u.n. observers reach the site of the latest massacre in syria but struggle to make sense of what happened to fall international efforts to solve the conflict are stopped all that with russia taking a lead. a new law on tougher follett's for protesters violating public order comes into force today in russia after a lengthy parliamentary debate now 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 archies reporter investigates what's really behind the motion.

and online twenty four hours a day seven days a week this is r t with me karen. we turn our attention to syria where u.n. observers 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 all mable to determine how many died or who's to blame several bomb blast and gun battles have since a ruptured across syria and in the capital damascus from where our correspondent maria financial on the reports. damascus last night has been hit by ward 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 the sounds of explosions and how we shall ngs 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 already as 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 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. traces and 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 they are 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 all we are still seeing diplomatic diplomatic efforts to. the south all these complicated syria russia so committed to the un 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. nations back in raggles 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 a prominent british journalist who's a just returned from syria claims rebels set him up to be killed by the syrian army alex thompson from channel four news described to r.t.

what he calls a stunt pulled by opposition fighters in order to deal a propaganda blow to these saudi regime. we were deliberately led out of that a way which they knew they the rebels knew would. kill the go down a route which looked dangerous to us but we trusted them that we would go down the route. we turned and down the road was blocked that was a roadblock if. there was nobody around and at that point we were forced to do them a vehicle around in a pretty. one round with you really thought it would definitely be dangerous situation i'm in no doubt they did it deliberately my point. because you don't have to be very clever to work out the back of any. of the syrian army are going to be an appalling blow again. so they make you feel for the rebels the pull

of the mind that it's. very obvious you know this is the war these things will be be done to get all the latest updates on the conflict in syria can head to our website r.t. dot com let's now have a look at what else is online for you. they had of nato forces in afghanistan personally apologizes for the deaths of eighteen civilians for half of them women and children publicly acknowledging their feelings for the first time. extraterrestrial presence or a silent march find out what israelis saw holly 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 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 now reports it's unclear whether they can keep their momentum alive. it's been dubbed moscow's take on the globe you can call a movement almost in america canada and around the globe we've seen protesters bending down in their thousands here and never quite reach those numbers more people need 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 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's alive like occupy elsewhere this is being 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 the server can go on the rate of fusion of very different political forces will have national socialists will have already called bolsheviks 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 effort to be marred by violence leading to a change of tactics swapping classes for camping the stage shootings to reach after tweet activist alexina. arrests have followed and many don't see the police as the real threat to the movies longevity of a city just examples of a leader is always required says without a leader any movement is doomed to fail there is a unique situation where there was as there is presently no leader here than in my hands i would need to progress to 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 the leader of their development as a movement is something many will be watching intensely currently still ranks in its infancy finding its feet its convince a nation let alone supporters all intents and twists it will be needed. just. so have for you this hour shooting in the city find out why an online plea hobby has taken the big storm that has women flocking to the shooting range in droves also do you trust your bank. i do so what do you trust about the mortgages they're investing in wonder well you know. the derivatives market well know what's going to happen only god knows this. do you think god has his money in a bank god are smart and. how do you save your money for any brain day

find out more in the residential right. after stoney and security police branded r t as an enemy of the state our correspondent in the baltics alex had a chef scheme has launched an investigation he decided to get to the bottom of why he was accused of carrying out 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 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 capitol 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 how long have you been on that list . or did you know them for three years 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 has only minor things for example last year forty five minutes after i talked to one of our chiefs were juicers and 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 all politicians some of whom were in fact jumped to our defense tallinn's 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. 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. when i got on a very same list i told my mother about. it and she remembers soviet oppression very well on hearing this news she only 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 either as to why my work is considered offensive in a store nor what consequences may i face but i along with media store news 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 organizations meanwhile 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 later on we talked to a former journalist david about examples of how the pentagon puts its hands to hollywood scripts and forces filmmakers to make changes. but 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 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. senator by the military and then prescreen for the for the. in washington for the generals and admirals that they would be outraged. and in egypt thousands have flooded the capital's tahrir square calling for a ban from next week's election runoff of ahmed shafik hosni mubarak's former prime minister for adjustors are alarmed bhatia fix close ties to the fallen regime and the military they believe his candidacy could be a threat to the revolution along with the anti-ship only dozens of activists have marched on top where calling for the end of 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 activist a shim all 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 an ex minister. 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 chip in the same bus as morsi as corrupted as someone like shit 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 no action when the workers in power still the military is integrated in all the institutions of the

country and they're definitely part of the words machine so i think that they wouldn't allow they wouldn't allow some resolution a candidate or someone who is changing the status quo to come into power through the elections. all right now a look at some world news in brief for you this hour seven u.n. peacekeepers from have 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 as of 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 manami all 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 the shiite led opposition is pushing for greater rights and reforms from the country's a sunni rulers. pakistan's rejected allegations by the u.s. defense secretary claiming it's allowing militants to use its territory to stage attacks on u.s. troops in afghanistan the country's foreign ministry said leon panetta has remarks were misplaced and unhelpful in bringing about peace in the region tension between the two countries rose last year. twenty four pakistani soldiers prompting islam a mob to block a nato supply routes to afghanistan. a group of russian fans were attacked in the ukrainian city of a ball right after russia's match with the czech republic the brawl broke out as russian supporters emerged from the fan zone chanting slogans celebrating their

teens forty 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. 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 that's after hackers launched attacks on a number of websites belonging to indian internet service providers claiming that they are censoring the web by blocking access to file sharing websites the move was organized by anonymous operation india that's a branch of the global hacking group new delhi based activist dheeraj bish believes the tactics of anonymous are similar to any kind of peaceful demonstration what we

are trying to achieve is that we are trying to reach out to the government of india and to tell them actively that this bad and this censorship that they have put up on the whole country is unacceptable because millions and millions of people are getting affected by this thing that is widely referred to as hacking is not done by the anonymous group. anonymous does something moon is distributed denial of service which is known as the d.d. o. s. according to the. 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 craze by 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 females who are known for their no low blow nicks 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 were still let o's 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 ahold of a gun who does it it's not really that many times west side 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 semiautomatic 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 this six 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 years.

leave the country. for the past year the majority of new members at manhattan's shooting range have been women why can you do it why can't i. show me how i'll do it better that's what we want women to be a movement of trigger happy hue males making firearms something of a new york fashion i did all right but i've done better i'm coming back i'm going to prove that. r.t. new york. and money makes the world go round when the high yield savings rates start dropping do we have to save our money in the pirate way or simply hide it in a sock resident laurie hofmann as 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 all 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 punk mortgages they're investing in. well no. derivatives market well no i don't trust people they've got control of all your mother his sister personal you know. it might be the best business a personal say so what's the alternative what can we do about it because i think a lot of people feel that way. and put it in your had it on the globe or you got me we are affected by your a very much our economy follows on what's happened in europe's. 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 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. it burns this the the core of my being and so what can we do because i think a lot of 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 happen i mean it's going crazy all over the world and in europe things are going mad.

what's going to happen. only god knows the. do you think god has his money in a bank god is murdered 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 i. and a few minutes and our spotlight program we'll talk to the president of the luxembourg forum on preventing a nuclear catastrophe but first i'm bringing the headlines next tuesday with r.t. .

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