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 obviously 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 the assad regime is committing human rights abuses and they repeat this message obsessive 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 so a rush to take up arms over the course of the war and eight hundred nine see exactly what happened in our division of a massacre which was the village of russia you had a u.n. in korea that was severely bullied by the u.s. ambassador it was leaving your observation mission on the ground your claims that it was a brutal murder on programs occur of innocent civilians by government troops serving

it was lame presented with ultimatum and random games and bombed back then the yugoslavian government just like the syrian one now condemned militants for the killings in this case blaming the 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 an e.u. team has never been made public interestingly enough but what about the we've been reports of syrian rebels whoever they are liaising with the i think of being in kosovo liberation army the people who were basically agents of mido in the coastal war basically treading on i don't know they were saying they were training in in democracy. human rights but the only treaty that caylee could have ever given

anybody is how to. stage a war and i believe that's exactly what's happening now. but even with hindsight after the nato you can slavia ruin the alliance to say strikes in libya last year history isn't being prevented from repeating itself again and again with this seven images coming from syria and making world headlines everybody agreed 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. reported 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 pepe escobar says the man and the council are too disconnected

from the front line. sida hookups after barholm go yan is a very shady character he has very good kurdish connections of course so many connections as well but he has also tried to play to the christian answer the although i say look if there is a side 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 it's a disgruntled matter of fact and they don't get along with each other in the air he fields 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 league via qatar though where i am at the moment and this is a blue subject to be discussed here in qatar i can find anybody here who would discuss with me crane clearly what the qatari 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 montréal may have police here gas and pepper spray student protesters but they refuse to give in a word to worsen fee rises the video analysis and their reaction at r.t. dot com with much more to discover on our you tube channel.

the news today is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations around. 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. along 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 would support his policies but let's remember that during the presidential election the people who would come and voted for socialist stuff and so long they had voted for change in a small because they didn't want any more so in a simple symbolically this is

a test of a long ability to get the support from the french people if you doesn't get the majority essentially you will have a president who is on the left and you will have a parliament 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 thought. proposal to add sixty thousand new jobs in education sector or tax the rich by as much as seventy five percent you have first of all a law that was campaigning on. the more growth measures and getting faster out of the crisis and then if he doesn't get it he doesn't get the support of the lower house he will not be able to go on the spot certainly 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 austerity passed on to them they're certainly not going to be happy about it in front of a lot just in the beginnings of a storm does not want to see supports less and for the socialist party well as far

as foreign policy is concerned the part of the 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 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. pretty. interesting because they're not always go with the sacred in europe when we do see. the rise of those nationalist he's all over the board in europe and this is clearly the case you know. where in europe and this is a phenomenon that is happening across the board. when it comes to the right of.

life. with the recent actually. using power about the tendency to do the direction that i have been in greece in. spain today so this is a situation where incumbents are in trouble. and coming up later in the program equal work but unequal 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. on 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 aggressive fans 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 grace island 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 correspondence 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 flocking 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 twelve 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 the 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 some how much anger was transferred to a hospital in this city of one of the host cities of the year a twenty two a football championship nevertheless you can witness right. and a central key of what it's all about you can see the entrance to the fan zone and just meters away from the entrance to the fans on we see the tent of the opposition those who are supporting the protesting her imprisonment they've been here for almost a year now and they decided against removing their town with the euro twenty twelve coming to the ukrainian capital now suddenly they're still demanding that you get too much and go 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 it to be released immediately certainly the e.u. leaders have soft in 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 will decide to come here and witness her side play some other side in the quarterfinals but for now i understand she decided against coming here as well as almost all of the members of the dutch government the only sound of 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 try to get marched 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 we'll 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 see every night from both poland and ukraine. asking reporting there as for the football itself we've got all the drama on the page let's call an r.t.s. for it's later this hour. you have. traveled this way. language is common. you. are intense. and experienced.

british. happening to the global economy. watching our teen outcome is fear of the one hundred billion euro loan that the euro zone's agreed to give spain might not be enough by lining 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 are just spoke to the man who is often called the euro's founding father or later of the sour a former president of the e.u.

commissioner prodi says europe's crisis is due to a loss of sovereignty. if you read all the government. rules even if they fall they are democrat the world wide because they have to take the seat here in one direction up about the very kind of . tropical because you chose 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 although we lose all our civil liberties in new orleans from the. heat of the spree and the other count for. more but it's the parties in that i don't see that they would be a good really good this would use to. germany must be the leader of the dancer

conan and they really care but. can the dollars which are up for discussion and crosstalk later today ask whether it's time to retire the greenback as the world's reserve currency when china is getting more bang for the buck here's what's ahead at seven thirty g.m.t. . i think everybody on the program. those 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 marvin 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 of it and it's really very easy to do

strain good money after bad because the u.s. is bankrupt right. now a newly formed opposition group in georgia is gathering steam with sauza is rallying in 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 initiative warrants that the government's response to the rallies may not be peaceful. no the opposition has criticised increasing. and unfortunately very sure has not gotten enough traction among voters president sarkozy this government has been known to do with opposition protesters quite harshly and this one particularly brutal crackdown if you remember occurred in two thousand and seven ironically the fourth anniversary of the rose revolution yet the

opposition sticks to its peaceful methods and has so far so good she was government will not have a good enough excuse to project on it it will have to rely. on the peaceful means and dealing with these demonstrations may be denied media coverage to the opposition. i also believe it is still quite assured to go but. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world militants from a curious radical islamist group boko haram have attacked two churches fifty people were wounded by a suicide bomber in the city of jock's the blast triggered street protests in which six people die in a separate attack gunmen opened fire on worshippers in borno killing one person injuring three others of neurons carried out a number of church attacks and it stands to impose sharia law across nigeria.

violence in the capital of chile was sparked by a t.v. documentary which praised the country's former dictator augusto pinochet police had to use tear gas and water cannon to break up the angry crowds in santiago an estimated three thousand people were killed during pinochet's hardline seventeen year rule while thousands more where arrested or forced into exile. representatives from the war crimes court have flown to libya to negotiate the release of staff detained after visiting market obviously. it's claimed one of the lawyers was carrying documents considered a danger to libyan national security the i.c.c. president is the man. the group's release saif al islam is accused of role in killing protesters during the revolt that toppled his father's regime. and it was a sea of red in colombia's twenty thousand people took part in a six annual tomato five festival fifteen tons of a squishy sell vegetables were the only gradient for the event which was staged to

recognize farmers hard work was inspired by spain's famous tomatina festival organizers say it's not wasteful because the tomatoes were considered an edible and not treatable or the grocery store. america's women are now top of the class over men when it comes to getting advanced degrees and there is a sting in the tail though their salaries still lags far behind their male counterparts what's worse is that conservatives are blocking legislation to get their pay as maria explains. the static 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 aren't 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 politicians and much more to do with stereotypes surrounding gender united states that the finitely has a lot of cases where women are bluntly discriminated and where they are just discriminated. 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 my home is done with a double masters now i'm going to go for my ph d. man doesn't have to do that for this move but 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

but it's so brazen that so sexism i feel like there's like met men feel they have a higher power for women just in any sort of that 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. state face the largest earnings gaps making as much as forty percent less than their male counterpart financial occupations in those occupations women. wait tab some is impaired because it's hard to access that. there is like that old boys' network and remember we're going to 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 who put a man in there a salute to good 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 of the company's success as it is

really due to the participation of women on its platform more than sixty percent of the people who participate in facebook are very many maybe even more importantly than that when seventy percent of the actual sharing stuff that drives average and stuff that makes facebook as dynamic a platform as it is is and being questioned 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 savvy technologies tracking and collecting 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 addition to join us on the show on tuesday on r.t.e. . 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 or few 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 enabled 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.

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before the source material is what helps keep journalism honest we. we want to present. something you know. i'm sure all of our got a story or out about this crazy lady with a convertible that honk should every time she better that i was on death row for nineteen years right there is one more thing that a lot of besides adult life tell us that because everybody just a little over a society has condemned these people as less than human it is necessary to punish crime everything we do to punish crime is unpleasant. but it needs to be done noble . historical. of the american.

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stunt on t.v. don't come. back here with our t. here's a look at the top stories serious battles creep closer to president abbas's doorstep with bomb blasts and gun battles in damascus and throughout the country foreign pressure and calls for intervention are mounting while russia and other mediators push for peace group diplomacy. france looks left president alonso shoeless steal a march in the parliamentary election they and their allies secured more than forty six percent of the first round giving a powerful boost to reform that date. will again sound political activists threaten to mar the euro two thousand and twelve championships in poland and ukraine just four days into the tournament but some fans have jumped on their political policy decisions bandwagon and boycotting the tournament all work human rights issues.

across the european countries who share a currency the dads are piling and the emergency money fund is being sapped the man at the helm of the euro project launched now tells r.t. what's needed to save it. monetarily was a huge leader when eleven states abandon their currency for the euro mr prodi do you take any responsibility for the current mess for the current mess no must i take the merit for the euro look when they euro was gore it was clear that we needed political legs come on fiscal policy i advised the program of and now authorities to call. the behavior of a member state. in two thousand.