u.n. observers reach the side of the latest massacre in syria but struggle to make sense of what happened while international efforts to solve the conflict are stepped up with russia taking a lead. and you lawn tougher fines for protestors violating public order 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 for breaking the rules. after being blacklisted by a baltic states police as a so-called threat to national security our teams we poor investigates what's really behind the motion.

this is actually coming to you live from moscow with me renay joshie a u.n. observers in syria say they can't confirm the details of the latest massacre in the country the monitors have investigated the scene of the killing but are unable to determine how many died or who's to blame several bomb blasts and gun battles have since erupted across syria and in the capital damascus from where our correspondent ari fleischer now reports. damascus last night has been hit by war some have been described as the heaviest fighting between the rebels the opposition the armed opposition and the governmental forces we've been deep been hearing sounds of explosions and heavy shelling and separate shootings for several hours nonstop and as it's become normal for the syrian conflict we've been hearing conflicting reports on exactly what happened and why this occurred the london based syrian observatory for human rights have been saying that the rebels before it all started

organized a really huge anti government rally and then attacked 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. regime change it's 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 no clear 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 have been hopes that the u.n. and 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. traces of evidences of clashes and recent fighting such as burnt and destroyed houses last massacre in the village of houla was used by the free syrian army the biggest and the most well armed opposition group payer 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 we are still seeing diplomatic diplomatic efforts to. this conflict here in syria

russia so committed to the u.n. peace plan and is now actively pursuing and back idea of certain are an international group to mediate a solution and this is something. nations back in radicals including the raza strongly criticizing as they have already 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 the reason 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 where you can actually reporting there a prominent british journalist who's just returned from syria claimed to be killed by the syrian army alex thomson from channel four news described r t what he calls a stunt pulled by opposition fighters in order to deal a problem than a blow to the assad regime. we were deliberately led out of that town away which they knew they the rebels knew were dangerous they told us go down

a route which looked dangerous to us but we we trusted them and we said that we would go down the road and we turned them down the road was blocked that was a roadblock because they had to have known was that there was nobody around and at that point we were forced to do it in the vehicle around in a free fire zone and one round was was jouni fired there were definitely posed a dangerous situation and i am still in no doubt they did it deliberately like pointing dates generalized bad damascus and you don't have to be very clever to work out but the best of any journalist of the syrian army are going to be an appalling again president is that so the motivation for the rebels to pull a stunt like that is it seems to me is very obvious you know this is a war these things will be be done. well to get the latest updates on the conflict in syria i can had to our website r.t.

dot com so let's have a look at what else is on line for you. here out of nato forces in afghanistan personally apologizes for the deaths of eight hundred civilians in afghanistan over half of them a women and children publicly acknowledging their killings for the first time. extraterrestrial presence or and missile launch find out what israelis saw their skies on r.t. dot com. well people who want to vent their anger during public protest in russia could now face a hefty fine either seven thousand euros or community work president putin who signed the bill into law yesterday says it's aimed at shielding citizens from radicalism and is in line with the european norms russia's opposition has been bubbling with

indignation ever since parliamentary elections in december last year but as jacob graves now reports it's unclear whether they can keep the momentum alive far from their dislike of the man of the help. it's been dubbed moscow's take on the globe who occupy movement. in america canada and around the globe we've seen protesters bending down in their thousands here it never quite reached those numbers more people needed to do these because most of them just come to us in the weekends and in the evenings there were 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 for those with to come out some 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's alive like occupy elsewhere this is being organized online and appear to mines 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 the rate of fusion of very different political forces will have national socialists already called bolsheviks with a lot of people who just don't want to go or 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 clashes fit camping the stage shootings to reach tweet activist alexina. arrests have followed and many don't see the police but the real threat to the movement's longevity never seem to disagree on the leader is always your word says without a leader any movement is doomed to fail or there is a new situation where there was just as there is presently no leader here in my hands i would need to report first and i have not seen any leader that i can vote for myself but i hope that this movement will result in the birth of a new a smart balanced and you can do it leader of their development as a movement is something many will be watching intensely currently it still ranks in

its infancy binding its feet it convince a nation let alone. the intense and twit's it will be needed greece must still have for this hour 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 and do you trust your bank. i do so what do you trust about them the mortgages they're investing in. well the home. the derivatives market well know what's going to happen only god knows that. i do think god has his money in a bank but gold is smarter than that. and how do you save your money get a rainy day find out more and the resident there we shortly here in our. before the after is stony and security police have branded our t.

and me of the state of correspondent in the baltics. has launched an investigation and he decided to get to the bottom of why he was accused of carrying out and i stoney and rhetoric where the motion comes from and what it really means. my name is alexi your team is eastern european bureau chief reporter now every time i travel to a stone you always enjoy the wonderful hospitality the food and the sightseeing of this baltic country from 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 nya 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 estonian tone and had nothing to do with the reality that is despite the fact these reports and 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. i 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. and they and they how long have you been on that list. do you know 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 was only minor things for example last year forty five minutes after i talked to one of our. 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 find among others to be blacklisted were russia's foreign minister almost every russian t.v. news station and a handful of us stoniest all politicians some of whom were in fact jumps to our

defense tallinn's mayor said in a statement that accusing r.t. of anti stonie and propaganda made the country a laughing stock we asked his closest political ally parliament. as to why they risk their careers and decided to support us. why did the mayor and your party try to defend r t well post new russian telecom the list was not only about your can we believe this is undemocratic i mean what gives them a right to label the media as safe and unsafe and putting black stains in certain people's reputations when i got on a very same list i told my mother about she's old and she remembers soviet repression very well so 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 story nor what consequences may i face but i along with media storm us 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 stoniest prime minister to produce a statement explaining the actions of the organization meanwhile there was

a stone 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. that in an hour's time we talk to foreign journalist david robb about examples of how the panel don put its hands to hollywood scripts and forces filmmakers to make changes. well 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 onto 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 then i think the american people knew that their films were being sanitized by the military and then prescreened for the for the wash in washington for the generals and admirals that they would be outraged. well. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. there hasn't been anything

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to. make your statement to. spread the word. if you plug the story. now egypt in ages thousands have flooded the capitals to hear square calling for a ban for the next week's election runoff ahmad shafi hosni mubarak's former prime minister protesters are alarmed by fix close ties to the fall regime and the military and they believe his candidacy could be a threat to the revolution along with it until shafiq rally dozens of activists have marched on to where you are calling for the violence against women a number of assaults on females have risen dramatically since the start of the revolution with protesters blaming the military for the attacks human rights activists shimada helmi says the achievements of the revolution are falling short of expectations. i think that definitely people do. expect to see mubarak's

expression minister and ex minister of evasion and a muslim brotherhood candidate in in the second run for the elections in egypt but at the same time i do think that we should someone like a which if it in the same bus as morsi as corrupted as someone like shit for example the military council has a huge influence on the entire process the elections is under their supervision and i sing that's having any kind of elections with the military council in power in egypt has no difference between having elections before there is lucian when the work was in power still the military is integrated in all the institutions of the country and they are definitely part of the work switching so i think that they wouldn't allow he wouldn't allow some resolution a candidate or someone who is changing the status scoop to come into power through the elections. now let's take

a look at some of the stories from around the world seven un 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 understood that the group was attacked by a large number of people was no other details yet it was a first attack of its kind and more than forty u.n. monitors remain in the area the u.n. has had a peace observing mission in the country since two thousand and four to help and its civil war. riot police in bahrain's capital manama fired 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 the clash and the shiite led opposition is pushing for greater rights and reforms from the country's sunni rulers. the russian fans were attacked in the iranian city of evolve right after russia's match was the czech republic the brawl broke out as russian supporters emerged from the fan zone chanting slogans

celebrating their team's victory some of those involved are reported to have been wearing the shirts national team police broke up the fight and handcuffed one of the attackers. well despite trouble among the fans it was a beautiful game of football and you can tell us more about the match and yes indeed beautiful it was from a russia point of view anyway four years ago compare and contrast the situation russia went into the european championships losing four one to eventual winners spain but this time around it was for a war against the czech republic as you're seeing on your screens not islands of way of scoring to a very easy win on day one for russia they'll be hoping for a much much more of the of the same as the month progresses in poland and ukraine but for now they're off to a winning start we have more in the next hour in sports today plus the rest of the euro two thousand and twelve.

to other news now the number of female gun owners in the us has nearly doubled in the past seven years how women and the big apple are joining the craze by spending their free time at the shooting range and as marine of ordinary fords the city's firearm frenzy is only gating in popularity. it's the show that define new york city's ambitious successful female soldiers who are known for their know low blow nicks and cosmopolitans. in real life. the latest trend attracting career women of the big apple tops more punch in the sweet cocktails call it shooting in the city we're still letter and rifles meet and different not common but i've been feeling and i rather do it it's pretty cool actually it's very empowering if you think that yeah you know you get ahold of a gun who does this not only 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 would be a magazine round of ammunition and learn how to fire fifty rounds of bullets from a twenty two caliber semi-automatic rifle to do. this growing unconventional trend was first triggered by a new york city social networking group called urban girls club which organizes for weekly new york city events open to its ten thousand members the last time we did this event it was sold out immediately like within hours organizer rachel bressler says rifle shooting is one of their most popular events we're seeing that women are into like taking care of themselves and being that strong women in new york and increasing number of females are not only firearms they're also buying them according to mystics the number of women who are no winners in the u.s. has nearly doubled in the house seven years with an estimated twenty three percent

leave the country park packing heat for the past year the majority of new members that 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 movie. trigger happy few males making firearms something of a new york fashion i said all right but i've done better i'm coming back them going through that's michael. r. t. me your. and money makes the world go round as we know when high yield savings rates start dropping do we have to save our money the way or simply hide it in a sock or resident laurie harshness gauged opinion 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 are. doing in swiss francs most of it so 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. compared to your it's getting stronger and stronger i mean i do so what do you trust about the mortgages they're investing in . well no. derivatives market well no i don't trust people they've got control volume of this is a personal you know. they might be the best business is a personal say 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 had it on the globe or you get me we are affected by a very much our economy follows on what's happened in europe so the. 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 is supposed to be a leg of europe like this opposed to be one of the stronger economies are they supposed to be solid there is a force of 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 to it what's the dollar going to be a way it's paper 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 salute it burns the the the core of my being here 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 think is going to have been i mean it's going

crazy all over the world and end in europe things are going much. better. what's going to happen. only god knows this. but i do think god has his money in a bank. all the smarted and 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 i'm. well coming out shortly here aren't here our progress fog lights were we'll talk to the president of the luxembourg forum on preventing a nuclear catastrophe for that will bring their minds to this.

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