technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got this huge earth covered. when 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. a new law and tougher fines for protestors violating public order comes into force today 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 the baltic states police as a so-called threats to national security party's reporter investigates what's really behind the motion.

this is r.t. coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie 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 now reports. damascus last night has been hit by war some have been described as the heaviest fighting between the rebels the opposition the opposition and the governmental forces we've been do you been hearing sounds of explosions and how we shall ings 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 it 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 are saying that that aid 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 it's been three days over these things the news of 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's happened who was behind the killing in the village

in the central province of hama and actually how many people died there's been hopes that the u.n. more interest will be able to shed light on the incident on friday finally managed to make aides 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 burnt and destroyed houses the last massacre in the village of houla was used by the free syrian army the biggest and the most well armed opposition group a year in the region as a pretext to we've drawn 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. these conflict areas here in

russia so committed to the u.n. peace plan and is now actively pursuing and back idea of such an hour an international group to mediate a solution and this is something that nations back in raggles including the u.s. has a 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 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 reve national reporting there a prominent british journalist has just returned from syria claims rebels set him up to be killed by the syrian army alex thomson from channel four news described doherty what he calls a stunt pulled by opposition fighters in order to deal propaganda blow to the ousted 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 and down the road was blocked that was a road built because they had to have known was that there was nobody around and at that point moved close to doing it and the big all around in a forty five and one round was was jouni thought they were definitely exposed to dangerous situations and i you know i'm certainly no doubt they did it deliberately like pointed 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 for president assad so the motivation for the rebels to pull is somebody that is it seems to me is very obvious you know this is a war these things will be be done. now to get all the latest updates on the conflict in syria you can had to our website r.t. dot com so let's have a look at what else is on the line for you today for him out of nato forces in

afghanistan personally apologizes for the deaths of eight hundred civilians in afghanistan over half of them women and children publicly acknowledging their killings for the first time. extraterrestrial presence or a missile launch find out what israelis saw high in their skies on our t.v. dot com. it's either seven thousand euros or community service that's what russians will now be slapped with for a violating public order at a demonstration president bush has signed a bill into law yesterday says it's aimed at shielding citizens from radicalism and is in line with european norms russia's opposition has been getting more vocal over the past months but as jake agreed reports it's on

a clear whether they can keep their moment of alive. it's been dubbed moscow's take on the globe who occupy a movement but lost 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 where 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 starting up a short time ago it's already is the poor seems to be dwindling for those with to 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 appeared to minds 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 him i can go on the rate of fusion of very different political forces will have national socialists have already called bolsheviks 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 these fusion or 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 of the marred by violence leading to a change of tactics swapping classes for camping the stage sit ins to greet after tweet by prominent 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 and a leader is always required as without a leader any movement is doomed to fail there is a unique situation here though as there is presently no leader here. why would you do it of course 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 smart balanced and you candid leader 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 tense and twists it will be needed to

greece must go. now so i have for this hour here on our team shooting in the city you know why likely hobby has taken the big apple by storm and his woman walking to the shooting range in droves and do you trust your bank. i do though what do you trust about them the mortgages they're investing in. well know. the derivatives market well now what's going to have the holy god knows that. you think god has his money in a bank god is smarter than that. and how do you save your money for the new day find out more and the resident shortly. after estonian security police have branded r t an enemy of the state how correspondent in the baltics always here cesky has launched an investigation he decided to get to the bottom of why he was accused of carrying out into

a stony 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 story i 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 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 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 capitol tallent to investigate what this was all about. now 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 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 those only minor things for example last year forty five minutes after i talked to one of our chief 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 jumped to our defense attorneys mayors 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 but when we deal of. why did the mayor and your party try to defend our t well post new washington acknowledge it was not only about your can we believe this is undemocratic good gives them a right to label the media as safe and unsafe and putting black stains and 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 this is i decided to go straight to the security police i was told 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 e-mail.

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 interviews so this response was no surprise i did not receive any explanation neither as to why my work is considered offensive in a stone 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 stoniest prime minister understand to produce a statement explaining the actions of the organizations meanwhile there was a stony as we found themselves on the blacklist in their home country are hoping that this practice will be then abolished let's see russia. reporting from tallinn in a store. and in fifteen minutes time we'll talk to

a foreign journalist david robb about examples of how the pantheon 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 layers and offices of the brink or air force army navy and the coast guard and they sit up there and they filmmakers who want military assistance give them their scripts they look at the scripts mark out what they think is they don't want and 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. sanitized by the military and then prescreen for the for the wash in

washington for the generals and admirals that they would be outraged. wealthy british style some time to.

market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines in two cars a report. if you're followed up on my sil going to the. chinese on a sort of a twelve pack and i can talk about long. it goes back to a time when people would light out of their forces in the wild west and pick up these fugitives important into the sheriff from prosecution go looking like company may well feel guilty. when they go out there he's got weapons. and you have to hope that nothing bad can. do it. but we're chasing killers and you gotta keep that. mind what is it to mean dollar

bill please let's. not superhero we can be killed too you know they shoot me in the head i'm going to die. and. once you hundred minute i never go back to know anything else. you want your teen age of thousands half lot of the capital stuff for your square calling for a ban from next week's election runoff feet hosni mubarak's former prime minister protestors are alarmed by shafiq close ties to the fallen regime and the military and they believe his candidacy could be a threat to the revolution along with shafiq rally dozens of activists have marched on talk we are calling for the ana violence against women the number of assaults on females have risen dramatically since the start of the revolution with protesters blaming the military for the attacks human rights activist she mahdi army says the achievements 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 code someone like a which if it in the same musket as morsi as corrected as someone like should see for example the milter council has a huge influence on the entire process the elections is under their supervision and icing deaths having any kind of elections with the military council in power in egypt has no difference between having elections before there is motion with workers in power still the military is integrated into all the institutions of the country and they're definitely part of the works machine so i think that they wouldn't allow he wouldn't know some revolutionary candidate or someone who is going to change the status quo to come into power through the elections. now as we go to some other stories from around the world seven u.n.

peacekeepers from the share have been killed in an ambush in ivory coast near its border with libya area and they were part of a patrol trying to protect civilians in a remote village understand the group was attacked by a large number of people was no other details yet it was the first attack of its kind and more than forty u.n. monitors remain in the area the u.n. has had a piece of serving 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 now casualties have been reported from the clash and shiite led opposition is pushing for greater rides of reforms from the country's sunni rulers. a group of russian fans were attacked in the city of volved right after russia's match with the czech republic the brawl broke out as

russian supporters emerged from fan zone chanting slogans celebrating their team's victory some of those involved are reported to have been wearing the shirts of the ukrainian national team police broke up the fight and and cuffed one of the attackers. all right despite the trouble among the fans it was a beautiful game of football and yet it is here to tell us all about it very much was a beautiful game from a russian point of view marina it's been a long couple of years for the since the last football championship the world cup we've started euro two thousand and twelve it's all going on from a russian point of view because as you can see on your screen that was the game against the czech republic on friday night the one for one not too many people expected richard portrayed is going to update us in sports today in around twenty minutes all not a minute after that kate partridge who's in ukraine for us with davis on the group b. so me and group of death who are huge european teams going into action tonight somebody's

got it so that's all ahead within the next twenty minutes. all right here and thanks very much indeed let's now take a look at some of the stories the number of female gun owners in the u.s. 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 has made a board now reports the city's firearm frenzy is only gaining in popularity. it's the show that defined new york city's ambitious successful female you're known for their minola blog knicks and cosmopolitans. in real life. the latest trend attracting career women of the big apple pops more punch in the sweet cocktails call it shooting in the city we're still let those and rifles meet and different it's not common but i've been fairly quiet and i rather do it it's

pretty cool actually it's a very empowering thing that yeah you know you get a hold 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 were out 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 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 are seeing that women are into 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 statistics the number of women gun owners in the us has nearly doubled in the house seven years with an estimated twenty three percent of ladies across the country currently 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. and 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. new york. and money makes the world go round when high yield savings rates start dropping do we have to save our money the pirate way or simply hide it in a song our own president or 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 all are doing in swiss francs most of it so this is like save us currency at the moment in europe so we're feeling pretty good we're on the good side you and your here in new york laughing at us with their silly dollars not really well. does it compare to the your it's getting stronger and stronger i mean i do so what do you trust about the punk mortgages they're investing in. well no. derivatives market well no i don't trust people they got control of all your mother his sister personal you know. they 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 had it on the globe or you get me we are affected by your a very much our economy follows on what's happened in europe so. exchange right 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 opposed to be one of the stronger economies another supposedly solid there is of course. 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 they way it's paper i know for a fact the 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 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 means to come down to a private or local levels what do you think is going to happen i mean it's going crazy all over the world and in europe things are going much. better. only god knows that. i do think god has his money in a bank. all the smarted and. no matter how you feel about the economy in general these days the bottom line is it seems like there's less and less you can bank. bali than clary shortly with an update of our top stories stay with us. home.

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