moscow says there is no alternative to the new and on the spur peace plan in syria with both sides to blame for the violence as russia proposes an international conference to resolve the conflict. demonstrators breaking the law now face higher fines and russia as analysts claim the protest movement support and numbers are dwindling also. i never expected that my reports from a store near would be regarded by some as a threat to national security party's eastern europe correspondent investigates why is stoney blacklisted him along with russian t.v. channels and even the country's foreign minister. maria sharapova wins the french open capturing

a career in the grand slam. thank you for joining r t with me karen tara it is seven o'clock here in moscow well moscow says it will not let the u.n. security council sanctions military action in syria foreign minister sergei lavrov has said external players are provoking the syrian opposition to continue fighting despite kofi announce peace plan with the country now on the brink of a full scale civil war or just bitter all over has the details russia wants to see a peaceful solution achieved through negotiations to the situation in syria. rove said russia wouldn't accept any measures put through the united nations that could. he will be interpreted to allow any kind of outside military intervention

sergey lavrov saying that kofi annan six point peace plan was still the only viable option for the government must in syria mustn't be blamed totally for toppling in the country and said that the rebels have some responsibility to shoulder as well the movie when we hear reports of another mess against syria and currently we see such atrocities almost daily for many international media outlets want to put the blame entirely on the syrian government the government of many countries of course responsible for what is happening in the country that we're sure the regime alone is not responsible for this but we see massacres in houla terrorist attacks in damascus and aleppo that have been condemned by the u.n. security council all of these is a result of confrontations that are getting more and more sites of course i mean first of all moral support for the so-called armed opposition some flying it with money weapons bringing militants from neighboring countries into syria. in terms of

what the next step could be for syria where russia features in that circle of rove saying that he wants to see a international conference held to discuss what the international community can do to try and sort things out in the arab state this conference would see the united states the european union as well as the permanent members of the the u.n. security council and also syria's neighbors being brought to the table also it will include countries like iran now saying that when it comes to iran they have to be part of this discussion they were hugely influential with with the syrian government and the countries like the united states have in the past been willing to to discuss and discuss issues with iran when it serves their purpose also secular from saying that countries have been quick to blame the government for massacres that are taken place before. the results of investigations that actually

. have been made public also saying that the syrian people should be the ones to decide their future not any international power if we continue to hear daily accusations against the syrian regime with no backing whatsoever for the focal leaks failed to wait for the results of the investigations by un observers and human rights organizations if we're told that russia needs to just order president assad and everything will be sort of course nothing can be done with such an attitude for our colleagues that's why i say we need responsibility that was one word can ignite a fire that we won't be able to extinguish we cannot be sending daily signals that make the opposition believe that it will receive help just as levy received its so-called how russia is committed to not allowing the situation in syria to end up like the one we saw in libya patrick harris a reporter from the online magazine spiked believes intervention in syria would

only aggravate an already volatile situation. i think it is very important to rule out military intervention to say actually this is the worst possible scenario in terms of allowing the syrian people to decide their own fate yes the situation in syria is horrid at the moment anyone with an ounce of humanity in them will over the last week really be troubled by the massacres that are taking place by the fighting that is taking place but you have to really resist that need jerk impulse to want to try me to be into other countries suffer in conflicts and to say we can just step in and make things better in many situations and this would be the case in syria western intervention would intensify the conflicts and would take to make it far worse than it is now it's always important to bear that in mind when thinking about you know how best to intervene in these conflicts often the best intervention is not to intervene at all. russians violating protest

regulations will now have to pay seven thousand euros or do up to two hundred hours of community service president putin stress the new law is in line with european standards the opposition is planning a so-called million man march next week but it looks like the movement is unlikely to live up to its former glory as artie's jacob groups reports. it's been dubbed moscow's take on the globe who occupy movement. in america canada and around the globe we've seen protests is bearing down in their thousands here it never quite reached those numbers more people need to do these because most of them just come to us in the weekends and in the evenings were the support and continued game of cat and mouse with the city's police has taken its toll this all star protest

the moscow was only started up a short time ago it's already is the court 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 has been organized online and epitomized by their encampment but that's about where the similarities end rather than demonstrating against perceived social inequality this is principally about one man in charge president vladimir putin is a stance that has won them support spurred by the backlash from disputed parliamentary elections but it's a faction that has little else to agree on with silicon born the rate of fusion of very different political forces will have national socialists will have already called 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 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 clashes for camping the stage sit ins to reach after tweet promised activist alexei of only arrests have followed that many don't see the police but the real threat to move its longevity as a city just examples of the reader is always referred to as without a leader any movement is doomed to fail there is a unique situation higher than what is there is presently no leader here than in my hands i wouldn't deliberately 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 belt. and you can do it leader of their development as a movement is something many will be watching intensely currently ranks in its infancy binding feet is convince a nation. building tent on twitter will be needed. just. ahead in the next few minutes hackers who bring down government websites aren't just peaceful demonstrators we speak to an indian activist as the country's internet users hold rallies against internet censorship also trigger happy housewives. after being branded a threat to national security by artie's eastern european correspondent aleksey travel to tallent to try and get an explanation with a number of russian and politicians he was put on

a blacklist by security police after a series of reports about some of the country's policies here's alexei's investigation into the events every time i travelled to a story i always enjoyed the wonderful hospitality the food and the sightseeing of this baltic country from the journalism point of view over the past several years i produced several stories on social and economic issues here but i never expected that my reports from a store would be regarded by some as a threat to national security a report by the country's security police stated that my last three stories had an estonian tome and had nothing to do with the reality that is despite the fact these reports and rising neo nazis and a beauty of a new language law and the economic problems in the country featured prominent politicians and think tanks we went to the capital tal and 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. 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 as 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 where 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-a stony and propaganda made the country

a laughing stock we asked his closest political ally parliament member as to why they risk their careers and decided to support us but with the all of us of us about it now 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 a very same list i told my mother about it 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 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 email ok.

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 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 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. thousands of egyptians flocked to carl's chalker square demanding presidential candidate ahmed shafik that's mubarak's former prime minister be banned from the election runoff next week protesters said they didn't want to be ruled by the military official they also held mock trials for hosni mubarak and all their members of the regime denouncing the verdict in the trial of the former president mubarak was sentenced to life in prison for his role in killing protesters during a popular uprising that toppled the leader last year next week's presidential election will see the ruling military council transfer power to be elected president by july first but human rights activist helmi told r.t. it's unlikely the army will give up control over the country and. i think that definitely people didn't expect to see mubarak's expression minister an ex minister . and

a muslim brotherhood candidates in in the second run for the elections in egypt but at the same time i do think that we should put someone like that shit feet in the same bus as. morsi they are not as corrected as someone like sheffield for example the military council had a huge influence on the entire process. 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 lucian one who work was in power so. the military is and to 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 he wouldn't know some resolution in a candidate or someone who is changed the status coupe to come into power through the elections. and we go after the details of the pentagon's new asia pacific strategy where laid out reports appeared that the u.s.

is going to reopen two of its former bases in the philippines the bulk of america's warships will be permanently deployed to the region by twenty twenty let's now cross live to manila to discuss the issue with her nano ray a secretary general of the political coalition which opposes u.s. president's presence rather in the area thank you for being with us today now the locations once acted as major hobbs for military operations for u.s. forces in the pacific what role are they now going to play well in line with the u.s. strategy of rebalancing their forces the u.s. is seeking more access to these former b. says though they may not be going after formal basing agreements they would have unlimited access to dispersal of these and many other facilities all over the country so that their ships can stop over if you will and be stationed for periods specially during military exercises in this all of this would transform the

philippines into a military outpost that would allow the united states to project its power throughout southeast asia so this is a very bad development as far as we're concerned twenty years after the u.s. beaches for shutdown it seems that the beaches are back although not the formal b.c. agreement but just to seem to functions are there the functions of a military base are there now a serious we know that china has clashed with the philippines on a number of occasions in the south china sea and beijing is unlikely to be happy with this news what reaction can we expect do you think we could see a filipino china conflict sort of boil over. well definitely be the presence the increased presence of u.s. troops would complicate matters between the philippines and china for a stabber like the situation that might be seen as a provocative action it might spark some kind of arms race in the south china sea with the growing number of u.s. warships entering the country so this is this something that the united states has

sought to exploit or in the past few months that the philippines this week when pitted against china the u.s. is now promising some kind of support for the aren't forces modernisation on creating a so-called minimum credit credible defense posture but the end the end result would be more in favor of the u.s. than in the philippines given these arrangements it's the u.s. which is really exploiting and benefiting from this strange story of dispute and at the end of the day the philippines would be on the losing end if tensions thrice between china and the format the venues for resolving the conflict are set aside in favor of an arms buildup in the south china sea now in one of your interviews you said that the philippines is defacto hosting u.s. warships presumably armed with nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction why the need for such a devastating capability. well the u.s. wants full spectrum dominance in the region in which it wants to project its

military power to everyone concerned specially china and under certain agreements with the united states the philippines cannot create a certain whether these warships are carrying weapons of mass destruction or not the philippines explicitly in its constitution has adopted a nuclear free policy it is against the entry of nuclear weapons in our country but at least on the secrecy being used by the united states we can never tell if we are hosting warships with nuclear capability it has been done in the past during the period that the us military beats the us it has admitted that it had stored nuclear weapons in its former basis now it might be doing the same thing again in the guise of visiting ships that are being used to project military power throughout the region now very briefly we are running out of time you have bases in japan and south korea troops in australia and joint military exercises in the region and china is looking increasingly surrounded by washington is the us seeking to provoke

china on purpose i think the us may not be headed for a direct military confrontation with china at the moment but the us wants to contain china wants to encircle china and keep it subservient to us and the states seeing that the us of so many economic and business interests in china it wants to keep china obedient to whatever dictates that you have chosen in ice in store for china so all the treat the allies from japan south korea australia the philippines are being mobilized right now to encircle china and keep it subservient to u.s. dictates and interests all right reinado ras the secretary general of the bonn coalition which opposes u.s. presence in the area thank you. thank you very much so moral news in brief for you this hour a taliban suicide bomber disguised as a woman has blown himself up in eastern afghanistan for french soldiers were killed

in the explosion and five others wounded it was the second deadly assault on saturday against nato forces france plans to withdraw all of its combat troops by the end of twenty twelve two years ahead of the planned pullout agreed by the alliance. a lawyer for the international criminal court has been detained in libya after meeting with gadhafi son saif al islam officials claimed she was trying to deliver documents that they say posed a danger to national security the lawyer is now being questioned under house arrest so you follow islam is accused of his role in the killing of protesters during the revolt that toppled his father. euro zone finance ministers are set to discuss a possible rescue package for spain's beleaguered banks which could ask for help this weekend the international monetary fund says a cash injection of at least forty billion euros is needed however madrid has so

far did nine it will ask for a bailout the eurozone fears spain has troubles and a possible greek exit after next weekend's elections could break up the currency union. forget called tales or treadmills an increasing number of women in new york are taking to the shooting range to let their hair down after a hard day's work and they're also taking their hobby home with sales of guns and pistols to american women doubling in the past few years. story. it's the show that define new york city's ambitious successful female. you're known for their know of law 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 very empowering if something like 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 do. 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 gun owners in the u.s. has nearly doubled in the house seven years with an estimated twenty three percent of ladies throughout 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 women see a movie. trigger happy he mel's making firearms something of a new york fashion i did all right but i've done better i'm coming back then going through that flight on. r t me york. maria sharapova has won the prestigious french open in paris a twenty five year old russian has become only the tenth woman in the world to have

conquered all four majors let's get the details from our sport presenter paul scott paul so where does this victory put the russian star quite simply it puts her in the upper echelons of the greatest players of all time i mean the list is not exclusive to serena williams steffi graf martina navratilova billie jean king i mean literally some of the greatest women to play tennis of all in the history of the sport sharapova is now in that list she's the tenth person as you say to win all four grand slams which of course is the australian open wimbledon the u.s. open and now she can have the french open to that list as well certainly quite a feat but she has struggled with some injuries over the years tell us a bit about that i think what makes this success even more probably enjoyable for sure opera is a couple of years ago i mean she won her first title the age of seventeen in two thousand and four that was wimbledon and it's been a long long time since that two years later she won the u.s. open two years after bout it was the australian open her career was going on a plateau but it has come to a bit of an end in recent years because of as you say the problem she had with her

shoulder she had surgery she had to adapt the way she played and she dropped out of the top one hundred at one stage and dropped to as low as one hundred twenty six in the world and people were genuinely asking serious questions as to whether sure after the to come back and be the player that she once was she's answer those questions and in some stall because it was a dominant display not just today in the final to be sort of ironic in straight sets six three six two weeks she's been very very dominant so do you think that this could signal this major comeback would signal a new era of success in her career i think that's a distinct possibility. if you look at the women's game at the moment since she was last world number one the other thing by the way she'll be number one in the world rankings when they were released on monday so that's a huge achievement for her going into of course the grass court season with wimbledon which starts in a few weeks time but if you look at the last time she was number one in the world eight women have been world number one in the time and it's the talks what has changed one thing times it's been a vacuum there's been a void there's nobody at the top of the women's game who has taken the sport by the

scruff of them and said look this is my i can dominate this with the williams sisters getting to the latter stages of their career maybe it's opening up for sure all right well thank you very much paula scott here with us and you can certainly a join in for the live sports bulletin that will be here in just over an hour in a few minutes and our spot my program will talk to the president out the lock some bar on how to prevent a nuclear catastrophe but first operating the headlines next stay with our.

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