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 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 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 big 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 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 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 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 currington 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 we are still seeing diplomatic diplomatic efforts. this conflict in syria

russia so committed to the un peace plan and is now actively pursuing a and back idea of sense enough an international group to mediate a solution and this is something that nations back in raggles including being raza strongly criticizing as they have already kind of international 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. a prominent british journalist who's just returned from syria claims rebels set him up to be killed by the syrian army alex thomson from trial for news describe to our team what he calls a stunt pulled by opposition fighters in order to deal in a propaganda blow to the assad regime. we would deliberately out of.

a way which they the rebels you would. kill with go down the route which looked dangerous to us but we dropped them that we would go down the route. we turned and down the road will blow up with a robot if. there was nobody around and about forty four to do that of the vehicle around it it's pretty far as i heard one room. right there were definitely . dangerous situation i'm in no doubt they did it deliberately my calling to journalists. because you don't have to be very clever to work out of a major. syrian army are going to be an appalling bro again. so the motivation for the rebels will come find out it's. very obvious you know this is the war these things will be begone. to get all the latest updates on the

conflict in syria you can head to our website r.t. dot com let's have a look at what else is online for you know. the head of nato forces in afghanistan personally apologize us for the deaths of eighteen 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 holly in their skies on our t.v. dot com. well it's either seven thousand euros or community service that's what russians will now be slapped with for violating public order at a demonstration president putin who signed the 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 jacob grieves reports it's unclear whether they can keep their momentum alive. it's been dubbed. the global movement. in america canada and around the globe we've seen protesters bedding down in their thousands here it never quite reached those numbers for good will need to do these because most of them just come to us in the weekends and in the evenings with the support and continued game of cat and mouse with the city's police has taken its toll is old style protests that moscow is only sauce up a short time ago it's already is the poor seems to be dwindling with those with a come out some visibly show their support though bring fewer and fewer we're talking. about tens rather than hundreds more often than not and what's left is

a hard core few struggling to keep this movement to life like occupy elsewhere this is being organized online and appear 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 her conglomerated fusion of very different political forces will have national socialists will have a radical bolsheviks with a lot of people who just don't want to go 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 survive 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 for camping the stage sit ins to reach after tweet from an activist alexina valmy arrests have followed and many don't see the police as the real threat to the movement's longevity of a city just examples and leader is always your client says without a leader any movement is doomed to fail there is a unique situation higher than what it is there is presently no leader here than in my hands i would need to report first 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 u.k. to 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 convince

a nation. that intends into it it will be needed if you grieve lost. and still have for you this hour shooting in the city find out why an unlikely home being taken the big storm has women flocking to the shooting range in droves and do you trust your bank. i do know what do you trust about the mortgages they're investing in. well you know. the derivatives market well no one's going to be only 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 a rainy day find out more in the residence shortly. after stoney and security police have branded our t. and enemy of the state our correspondent in the baltics arctic say at

a show of ski has launched an all out investigation he decided to get to the bottom of why he was accused of carrying out and stonie and rhetoric where the motion comes from and what it really means. my name is alexi harris asking him to his 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 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 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 to holland 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. and the 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 people who are somehow connected to russia get so in 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 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 to find him among others to be blacklisted were russia's foreign minister almost every russian t.v. news station and a handful of us stoniest politicians some of whom were in fact jumps to our defense

collins mayor said in a statement that accusing r.t. of anti a stone in propaganda made the country a laughing stock we asked his closest political ally parliament member to get on the. home as to why they risk their careers and decided to support us. why did the mayor and your party try to defend r t while personally rushing to the canal it was not only about your can we believe this is undemocratic 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 the very same list i told my mother about it she's old and she remembers soviet oppression very well on hearing this news she nearly fainted and i had to call a doctor. to get on 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 e-mail.

which. 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 either as to why my work is considered offensive in a stone nor what consequences may i face but i along with many a stone 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 those found themselves on the blacklist in their home country are hoping that this practice

will be then abolished looks to russia r.t. reporting from tallinn in a story. and later on we talked to a former journalist david rawle about examples of how the pentagon put its hands to hollywood scripts and forces filmmakers to make changes. or right here in los a it was a few miles from the u.c.l.a. campus there's a tall building on one entire floor as the film liaison officers of the marine corps 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 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 admirals i think the american people knew that their films were being sent to thais by the military and then prescreen for the for the. in washington for the generals and admirals that they would be outraged. right at sixteen minutes past the hour and in egypt thousands have flooded at the capitals to where square calling for a ban from next week's election runoff of ahmed shafik mubarak's former prime minister protesters are alarmed by chef weeks close ties to the fallen regime and the military they believe his candidacy could be a threat to the revolution along with the end. of dozens of activists have marched on top where calling for the end of 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 ashima helmi

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 ex minister over v.a. ssion and a muslim brotherhood candidate in in the second run for the elections in egypt but at the same time i don't think that we should code someone like a which if it in the same bus as morsi they're not as corrupted as someone like shit for example the military council has a huge influence on the the entire process the elections is under their supervision and icing that's having any kind of elections with the military council in power in egypt has no difference between having elections before there is mention with workers in power still the military is integrated in all the institutions of the country and they're definitely part of the work switching so are i saying that they wouldn't allow they wouldn't allow some resolution a candidate or someone who is changing the status scoop to come into power through

the elections. some world news in brief for you this hour so even the un peacekeepers from not sure how been killed in an ambush in the ivory coast near its border with liberia they were part of a patrol trying to protect civilians in a remote village it's understood the group was attacked by a large number of people with 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 peace observing mission in the country since two thousand and four to help end its civil war. riot police in bahrain's capital amman amahl fired tear gas and stone remains to disperse thousands of anti-government protesters it was the largest demonstration in over a year of going on in the island kingdom no casualties have been reported from the clash the shiite led opposition is pushing for greater rights and reforms from the

country's soon i rulers. a group of russian fans who were attacked in the ukrainian city of revolt right after russia's match with the czech republic a brawl broke out as russian supporters emerged from the fan zone chanting slogans celebrating their team's four to one victory some of those involved are reported to have been wearing the shirts of the ukrainian national team police broke up the fight and handcuffed one of the attackers but despite the violence russia had played a great game to the delight of its fans who are now awaiting the next match on tuesday. scores of people are expected to walk out later today in major cities across india in protest against internet censorship in the country the move was organized by anonymous operation india a branch of the global hacking group new delhi based activist durai believes the

tactics of the anonymous are similar to any kind of peaceful demonstration. what we're trying to achieve is that we are trying to reach out to the government of india and to tell them actively that this ban this censorship that they have put up on the whole country is unacceptable because millions and millions of people are getting affected by it this thing that that is widely referred to as hacking is not done by the anonymous group. anonymous does is something known as distributed denial of service which is known as the d.d. o. s. according to the two thousand and eight amendment of this bill this has this is this has been viewed as an offense but according to us i don't think it is just a normal protest when when people are protesting they're going they're going and they're sitting in front of the offices of the organization or you know they're

blocking access to various functions of the of the government that is why what is happening it's just it's just a peaceful protest. the number of female gun owners in the us has nearly doubled in the past seven years now women in the big apple are joining the cranes spending their free time at the shooting range and as marina reports the city's firearm frenzy is only gaining in popularity. it's a show that defy new york city's ambitious successful female. is known for their no 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 were still let o's 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 it's something that yeah you know you get ahold of

a gun who does this not really that many times 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 with. a magazine or 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 girl squad 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 this

six the number of women who are no winners in the u.s. has nearly doubled in the house here with an estimated twenty. leave the country. for the past year the majority of new members that manhattan's shooting range have been women like her and he too would like them very right show me how i would do it better that's what women see a movement of trigger happy humor making firearms something of a new york fashion i did all right but i've done better i'm coming back so i'm going to prove that. r t me york. and money makes the world go round when high yield savings very start dropping do we have to save our money the pirate way or simply hide it in a sock our own resident laurie hoffman is 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 you're here in new york laughing at us with their silly dollars not really well. compared to the 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. 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 had it on the globe or

you got me we are affected by europe very much our economy follows on what's happened in europe's. exchange trying to 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 a kind of europe like this supposed to be one of the stronger economies this must be solid there was supposed to last the storm and 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 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 a mad as hell it absolutely 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 it obviously it

needs to come down to a private or local levels what do you think of going to have been i mean it's going crazy all over the world in the end in europe things are going much. further. only god knows this. but i do think god has his money in a bank god is smart and. 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. and then a few minutes our special report we look into the legacy of nuclear bomb explosions but before that i recap of today's top stories stay with us.

war. many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake especially a lot of weapons on hair trigger alert. us of a difference to use it. all but you know if you keep spending a trillion dollars a year on weapons of venture you're going to blow everybody you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't wake up to. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war and this second sound is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today.

more news today. flared up. these are the images cold world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations are all today.

thanks for joining our team at half past the hour here's a quick recap of your headlines you want to observers reach the side of the latest massacre in syria but struggle to make sense of what happened while foreign efforts to solve the conflict are stepped up with russia taking a leave moscow wants to create an international contact group to mediate police a plan vaster by the u.n. but criticized action temp. a new law on tougher fines for protesters of violating public order comes into force today after a lengthy parliamentary debate now demonstrators could face being prompted by seven thousand euros or having to do community service for breaking the rules. and after

being blacklisted by a baltic states police as a so-called threat to national security reporter investigates what's really behind the motion and what kind of consequences he could possibly face and coming up next it's a weapon that endangers our very existence yet some countries choose to boost their nuclear arsenals instead of fighting for peace. the nuclear age is over sixty years old richard pretty cookie guy can describe exactly how an underground test was done and no through every one zero or more you couldn't hear anything about there was no noise at all on the ground lifted up. we live under the threat of increasingly sophisticated weapons. in two thousand one hundred eighty eight states parties to the nonproliferation treaty.