serious battles repos are to present off his doorstep to foreign pressure mounts while russia and other mediators force for peace through diplomacy. france looks less president hollande socialist steal a march and round one of the parliamentary elections giving him powerful boost to his reform mandate. for the whole again sounds a little activist threaten to mar the euro twenty five championships in poland and ukraine just four days into the tournament.

it is not in the russian capital you're watching r t on marina joshie as you want to serve a struggle to make a difference in conflict or in syria international calls for military intervention are growing louder damascus is on the defensive as nationwide fighting rolls into the city while state media claims that terrorists are preparing new plots to provoke regime change refinishing is in the syrian capital for months and let's get the latest from her well marina maria violence is reportedly escalating across the country so is the syrian regime now feeling the squeeze. well there really you're absolutely right news we've been receiving in the last few days indicate that the rebels are gaining on the syrian regime we've been hearing here in damascus explosions and gunfire between oppositions and governmental forces and it's been much much more frequent than ever before with violence has not only is collated here in the capital but everywhere across the country over the weekend and local

media have also been reporting that the rebels are now in procession of chemical weapons and smuggled in from libya and they're planning a chemical weapon a terror attack to blame it on damascus well we've seen indeed the rebels been increasingly aggressive and active recently and of course these accusations may sound groundless but we've all seen just recently how the rebels may have framed people just last week and from the british journalist alex thompson from channel four has said that while working here in syria he and his crew were set up by the rebels to be killed by the syrian army he has said that they were deliberately led into a death trap and he thinks that the opposition wanted them to be killed by the governmental forces to blame it on damascus meanwhile the u.n. monitors are working here on the ground trying to do their best to investigate what's going on. right now they're trying to establish exactly what happened during

last week's massacre in the central province some province of how mark how many people were killed and who's to blame but this is extremely hard to do and the details of very hard to very far. because the result lot of confusion and the main reason is that the rub many many sides been pulled in this conflict in syria not just governmental forces or. of rebels rebel fighters but the results of the police third part. clued in are the jihad is whose goal is to topple the regime here in syria and all of these saw is involved in this conflict may be responsible for the killing and that also could be a provocation so it makes. the work call for u.n. . mission here on the ground extremely complicated we've also recently been hearing and now there are

a lot of mean indicators the syrian national council the turkey based opposition group has elected a new leader and he is a kurd curried the largest ethnic minority here in syria and they haven't been anyhow involved in this crisis here in the country we haven't heard any problem from the area in north east of the country where they leave so these nomination fears are growing that the rebels are trying to involve as much people as possible and even involve this ethnic group and that may lead to even more violence and more violence escalations here in syria. thanks very much indeed for bringing us this update live from the syrian capital damascus. now 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 afterburner homegirl 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 and so they although i say look if there is a pulse the government or rejean or we're not going to touch him nobody believes him insights in fact did jim brail of the opposition umbrella is instead disgruntled matter in fact you know they don't get along with each other in the air if you traded 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 blue subject to be discussed here in qatar i can find anybody here who would

discuss a train clee 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 head of the syrians or council not what's really going on the ground are as morning on our side and pick tears on our website i could have come online at the moment. and all the scandal files season of police raid on the former head of the about him bank a logically expose misdeeds and side one of the world's most secretive organizations plus. the montreal they have now police tear gas and pepper spray students protesters but they refused to give it over to ration the rises the video analysis and their reaction are at r.t.

to home with much more to discover on our you tube channel. four news today. these are the images the world from the streets of canada. joint operations room the day. the president francois hollande socialist party and its leftist allies stand to take control of parliament following a triumphant first round they and their allies secured more than forty six percent giving a powerful boost to reform men date because her celia is following the race for power in pairs. 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 a long 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 campaigning on his anti austerity 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 a dispatcher to 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 beginning of a stern does not want to see supports less and for the socialist party well as far as long as foreign policy is concerned the part of the military and defense he has also proposed to withdraw troops from afghanistan earlier a year 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. grand from the foundation for strategic research has the potential victory of the french socialist reflects the call for change around europe. pretty. interesting because going. i always go with the overall cycle in europe where we do see thirty new year 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 this is a phenomenon that is happening across the board. when it comes to the rise of social needs and what. i fear in the recent elections in europe is that the. parties in power about the tendency to do the direction that it happened in greece in. in spain and in need to be so this is a situation where incumbents are in trouble. and coming up later in the program equal work but on equal pay brains don't match the bank balance in the united states and we explain why for every dollar a man earns a woman gets just seventy seven cents. just four days into the euro two thousand and twelve football 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 corrosion supporters just before the game on sunday and it's the latest incident in a string of clashes that has already seen a number of teams warn though where their fans behavior over in ukraine the fans are not shying away from politics either respond they have ski reports. ukraine's capital kiev is joining in with the feast of football that is certainly the euro twenty two world football championship with the national side to play a swedish national side here on the monday evening out suddenly 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 sadly 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 a 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 solved in their stance somehow it was transferred to a hospital in the city of one of the host cities of the euro why did well for. championship nevertheless you can witness right here in a central 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 fans on we see the tent of the opposition those who are supporting you and the protesting her imprisonment they've been here and back for almost a year now they decided against removing their town with a 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 the demanding the political prisoner you know it's much like 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 we'll 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 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 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 a very peaceful here and everyone certainly enjoys the great game of football which we seeing every night from both poland and ukraine. i suggest you for now as for the full bill itself we've got all the drama on the pitch was human and for its next hour. wealthy british style sun. it's not time to. go to. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for

a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. line. would be soo much brighter if you move the sun from phones to freshen. screens don't talk t.v. don't calm. economists fear the one hundred billion euro loaned out the euro zone's agreed to give spain might not be enough by lending the cash to spain where one and four people are out of work ministers want to be sure investors and erect a crisis firewall spanish banks were left with billions of euros of bad loans after

the property bubble burst sending the country into a deep recession are you spoke to a man who was often called the euros founding father and in the next hour forming your community vision president obama probably says the future of european governments should be based on working for their common good. it is fear that all. governments. losing it and they. all that is a democratic world require because they have to take the seat here in one direction not that other they cannot touch tax capital because it slows their way all the european states i'm losing are suffering and this is a given and so either we put our so very together or we lose all our civil liberties in new links from france italy spain and other countries for this

more modest policy and that i don't see that they will be a gauge generally because this would be stupid you know germany must be the leader of the world in terms of the country and we need. dollars future up for discussion in crosstalk later today peter lavelle's guest asked whether it's time to retire the greenback asked 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 knows 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 where. your u.s.p. u.s. fears go situation where you are dangerous 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 why we have to train good money after bad because the u.s. is bankrupt. i know we formed opposition group and georgia is gathering steam with thousands rallying in the congress is country's second largest city the georgian dream party is the brainchild of the nation's richest billionaire who hopes to challenge president and i actually wrote this here right now polls for his party around twenty percent behind the ruling united national movement that director of the new york based you arrange a democracy initiative warns that the government's response to the rallies may not be peaceful. no the opposition has criticized increasing. its. no traction among voters with his government has

to do with opposition protests quite harshly and this one particularly brutal crackdown if you remember occurred in two thousand and seven ironically the fourth anniversary of the. yet if the opposition sticks to its peaceful methods then 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. also take a look at some other stories from around the world militants from nigeria's radical islam as a result of a rom have attacked two churches fifty people were wounded by a suicide bomber in the city of joss the blast triggered street protest in which six people died in a separate attack gunmen opened fire and worshippers in borno killing one person

and injuring three others baba rahm's carried out a number of church attacks and its attempts to impose sharia law across nigeria. violence in the capital 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 sounds more were arrested or forced into exile. representatives from the war crimes court have flown to libya to negotiate the release of staff detained after visiting want gadhafi is captured son saif al islam it's claimed one of the lawyers was carrying documents considered a danger to levy a national security the i.c.c. president is demanding the group's release so far as long as 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 and tomato

fight festival fifteen tons of the squishy salad vegetable were the only ingredients for an event which is staged to recognize farmers hard work it's inspired by spain's famous tomatina festival organizers say it's not wasteful because the tomatoes were considered in that a bowl and not suitable for the grocery store. now america's women are now top of the class over man when it comes to getting advanced degrees there's a stay in the tail though their salaries still left far behind their male counterparts and what's worse is that conservatives blue are. walking legislation to get fair pay as we're in a fortnight now 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 aren't seventy seven cents for every dollar made by a man according to recent statistics men earn 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 the finitely 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 almost done with the

double masters and i'm going to go for my ph d. man doesn't have to do that so 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's so sexism i feel like there's like met men feel they have a higher power or 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 wage jobs and as impaired. it's hard to accept that. there is like that old boys' network and i don't remember who we are 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 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. 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. new york privacy is all but a thing of the past with savvy technology is tracking and collecting details of our every move but there is an invisible war being fobbed by the cypherpunks movements to keep our data private and they are on the latest edition of the join us on show on tuesday here on our team. when you say let's let the actors 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.

thing everything everything that happened on the internet just wound 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 it's. policy has to adapt to society and not the other way around we have the impression with the copyright wars that. a legislator tries to make the whole society change to adapt to a framework that is defined by hollywood say ok what you're doing when 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.

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