troll cities almost daily many international media outlets want to put the blame entirely on assad the government of any country is of course responsible for what is happening in that country it's not the regime is not solely to blame we see massacres in houla the terrorist attacks in damascus and aleppo that have been condemned by the un security council all of this is a result of confrontations but are receiving more and more outside support firstly moral support for the so-called armed opposition then funding weapons and 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 rob 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 no so 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 discuss issues with the run when it serves their purpose also secular of saying that countries have been quick to blame the government for must because that had taken place before the results of the investigations that are actually being have been made public also saying that the syrian people should be the ones to decide their future not any international power. if we are told that russia simply needs to order president assad around and everything will be sorted and then nothing can be done with such an attitude from our international colleagues that's why i say we need responsibility one. it can ignite

a fire that we won't be able to extinguish we cannot be sending daily signals that make the opposition believe it will receive help just as libya received it could help russia is committed to not allowing the situation in syria to end up like the one we saw in libya. you want to observers in syria continue their investigation into a massacre in the hama province monitors of visited the site of the killings but have not yet determined how many died or who was behind the slaughter patrick he's a reporter from online magazine spiked things outside military action in syria would only aggravate 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 i mean anyone with an ounce of humanity in them would 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 in polls to what the chinese have been into other countries so far 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 potentially 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 school. stay with us here on r.t. still to come in a few minutes anonymous activists staged protests across india against internet censorship. but before we get to the russians violating protest regulations of all out to pay seven thousand euros or perform up to two hundred hours of community service president putin stressed the new law is in the new iraqi law is in line with european standards the opposition is planning

a so-called million man march next week but the movement may not live up to its former glory as artie's jacob green's reports. it's been dubbed moscow's take on the key point movement. in america canada and around the globe we've seen protesters bedding down in their thousands here it never quite reached those numbers more people need to do it because most of them just come to us in the weekends and in the evenings fair with the support and the continual game of cat and mouse with the city's police has taken its toll this protest in moscow was only started up a short time ago it's already is the poor seems to be dwindling with those with to come out and visibly show their support fewer and fewer we're talking about tens 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 epitomized by their encampments 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 the stance that has won them support by the backlash from disputed parliamentary elections but it's a faction that has little else to agree on with the rate of fusion of very do for. political forces will have national socialists will have already called bolsheviks but we have a lot of people who just don't want to go or some people just want to have a party or so in this case when you have this fusion of very different political forces it's next to impossible for them to. have any demands symbolized by white ribbons the movement survived nearly half a year with mass peaceful demonstrations initially grabbing the public's attention

hard to ignore some electoral reform has followed but more recently the efforts of be marred by violence leading to a change of tactics swapping classes for camping the stage sit ins took root after tweet from an activist alexina valmy arrests have followed but many don't see the police as the real threat to the movement's longevity ever said existing gun laws and a leader is always required says without a leader any movement is doomed to fail there is a unique situation here there was and there is presently no leader here than in my are willing to push this 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 kid a leader in their development as a movement is something many will be watching intensely currently still ranks in its infancy finding these feet but to convince a nation let alone their own supporters all intents and twitter will be needed to

grease moscow. after being branded a threat to national security by a stone year artie's eastern european correspondent alexei or shared ski went to tell him to get an explanation or with a number of russian in a story in partition as he was put on a blacklist by security after a series of reports about some of the country's policies or. investigates. 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 capital tal and 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 andrei 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 all people who are somehow connected to russia get on 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 top 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 member on the form as to why they risk their careers and decided to support us when we deal of a. now why did the mayor and your party try to defend r t well personally rushed into the canal 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 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 repression very well too upon hearing this news she nearly fainted and i had to call a doctor. to get says i decided to go straight to the security police i was

stalled their press officer was out of town but they gave me his telephone number i called and he told me i had to address my questions by email. but. 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 the english translations can be found on our web page we have grown used to a stony as officials denying views so this response was no surprise i did not receive any explanation neither as to why my work is considered offensive in a store nor what the consequences may face but i along with 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 in the middle of june we're expecting

a stoniest prime minister to produce a statement explaining the actions of the organization meanwhile those who found themselves on the blacklist in their home country are hoping that this practice will be then a bullish look see russia. reporting from tallinn. well stay with us here on r t coming up surely we ask residents of new york where they feel safe stashing their cash. they're investing in. the derivatives market. or opinions from the heart of the big apple in a minute. as a lot of the olympics are set to start next month we investigate why or for a link to allegations of human rights abuses has been chosen to provide security. but first internet users in india and in india and members of the hacktivist group anonymous have taken to the streets of cities across the country there angered by

laws that banned file sharing websites and almost brought down more than fifteen major sites before the rallies in protest over what they call censorship of the internet one new delhi based activist things there isn't much difference between the hackers and peaceful demonstrators. we are trying to reach out to the government of india and to tell them actively that this. ship that they have put up on the whole country is unacceptable because millions and millions of people are getting affected by sides being banned that is used daily by design to make goods to upload david do it and get in touch with their clients and everything it has become almost impossible for them to conduct their daily business they're losing massive amounts of money and bad whizzing massive amounts of oil but unities so it is a very destructive thing to a man be internet like that this is widely referred to as hiking is not done by the anonymous group what 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. this has been viewed as an offense but it is just a normal protest when people are protesting going and they're sitting in front of the offices of the organization you know they're going to witness functions of the government that is why what is happening it's just it's just a peaceful protest. demonstrators for internet freedom have been upheld in europe as well protesters in germany austria and friends rallied against the controversial counterfeiting trade agreement that aims to curb piracy and protect copyright critics of the proposal say it would harm freedom of expression privacy to come into force acting needs to be ratified by the european parliament a vote is set to take place later this month. spain's finally admitted it needs cash to help its troubled banks after emergency talks with euro zone ministers the country's economy minister said madrid is going to ask for one hundred billion dollars a year alone check that hundred billion euro alone earlier the international monetary

fund recommended forty billion euros crisis strategist gonzalo lira believes spain will simply end up losing its banking sector. spain needs more money spain the country the nation sovereign nation as well as spain's financial sector spain is bankrupt there is no other way to look at it and this is just postponing the inevitable so hard that they have promised a hundred billion euros under bill euro's in order to gain some perspective that was as roughly ten percent of spain's heat i think the notion is to scare the markets into thinking that your p.m.'s can and salvage spain and spain is not a problem i think that the markets are going to realize very quickly that this is a smokescreen i personally don't think that i that this will happen that this hundred billion euros will be just for it over to spain's banks and even if it is it will have some of these things that for all intents and purposes it won't be really any kind of a handout it will be a some sort of hand european nationalization of the special inspector i think all

of this is really a reaction to what is one on on june seventeenth recess for them to have parliamentary elections and it's looking very likely that the greek people will vote against any kind of austerity for the austerity measures out there so i think that the european powers are trying to come up with a way to save face and protect spain from what they perceive is going to be the disaster of next monday. while european banks are struggling to survive we asked people the streets of new york whether it's safe or not to simply stuff the money in the mattress instead of keeping it in a bank or he's already harshness to gauge opinion. do you trust your bank with your money this week let's talk about that the banks that we have no money on it's like they all are doing in in swiss francs most of it so this is like the safest currency at the moment in europe so you're feeling

pretty get on the good side you and you're here in new york lapping at half of that philly 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 . the derivatives market well now. i don't trust people to get control of all your mother his sister personal. 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. we put it in your had it on the globe or you get me we are affected by your it very much our economy follows on what's happened in europe so. i exchange rate is not good and the rand is plummeting so we wait for better times does that make you mad at europe as a continent. that's a sign of the times a bunch of german banks just got downgraded i don't know germany is supposed to be

like the icon of europe like this opposed to be one of the stronger economies that have a supposedly solid there is of course. 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 a 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 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 it 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 not. what's going to happen. only god knows this. do you think god has his money in

a bank. all the smarted and that no matter how you feel about the economy in general these days the bottom line is it seems like there's less and less you can bank. or you can find all the stories we're covering around the clock at our tea dot com here's what's on life you right now anonymous how activists have their sights set on neo nazi here area in front form has been targeted by. i overdrew you should have expected this is the message from the hackers who also erase the nationalist message boards plus. you check out our youtube channel to see how students are now making their protest heard and seen but even half naked demonstrators aren't immune from arrest more on our team doctor. the u.k. government will face questions in parliament over its choice of a company to provide security at the london olympics the firm g four s.

has been linked to allegations of human rights abuses and also operates in the jewish settlements in the west bank and east jerusalem the settlements are considered by the u.k. to contravene international law investigative journalist tony darlings as companies were doubtful reputations use the olympics to whitewash their any i'd like to see a bit of spine from our parliament to say that these are not appropriate people to be doing that while a lot of people involved in the olympics as you probably know who aren't really appropriate such as the dow chemical company who when they bought union carbide really took on the responsibility for the deaths of four thousand people in a gas cloud in india and the maiming of countless more who were poisoned. by the dow chemical company i think there's been a real complete kind of mismatch in this olympics with trying to bring in really a prostitute the olympics and give a lot of these poisonous very profitable and actually very dark nasty companies try

she greenwash for them that is to say to sanitize their images. in them with the olympic event and that is not what the olympics are for starting to look rather more like the thirty six olympics than the good old london nineteen forty eight olympics which were done in a much nicer fashion without all this horrible corporate sponsorship. and u.s. is going to reopen two of its former military bases in the philippines this a week after the details of the pentagon's new asia pacific strategy were laid out with the bulk of america's warships to due to be deployed to the region by two thousand and twenty were not already is secretary general of the bay and political coalition thinks the move could be aimed at china in line with the u.s. strategy of rebalancing their forces the u.s. is seeking more access to these former basis though they may not be going after formal basing agreements he would have unlimited access to be specific use in 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 and this all of the beast would transform the philippines into a military outpost that would allow the united states to project its power throughout southeast asia an increased presence of u.s. troops would complicate matters between the philippines and china point stabilize the situation it 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 and the u.s. may not be headed for a direct military confrontation with china at the moment but the u.s. wants to contain china wants to encircle china and keep it subservient to u.s. dictates. take a look at some other stories making headlines across the globe for french soldiers were killed after a towel taliban a suicide bomber disguised as a woman blew himself up in eastern afghanistan five others were wounded in the blast it was the second deadly assault on saturday against nato forces france plans to withdraw all of its combat troops by the end of the year two years ahead of the

planned pullout agreed by the alliance. for members of the international criminal court have been detained in libya after meeting with gaddafi son saif al islam earlier reports claim one of the lawyers was held after trying to deliver documents that libyan authorities said were a danger to national security saif al islam is accused of his role in the killing of protesters during the revolt that toppled his father. three hundred civilians were killed in an ambush in ivory coast near its border with liberia seven un peacekeepers who were part of a patrol in the remote village also died in the violence it's not clear who's responsible for the killings in the us in the has said a peace observer mission in the country since two thousand and four to help and it's civil war. riot police fired tear gas and stun grenades in bahrain's capital as tens of thousands staged the biggest anti-government demonstration in weeks since february last year the country's seen nearly daily protests in which in

dozens have died the shiite led opposition is pushing for greater rights and reforms for the country's sunni rulers. maria sharapova won the prestigious french open in paris the twenty five year old russians become only the tenth woman in history who have conquered all four majors are sports presenter paul scott reflected on her it cheap. amongst the greatest players of all time to have ever walked the planet to ever play the game of tennis or won the wimbledon on grass at the age of seventeen that was back in two thousand and four since then she went on to win the u.s. open in two thousand and six the australian open in two thousand and eight and she's had this four year wait to complete the career grand slam and pick up the french title which she's done today and she's had a massive shoulder injury it really affected the way she was playing she had surgery on it she had to adapt to the way she played and there were genuine question serious questions as to whether she would come back be the player that she was whether she was going to fulfill that potential she said of the seventeen year old and i think she won her last grand slam when she was twenty one so it's been

a long long way despite that though she came through she was dominant over weight and she was dominant again today in the final six three six you look at the women's game at the moment you look at serena williams venus williams they're coming to the end of their career over was last world number one back in two thousand and eight the top spot the top ranking has changed fifteen times a different women have been the world number one there's been no one in the sport has dominated it maybe now she's back. into one side she's now got the french open under about maybe there's no reason why not it can't be sure apple who dominates in years to come will stay with us here on our t.v. still to come a look into the legacy of nuclear weapons test but first a recap of our top stories stay with us.

with the end of the boer war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake especially a lot of nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. focus of the victims to use it as a threat all as an extra bit but you know if you keep spinning a trillion dollars a year on weapons of eventually you're going to blow everybody up you you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see if people don't wake

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international conference to resolve the syrian crisis. both sides are to blame and the only way forward. foreign minister sergey lavrov says external powers are inciting the syrian opposition to continue fighting despite the country on the brink. hundred billion euros to help shore up the country's banking system critics say the loans will lead to the destruction of the country's banking sector. making marking. up next

a weapon that endangers the world's existence and yet some countries choose to boost their nuclear arsenals instead of fighting for peace a special report. the nuclear age is the first sixty years oh there's a pretty key guy can describe exactly how an underground test was done and no dory one zero almost you couldn't hear anything about there was no noise at all in 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 signed on to a statement providing for an unequivocal undertaking to the total elimination of nuclear weapons it has been set back by principally the united states but not alone russia france china the u.k. all have their share responsibility.