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 as terrorist attacks in damascus and aleppo that have been condemned by the u.n. security council all of this is a result of confrontations that 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 this discuss issues with iran when it serves their purpose also secular of saying that twenty's 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 that 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 word can ignite a fire. that we won't be able to extinguish if we cannot be sending daily signals

that make the opposition believe it will receive help just as libya received its help russia is committed to not allowing the situation in syria to end up like the one we saw in libya u.n. observers in syria continuing their investigation into a massacre in the province monitors of visited the site of the killings but haven't yet determine just how many are dead or who was behind the slaughter patrick hayes a reporter from online magazine spike thinks outside military intervention in syria could only aggravate an already volatile situation. i think it's 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 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 to impose to want to try me 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 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 that school. will stay with us here on r.t. still to come in the next few minutes anonymous activists staged protests across india against internet censorship. but first a new russian law to regulate demonstrations will see illegal protesters face fines of up to seven thousand euros or perform up to two hundred hours of community service president putin says the new laws in line with european standards meanwhile the opposition is planning yet another anti putin march of the millions next week

but as archie jacob agrees reports it may not live up to its name. it's been dubbed moscow's take on the globe who occupy movement. in america canada and around the globe we've seen protesters bedding down in their thousands here they've never quite reached those numbers for the people needed to do these because most of them just come to us in the weekends and in the evenings fair where the support and a continual game of cat and mouse with the city's police has taken its toll it's all keep our style protest in moscow was only 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 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 of 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 borne the rate of fusion of very different political forces that have national socialists have already called bolsheviks with a lot of people who just don't want to look some people just want to have a party or so in this case when you have 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 classes for camping the stage sit ins to reach 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 since the disadvantages of a leader is always your client says without a leader any movement is doomed to fail there is a unique situation where there are lots and there is presently no leader here. and we would need to report first and i have not seen any leader that i can vote for myself but i hope that this move will result in the birth of a new smart balanced and you can do it leader of their development as a movement is something many will be watching intensely currently still ranks in its infancy finding its feet but to convince a nation let alone supporters intense and twits it will be needed to grease

moscow. after being branded a threat to national security by a stony artie's eastern european correspondent alexei or shared ski went to tell him to get an explanation along with a number of russian estonian politicians he was blacklisted by security officials after a series of reports about some of the country's policies here's our investigation into the events 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 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 toilet 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 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 jumps to our defense collins 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 to get on the ball as to why they risk their careers and decided to support us when we deal of us the loss of why did the mayor and your party try to defend r t well personally rushing to take on the list 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. very same list i told my mother about that she's old and she remembers soviet repression very well it will issue 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. 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 us. 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 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 pressure to deliver in the middle of june we're expecting the 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 a bullish look see russia. reporting from tallinn. stay with us here on r.t. still to come we ask the residents of new york where they feel safe stashing their cash. but he talked about the markets they're investing in. derivatives markets. or opinions from the heart of the big apple coming your way in a little while. and i was a lot of the olympics are set to go off next month we investigate why a link to allegations of human rights abuses has been chosen to provide security for the game. but first internet users in india members of the hacktivist group anonymous have taken to the streets of cities across the country there angered by laws that bad file sharing websites and animists brought down more than fifteen

major sites prior to the rallies in protest over what they call censorship of the internet new delhi based activists believe there isn't much difference between 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 it sides being banned that is used daily by design. to operate 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 they're doing massive amounts of all but unities so it is a very destructive thing to be internet like bad 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 blocking access to witness functions all of the government that is why what is happening it's just it's just a peaceful protest. demonstrations are internet creative and held in europe to protesters in germany austria and france rallied against the controversial anti counterfeiting trade agreement that aims to curb piracy and protect copyright critics of the proposal say it would harm freedom of expression and privacy to come into force active needs ratification by the european parliament the vote is set for later this month. spain finally says it needs cash to help its troubled banks after emergency talks with the euro zone ministers the country's economy minister said madrid's going to ask for one hundred billion euro loan earlier the international monetary fund recommended forty billion euros crisis strategist gonzalo lira think

spain will simply have to 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 hundred billion euros in order to gain some perspective that was as roughly ten percent of spain's g.d.p. heat and even notion is to scare the markets into thinking that iraqi ends can 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 one hundred billion euros will be just for it over to spain's banks and even if it is it will have some nice 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 spanish banking sector i think all of this is really a reaction to what is one on greece on june seventeenth rhesus one to have

parliamentary elections and it's looking very likely that the greek people will vote against any kind of austerity for their austerity measures after 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 well european banks struggle to survive we asked people on the streets of new york whether it's safer to simply shove the money in the mattress instead of keeping it in the bank lori harshness caged opinion. 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. dealing 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. does it compare to the your it's getting stronger and stronger i mean i do so what do you trust about the punk mortgages they're investing in. the derivatives market well no i don't trust people they've got control of all your mother his sister personal say . 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 paddle move the globe or you get we are affected by europe very much our economy follows on what's happened in europe so. i exchange rates 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 that

are supposed to be 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 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 amanda was absolutely 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 that. 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 our stories or click away at r.t. dot com here's what's online right now how many camels would you trade for this man somali islam this activists are offering a ten camel pound. for president obama in response to the state department putting out a reward of thirty three million dollars but the capture of their leaders plus. japan already tops the world life expectancy list they may have now found another way to increase their lead country's scientists say they've found a protein responsible for aging and learn how to control and find out more at r t v dot com. the u.k. government will face questions of parliament over its choice of company to provide security at the london olympics the firm g four s.

has been linked allegations of human rights abuses and also operates in jewish settlements in the west bank in east jerusalem settlements are considered by u.k. to contravene international law investigative journalist tony gosling things companies with doubtful reputations use the games to whitewash their images. 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 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 is pretty essential 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 so show it in them with the olympic event and that is not what the olympics are for starting to look rather more like the nineteen 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. the u.s. plans to reopen two of his 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 u.s. warships to be deployed to the region by two thousand and twenty were not a ray as secretary general of the bay and political coalition thinks the move could be aimed of 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 they would have unlimited access to disperse cities and many other facilities all over the country so that their ships can stop over risk

if you will and be stationed for periods specially during military exercises and this all of these would transform the philippines into a military outpost that would allow the united states to project its power throughout southeast asia the increased presence of u.s. troops would complicate matters between the philippines and china. stab allies 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. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe for french soldiers were killed after a taliban suicide bomber disguised as a woman blew himself up in eastern afghanistan five others wounded in the blast it's the second deadly assault on saturday against nato forces france plans to

withdraw all 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 were detained in libya after meeting with gadhafi son saif al islam early reports claim one of the lawyers was held after trying to deliver documents libyan authorities deemed a danger to national security saif al islam is accused of his role of killing of protesters during the revolt that toppled his father. at least eight civilians were killed in an ambush in ivory coast near its border with liberia seven un peacekeepers who were part of a patrol in a remote village also died in the attack not clear who is behind the killings liberia said it sealed its border fearing the gunmen had used the country for a cross border assault. finally maria sharapova has won the prestigious french open in paris the twenty five year old russians become only the tenth woman to have conquered all four majors r.t. sports presenter paul scott has before. amongst the greatest players of all time to

have ever walked the planet to ever play the game of tennis shopper who 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 this 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 question as to whether she would come back but she was whether she was going to fulfill that potential she saw over the seventeen year old and i think she won her last grand slam when she was twenty one so it's been a long way despite out there she came through she was dominant over weight and she was dominant again today in the final six three six three 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 since you're up over was last world number one back in two thousand and eight the top spot the top ranking is 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 injury short them to 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. still ahead r.t. travels to russia's heroes or region for another episode of discover russia but first a recap of our headlines stay with us. hold

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seven thirty am in moscow these are your r.t. headlines russia calls for an international conference to resolve the syrian crisis moscow insisting both sides are to blame and the only way forward is to pack the whole field on display. in. spain confirms it will seek one hundred billion euros to help shore up the country's beleaguered banking system this after emergency talks with euro zone minister. russian tennis star maria sharapova completes a career grand slam by winning the french open. up next we take you to where europe and asia meet as he travels to russia's chelyabinsk region where you can see a mix of everything from the previous story to the modern stay with us.

the region is one of those places that offers something for everyone sitting just east of the urals the country's border between europe and asia this is an ethnically diverse area of more than three million people there's a bustling capital city to enjoy and for the nature lovers some of russia's most stunning countryside is right on your doorstep. as well as being very beautiful this is also a very significant part of the screen because over there it marks the start of the european ural mountains and also we're on top of one of russia's most significant logical treasures. just a few meters away is the entrance to the ignaty of sky cave and it's supposed to contain some of the best preserved ancient.