the stage sit ins to reach after tweet but activist alexina valmy arrests have followed but many don't see the police as the real threat to the movement's longevity of a civic just examples of a leader is always required says without a leader any movement is doomed to fail or there is a unique situation where there was as there is presently no leader here than in my hands i would need to report first and i have not seen any leader of that i can vote for myself but i hope that this movement will result in the birth of a new smart balanced and you can do the leader of their development as a movement is something many will be watching intensely currently it still ranks in its infancy finding its feet but to convince a nation let alone support is more than tents and twists it will be needed if you greece must go. so i have for this hour here in our shooting in the city find out

why an unlikely hobby has taken the big apple by storm and has women flocking to the shooting range in droves. do you trust your bank. i do so what do you trust about them the mortgages they're investing in or know well know. the derivatives market well know what's going to happen only god knows that. i do think god has his money in a bank god is smarter than that. and how do you save your money for a rainy day by the war in the residential orderly. after sony and security police have branded our t. an enemy of the state our correspondent in the baltics have launched an investigation and decided to get to the bottom of why he was accused of carrying out and stoney and rather rick were the motion comes from and what it really means . my name is alexia artie's eastern european bureau chief reporter now every time i

travel to a story i always enjoy the wonderful hospitality the food and the sightseeing of this baltic country on the journalism point of view over the past several years i've produced several stories on social and economic issues here but i never expected that my reports from a store near would be regarded by some as a threat to national security. every poor to buy the country's security police stated that my last three stories had an anti estonian tone and had nothing to do with the reality that is despite the fact these reports of rising neo nazis and a punitive new language law and the economic problems in the country featured prominent politicians and think tanks we went to the capital tallent to investigate what this was all about finding myself on that list certainly came as a big surprise until i managed to speak to some of the locals who say that being there is nothing out of the ordinary here is andré has also been the victim of the security police for several years now. under a how long have you been on that list

. for three years now and this is connected to my work as a producer for russian channels basically all people who are somehow connected to russia get on this list the police don't do anything bad to only minor things for example last year forty five minutes after i talked to one of our producers on the phone i saw a parking fine on my car's windscreen it had been standing there for more than a year and then i suddenly got a fine among others to be blacklisted were russia's foreign minister almost every russian t.v. news station and a handful of us stoniest or politicians some of whom were in fact jumps to our defense collins mayor said in a statement that accusing r.t. of anti is stony and propaganda made the country a laughing stock we asked his closest political ally parliament member a year on the form as to why they risk their careers and decided to support us when

we do all of us about. why did the mayor and your party try to defend our t. well personally rushed into the car knowledge was not only about your channel we believe this is undemocratic good gives them a right to label the media as safe and unsafe and putting blacks teens in certain people's reputations when i got on the very same list i told my mother about it she's old and she remembers soviet repression very well too upon hearing this news she nearly fainted and i had to call a doctor. to get says i decided to go straight to the security police i was stalled their press officer was out of town but they gave me his telephone number i called and he told me i had to address my questions by email. i did but all i got in response was this it seems that you haven't read our annual

reviews they're public for everyone and the english translations can be found on our web page we have grown used to a stony as officials denying us interview so this response was no surprise i did not receive any explanation neither as to why my work is considered offensive in a store nor what consequences may i face but i along with many a stone years on the blacklist hope that this mystery will soon be resolved with so many questions being asked domestically about the actions of the security police and the country's leadership is now under severe pressure to deliver some answers in the middle of june we're expecting a stony as prime minister to produce a statement explaining the actions of the organizations meanwhile those found themselves on the blacklist in their home country are hoping that this practice will be then abolished looksee russia r.t. reporting from tallinn in a story. and in an hour's time we talk to foreign journalist david robb about examples of how the pentagon put its hands to hollywood scripts and forces

filmmakers to make changes. right here in los angeles a few miles from the u.c.l.a. campus there's a tall building on one entire floor as the film liaison offices of the brink or air force army navy and the coast guard and they sit up there and they and film makers who want military assistance give them their scripts they look at the scripts mark out what they think is they don't want to make suggestions on how to change the scripts to get approval then if they make a deal they sign a contract once they start shooting the film they have a military minder who actually comes on to the set to make sure that it's shot just the way it was agreed to be done and then before it's released to the public it has to be screened in washington d.c. for the generals and admirals i think the american people knew that their films were being. senator by the military in the prescreen for the for the. in washington for the generals and admirals that they would be outraged.

i'm sure all of our got a story or out about this crazy lady with a convertible that. every time she passes. that. has. people. on it is necessary to. everything we do. but it needs to be done nobody wants to be linked to the nazis but the historical. of the american death penalty today in large part from the nazis and the sad part is. their way and they execute him and i won't be allowed to touch him until after

he's dead. and he keeps telling me they can't hear me and they are. blocked. i won't be there i will not witness the killing much wealthier british study done. on time to. go to the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines conjure reports.

in egypt thousands have flooded the capital stock free or square calling for a ban from next week's election runoff feet former prime minister protesters are alarmed by shell fix close ties to the fall regime and the military they believe his candidacy could be a threat to the revolution along the went on to shafiq rallied thousands of activists have marched on to who we are calling for the violence against women a number of assaults on females have risen dramatically since the start of the revolution with her task blaming the military for the attacks human rights activists she will help me says it humans of the revolution are falling short of expectations. i think that definitely people didn't expect to see mubarak's expression minister and minister. and a muslim brotherhood candidate in in the second run for the elections in egypt but

at the same time i did think that we should someone like to have a chip begin this a musket as morsi as corrupted as someone like should take for example the militant council had a huge influence on the the entire process the elections is under their supervision and by saying deaths having any kind of elections with the military council in power in egypt has no difference between having elections before there is motion when mubarak was in. power is still in the military it is integrated in all the institutions of the country and they're definitely part of the sheen so i think that they wouldn't allow he wouldn't allow some revolutionary candidate or someone who is change the status screw to come into power through the elections. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world seven u.n. peacekeepers from this year have been killed in an ambush in ivory coast near its border with liberia they were part of a patrol trying to protect civilians in a remote village it's under stude the group was attacked by

a large number of people was no other details yet it was the first attack of its kind of more than forty u.n. monitors remain in the area the u.n. has had a peace observing mission of the country since two thousand and four to help and it's civil war. riot police in bahrain capital manami off fire tear gas and stun grenades to disperse thousands of anti-government protesters it was the largest demonstration in over a year of ongoing unrest in the island kingdom no casualties have been reported from a clash of shiite led opposition is pushing for greater rights reforms from the country's sunni rulers. a group of russian fans were attacked in the ukrainian city of riot after russia's match with the czech republic the brawl broke out as russian supporters and lurched from the fan zone chanting slogans celebrating their teams for a one victory some of those involved are reported to have been wearing the shirts of the ukrainian national team and broke up the fight and handcuffed one of the

tatars but despite the violence russia has played a great game to the delight of its fans who are now waiting next match on tuesday. the number of female gun owners in the united states has nearly doubled in the past seven years now women in the big apple are joining the craze by spending their free time at the shooting range as main airport now reports the city's firearm frenzies only gaining in popularity. it's a show that defy new york city's ambitious successful female. you're known for there are no law nicks and cosmopolitans. in real life. the latest trend attracting career women of the big apple tops more punch in the sweet cocktails college. shooting in the city we're still let o's and rifles meet and different it's not common but i've been feeling rather do it it's pretty cool actually it's very empowering to think that yeah you know you get a hold of

a gun good group does it it's not really with a man who's westside pistol range has become something of a networking hotspot a place where women from finance law education and many other industries gather to schmooze which grab the. magazine round of ammunition and learn how to fire fifty rounds of bullets from a twenty two caliber semi-automatic rifle to. this growing unconventional trend was first triggered by a new york city social networking group called urban girl squad which organizes for weekly new york city events open to its ten thousand members the last time we did this event and it was sold out immediately like within hours organizer rachel bressler says rifle shooting is one of their most popular events are seeing that women are into care of themselves and being that strong confident women in new york an increasing number of females are not only shooting firearms they're also buying them according to statistics the number of women going to orders in the us has

nearly doubled in the house seven years with an estimated twenty three percent of ladies throughout the country currently packing for the past year the majority of new members of manhattan's shooting range have been women why can you do it why can't i right show me how i'll do it better that's what we're going to see a movement of trigger happy females making firearms something of a new york fashion i said all right but i've done better i'm coming back so i'm going to prove that's my goal. r t new york. and have money makes the world go round when high yield savings rates start dropping we have to save our money a pyre way or simply hide it's our own reservoir for this gauge of pain on the streets of the big apple.

do you trust your bank with your money this week let's talk about that the banks that we have all money on is like they all are doing in swiss francs most of it so all this is like save us currency at the moment in europe so you're feeling pretty good we're on the good side you and you're here in new york laughing at us with their silly dollars not really well. does it compare to your it's getting stronger and stronger i mean i do so what do you trust about the bond markets is there investing in. well no. derivatives market well no i don't trust people to get control volume i mean this is a personal you know. it might be the best business is a personal thing so what's the alternative what can we do about it because i think a lot of people feel that way. put it in your cabinet on the globe or

you get anywhere affected by europe very much our economy follows on what's happened in europe so. exchange rate is not good and the rand is plummeting so we wait for better times does that make you mad at europe as a continent. that's a sign of the times a bunch of german banks just got downgraded i don't know germany supposed to be like the icon of europe like this supposed to be one of the stronger economies are they supposed to be solid there was a post last the storm and so we're not too far off and maybe you're right to not have your money in banks i mean it's secured but when it all breaks down so what's the dollar going to be a way it's paid for i know for a fact that banks are colluding with many different institutions in our country and across the world. how do you feel about that i mad as hell it absolutely it burns the the the core of my being and so what can we do because i think a lot. people feel that way but they don't know what to do well obviously it needs

to come down to a private or local levels what do you then get going to happen i mean it's going crazy all over the world and end in europe things are going much. further. only god knows this. but i do think god has his money in a bank and god is smarter than that no matter how you feel about the economy in general these days the bottom line is it seems like there's less than last you can bank. now coming up is a kind of reform but first i'll bring you the headlines state that's. all.

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welcome back you're watching r t here is a look at the top stories u.n. observers reach the side of the latest massacre in syria but struggled to make sense of what happened while foreign efforts to solve the conflict are stepped up with russia taking moscow wants to create an international conduct route to mediate peace plan backed by the u.n. criticized by washington. and the law on tougher fines for protesters violating the . the quarter comes into force today in russia after a lengthy parliamentary debate that demonstrators could face being out of pocket by seven thousand euros or having to do community service or breaking the rules. after being blacklisted by baltic states so cold threats to national security party's reporter investigates what's really behind the motion and what kind of consequences

he could possibly face as he found out it doesn't take much to become branded anime but the story. that's next stacey expose the dark secrets of the global financial industry. by max kaiser this is the kaiser report cognitive dissonance trying to hold two opposing views in your mind at the same time and get knowledge of the weather that i'm not just talking about barack obama stacy ever tell me more macs you talk about by cell by cell on the by are on the cell or on the cell or right that's coming up next but first i want to say france hits back at obama over europe debt crisis so you know obama was on the campaign trail and blamed everything high unemployment for catastrophe a national.