here is battle creek closer to president assad's doorstep the foreign pressure mounts while russian other mediators push for peace through diplomacy. france looks left president alonso still a steal a march in round one of the parliamentary election giving us powerful boost to his reform mandate. for boho again and political activists threaten to mar the euro two thousand and twelve championships in poland and ukraine just four days into the tournament.

it is in the russian capital you're watching our. welcome to the program as u.n. observers struggle to make a difference in the conflict or in syria international calls for military intervention are growing louder the mask is on the defensive as nationwide fighting rolls into the city several bomb blasts i'm gunna battles have rocked the capital with dozens reportedly killed there at a doubter flashpoints across the country state media also claims that terrorists are preparing to unleash chemical weapons on civilians and then blame the attacks on the regime to provoke intervention for an action is something neighboring israel is also now calling for meanwhile u.n. observers continue their investigation of wednesday's massacre in the hama province . in syria with more. duquesne bodies laying side by side we mean children among them death was indiscriminate and bloody the pictures from syria this week have brought shock around the globe and also a worry in sense of deja vu just weeks before another massacre came to light this

time in the village of houla and the world was quick to pass judgment the american british and french push for military intervention in syria is absolutely enormous we've seen hague of course william hague the british foreign secretary calling for intervention we've seen the new french president saying the same thing the americans are basically taking the lead the specter of a military solution returned before an investigation into who was responsible was even launched they're all saying that their side regime is committing human rights abuses and they repeat this message obsessive lee i am confident to predict that indeed it will remain fixed in people's minds and could well be used as a pretext and you don't have to look back to florida to see where hasty jokingly saw a rush to take up arms over the course of the war and not exactly what happened when i would have a massacre which was the village of russia. that was severely bullied by the u.s.

ambassador it was leaving your observation mission on the ground your claims that it was a row as a group innocent civilians by government troops certainly was when presented with. games and bought back then the yugoslavian government just like the syrian one now condemned militants for the killings in this case blaming of benon separatists from the cost of a liberation army an investigation was launched to find out whether the victims were innocent civilians as the international community claimed or whether the country's army had been battling professional fighters two out of three forensic inquiries proved most of the casualties died in combat the third report. by any you team has never been made public interesting we know. we have been reports of syrian rebels whoever they are liaising with the. think of being in kosovo liberation army the people who were basically the agents of mido in the course or. basically

treading on don't know they were saying they were training in democracy and human rights but definitely the only training that caylee could have ever given anybody is how do you think i'm going to stage a war and i believe that's exactly what's happening now. but even with hindsight after the nato bombing of yugoslavia you ruin the alliances or you strikes in libya last year history isn't been prevented from repeating itself again and again with this seven images coming from syria and make it world headlines everybody agrees those who are guilty must be punished but the reaction from the international community has been so sweet and so called donated the reason is that punishment will come before even those who are truly responsible are exposed and that could mean not just a loss of justice but also huge loss of life. refinishing r t reporting from syria the appointment of an ethnic kurds to lead the opposition syrian national council

is being seen as an attempt to garner wider support for the rebellion but asia times correspondent pervez cobar says the man and the council are two disconnected from the front line. sida hookups afterburner barholm go yan is a very shady character he has very good kurdish commanders of course so many connections as well but he is also trying to play to the christian and so they although i say look if there is. the government or rejean or we're not going to touch it nobody believes him insights in fact did jim brail of the opposition umbrella is disgruntled matter in fact you know they don't get along with each other in the air if you read it on the ground by people who are actually doing a lot of these killings in fact and these people they are mercenaries imported from libya by the way via qatar though where i am at the moment and this is a terrible subject to be discussed here in qatar i can find anybody here who would

discuss with me cranky what the cats are it intelligence services are actually doing on the ground in syria but this is part of the qatari foreign policy they are financing and weaponize in the really hardcore arm of the syrian opposition and i'm not sure mr sieda the new ahead of the syrians or council not what's really going on the ground. reports claim the syrian opposition is planning to play dirty with civilian lives r t has a story online. sources say the rebels have got their hands on chemical weapons which they plan to use on innocent syrians and that frame the government. also the montreal may have police here gas and pepper spray student protesters but they refuse to give in a word tuition fee rises the video analysis and the reaction are at our to dot com with much more to discover on our you tube channel.

four news today. these are the images the world on the streets of canada. giant corporations ruled the day. president francois hollande socialist party and its leftist allies stand positioned to take control of the parliament following the first round of voting his party already has a majority of seats in the senate are these tests are still your reports on the french race for power. what he really wants is an absolute majority if not an absolute majority of all the socialist party getting more than fifty percent that would be a majority of the left at least he would support his policies but let's remember that during the presidential election the people who would come in voted for

socialist stuff and so long they had voted for change in a smart as they didn't want anymore so symbolically this is a test of ability to get support from the french people if he doesn't get the majority essentially you will have a president who is on the left and you will have a parliamentary that is on the right right now before this elections it was the conservatives that was had the majority in the lower house and this will certainly pose problems into passing new laws that he wants to get into place such as his proposal to add sixty thousand new jobs in the education sector or tax the rich by as much as seventy five percent you know for so long it was going to painting on. more growth measures and getting faster out of the crisis and then if he doesn't get if he doesn't get the support of the lower house he will not be able to go on the dispatcher and the conservatives are going to be more for this asserting measures now we see spain in trouble and you see my trickle down into france and if the french people get even more steady proselyting they're certainly not going to

be happy about it in front of a lot of it just in the beginning of a storm does not want to see supports lesson for the socialist party well as far as long as foreign policy is concerned the part of a military and defense he has also proposed to withdraw troops from afghanistan earlier here earlier than planned and if he if he doesn't follow through with the promises he made during his election campaign he will need the support of the lower house he already has the majority in the senate and it's crucial that he does get the support of the a parliament in france as are still reporting there coming on ground to from the foundation for strategic research says the potential victory of the french socialist reflects a call for change around europe. french politics are. interesting because they're not always go with the overall cycle in europe when we do see certainly is the rise of those nationalist policies all over the board in europe and this is clearly the case in france where in europe and this is

a phenomenon that they did it didn't cross the board. when it comes to the rise of socialism so what are what's clear in the recent elections in europe is that the. parties in power have about the tendency to lose election that don't happen in greece in no man's in spain in need to be so this is a situation where incumbents are in trouble. thank you we have later in the program equal work but on equal pay brains don't match the bank balance in the united states we explain why for every dollar a man earns a woman gets just seventy seven cents. well just four days into the euro twenty twelve full finals and the atmosphere is certainly hotting up in poland and ukraine and it's not just on the pitch with aggressive fans and politics threatening to overshadow the championship police polish police have arrested fourteen people involved in

a brawl between irish polish and gratian supporters just before the game on sunday it's the latest incident in a string of clashes that has already seen a number of teams warned over their fans behavior over ukraine the fans are not shying away from politics either correspondents here cesky reports. ukraine's capital kiev is joining in with the feast of football that is certainly the year twenty two world football championship with the national side to play a swedish national side here on the monday evening i'll certainly flans fans are walking into the city with at least twenty five thousand arriving here on sunday alone so joining the huge army of swedish fans and fans from all over europe who have come here to witness this tournament now certainly from the organizational point of view everything has been smooth so far and certainly the tournament is all about sports it's all about football but to some extent you are twenty is being overshadowed by baltics now we certainly remember that some leaders of the european

states of the european union member states decided to boycott the championship because of what they describe as mistreatment of ukraine's prime minister yulia timoshenko who is serving seven years in prison for the abuse of power and now we understand that some of the members some of the leaders of the member states of the e.u. member states have so often there's somehow it was transferred to a hospital in the city of one of the host cities of the euro twenty two a football championship nevertheless you can witness right. an essential key of what it's all about you can see the entrance to the found zone and just meters away from the entrance to the found zone we see the tent camp of the opposition of those who are supporting the protesting her imprisonment they've been here and back for almost a year now they decided against removing their town with the euro twenty twelve coming to the ukrainian capital now suddenly they're still demanding that you must be freed and everyone all the tourists coming here can observe the posters they hang out in english demanding the political prisoner you know to much as they

describe or to be released immediately certainly the e.u. leaders have softened their stance some of them will be coming to witness the football here in ukraine but we understand that angela merkel the german chancellor who always attends german matches when the national side plays decided against coming to ukraine at least during the group stage should germany qualify from the group stage then maybe your merkel will decide to come here and witness her side play some other side in the quarterfinals but for now i understand that she decided against coming here as well as almost all of the members of the dutch government they only send the minister of sport here to ukraine to attend the dutch games but other members who always attend dutch games when they play during the euros decided against coming here i also understand that the dutch supporters ahead of their game against denmark in the city of how to give march to the streets of this ukrainian city wearing t. shirts saying free so you can see for yourself that this story is being closely

connected to politics closely connected to the pressure from the european union on ukraine to release you will see certainly in the coming weeks how this situation will unfold for now it's been very peaceful here and everyone certainly enjoys the great game of football which we seeing every night from both poland and ukraine i say she ask you reporting there as for the football itself we've got all the drama on the pitch with paul and for it's later this hour stay with us. the. comfort is the least you have. your money is the last you need to if you travel this way. language is common. to. the. emotions are intense. and experience priceless.

wealthy british style holds. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports. what you are tina his fear of the one hundred billion euro loan that the euro zone's agreed to give spain might not be enough by lending the cash to spain where one in four people are out of work ministers want to reassure investors and erect a crisis far wall spanish banks were left with billions of euros of bad loans after the property bubble burst sending the country into a deep recession r.t.

spoke to the man who is often called the euro's founding father a later this hour former president of the e.u. commissioner monochrome he says europe's crisis is due to a loss of sovereignty. if you read all the government. rules that they follow although they are democrat the world wide because they have to take the field in one direction not that they cannot types tropical because you close your way all the european state rules you can go to and this is a very unique and so i've got it we put our so very few together or we lose all our civil liberties and you are doing it in the. heat of the space and the other conference for. more bottoms to parties in that i don't see that they

would be good would be good this would be stupid you know germany must be the leader of the day for conan and really what. can the dollar's future up for discussion and cross talk later today guess asked whether it's time to retire the greenback as the world's reserve currency when china is giving more bang for the buck here's what's ahead at seven thirty g.m.t. . i think everybody on the program. china's foreign reserve holdings are a big political issue at home it's the blood sweat and tears of the chinese people what happened to its value what do you mean you wrote it off and second again as everybody knows if you were writing art of part of china's debt off you would start with the part that's in euro's you would start with the part that's in dollars so you know this is. for us the u.s. fiscal situation. according to morgan stanley.

greets that of greece ok i'm not even talking about you know all the other better countries so that the u.s. is better than the eurozone i would very much doubt that and it's really the reason to string good money after bad because the u.s. is. now a newly formed opposition group and georgia is gathering steam with. the caucasus country's second largest city the georgian dream party is the brainchild of the nation's richest billionaire who hopes to challenge president saakashvili an election later this year right now polls put his party around twenty percent behind the ruling united national movement director of the new york based eurasia democracy they should have warned that the government's response to their rallies may not be peaceful. no the opposition has criticised the tissues increasing authoritarian tactics and unfortunately that issue has not gotten enough traction among voters presidents actually this government has been known to deal with

opposition protesters quite harshly in the past one particularly brutal crackdown if you remember occurred in two thousand and seven ironically the fourth anniversary of the rose revolution yet if the opposition sticks to its peaceful methods and it has so far as government will not have a good enough excuse to crackdown and it will have to rely. on the peaceful methods in dealing with these demonstrations maybe deny media coverage to the opposition and i also believe that it is still quite assured. in october. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world militants from a year of radical islamist group boko haram have attacked two churches fifty people were wounded by a suicide bomber in the city of jobs the blast triggered street protest in which six people died in a separate attack gunmen opened fire on worshippers in borno killing one person

injuring three others the rom's carried out a number of church attacks and it stands to oppose sharia law across nigeria. violence in the capital of chile was sparked by a t.v. documentary which carries the country's former dictator augusto pinochet police had to use tear gas water cannon to break up the angry crowds in santiago an estimated three thousand people were killed during his hardline seventeen year rule while thousands more were arrested or forced into exile. representatives from the war crimes court have flown to libya to negotiate the release of stabbed after visiting water gadhafi is captured son saif al islam it's claimed one of the lawyers was carrying documents considered a danger to libyan national security the i.c.c. president is demanding the group's release so if i was lama's accused of a role in killing protesters during the revolt that toppled his father's regime. and it was

a sea of red and colombia's twenty thousand people took part in the six annual tomato five festival fifteen tons of the squishy so vegetables were the only gradient for the event which was staged to recognize farmers hard work well it's inspired by spain's famous tomatina festival organizers say it's not wasteful because the tomatoes were considered edible and not suitable for the grocery store . america's women are now top of the class over man when it comes to getting advanced degrees and there is a sting in the tail though their salaries still lag far behind their male counterparts what's worse is that conservatives are blocking legislation to get fair pay as maria explains. these medical landscape of america's professional force has undergone major reconstruction over the decades women now make up fifty percent of the nation's labor force sixty percent of the voting population and they've surpassed men in earning advanced college degrees but when it comes to salary the

land of opportunity remains a land of inequality for women full time working women in the u.s. certainly ernst seventy seven cents for every dollar made by a man according to recent statistics men on higher salaries in nearly all occupations including nursing teaching and even secretarial work but experts say the pay gap has less to do with qualifications and much more to do with stereotypes surrounding gender united states that definitely has a lot of cases where women are bluntly discriminated and where they are just discriminated based based on sex the u.s. government says that the current earnings gap will cost the average full time working woman at least four hundred thousand dollars by the time she's sixty five years old we keep going for higher and higher degrees you know home is done with

the double masters and i'm going to go for my ph d. man doesn't have to do that for this move if you feel that you know you need to be paid more you need to like put it with don and say that i need to be paid more there's so brazen that so sexism i feel like there's really men feel they have a higher power of women just in any sort of sense even the workplace socially it just doesn't make sense to me according to the institute for women's policy research females working on wall street or in real estate face the largest earnings gaps making as much as forty percent less than their male counterpart financial occupations in those occupations women like really big which absent is in part because it's hard to access that few others like the old boys. i don't remember me or could be your best friend or your worst enemy america's old boys network of the one nine hundred sixty s. depicted in the show mad men to put a man in their salute to get seriously seems to still permeate in most corporations

today less than sixteen percent of fortune five hundred companies reportedly have a woman on the board. facebook has none this is a company whose success is really due to the participation of women on its platform more than sixty percent of the people who participate in facebook are women and maybe even more importantly than that when seventy percent of the actual sharing the stuff that drives average and the stuff that makes facebook as dynamic a platform as it is being done and the question by women and yet they went public without a single woman on their board of directors inside the boardroom of america's lawmakers republicans recently block legislation aimed at strengthening equal pay for women the paycheck fairness act would require employers to prove that differences in pay are based on qualifications not gender and why did the window of time for filing discrimination lawsuit decades after breaking through the glass ceiling america's

working women represent professional muscle but are still fighting for genuine equality. r.t. new york privacy is all but a thing of the past with serving you technologies tracking and collecting the details of our every move but there is an invisible war being fought by the cypherpunks movement to keep our data private and they're on the latest edition of the julian assange show on tuesday on r.t. . when you say let's let the actors decide what the policy will be i can answer you from the perspective of what was the internet in the last fifteen years where innovation was so-called bottom up where new practice is emerged out of nothing were couple of guys in a garage invented a technology that spread like. for nearly everything. for the shooting everything everything that happened on the internet just after

being unknown a few months of you few years before so you cannot predict what will be the next innovation my point here is that its. policy has to adapt to society and not the other way around we have the impression with the copyright wars that. the legislature tries to make the whole society change to adapt to a framework that is defined by hollywood say ok what you're doing when you're with your new cultural practice is just morally wrong so if you don't want to stop it then we'll design legal tools to make you stop doing what you think is good this is not the way to make good policy so i'm convinced that when you enable the most powerful industrial actors to decide what policy should be you don't go that way.

that brings us up to date here in r.t. i'll be back shortly with headlines. hasn't been. on t.v.

. journalism. something. i'm sure all of our got a story or out about this crazy lady with a convertible that. every time she. was on death row for. a lot of the life that. society has condemned these people as less than human it is necessary to punish crime and everything we do to punish crime is unpleasant. but it needs to be done

nobody wants to be linked to the nazis but the historical antecedents of the american death penalty today come in large part from the nazis and the sad part is state of texas gets their way and they execute him and i won't be allowed to touch him until after he's dead he's my only time i leave the house and my horn and he keeps telling me they can't hear me in there because it's all cinder blocks and concrete but i've still honk every time i go by. i won't be there i will not witness the killing myself. in the us.