serious battles creep closer to president abbas's doorstep the foreign pressure mounts while russia and other mediators push for peace through diplomacy. france looks left president alon socialist steal a march in round one of the parliamentary election giving a powerful both to his reform mandate. for the whole again some political activists threaten to mar the euro two thousand and twelve championships in poland and ukraine just four days into the tournament. in the russian capital you're watching r t m arena joshua welcome to the program as

you want observers struggle to make a difference in conflict a war in syria international calls for a military intervention are growing louder with israel now joining in 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 or even national has the latest from the syrian capital. the use 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 oppositions and governmental forces and it's been much much more frequent than ever before but violence has not only is collated here in the capital but everywhere across the country over the weekend the local media have also been reporting that the rebels are now in perception of chemical weapons and smuggled in from libya and they're planning chemical weapon and terror attack to blame it on damascus well we've seen indeed

the rebels been recently 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 a from the british journalist alex thompson from channel four has said that while working here in syria he and his. who were set up by the rebels to be killed by the syrian army he said 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 working here on the ground to try to trying to do their best to gauge what is 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 much 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 there is a lot of confusion and the main reason is that the many many sides been involved in this conflict here in syria not just governmental forces all. of rebels rebel fighters but the result of the police third part. it may include. the jihad is whose goal is to topple the regime here in syria and all these toys 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 another law in indicate the syrian national council. to keep based opposition group has elected a new leader and he is a kurd curry's of 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 the leaves so this nomination fears are growing that the rebels are trying to involve as. people as possible and even involve this group and that may lead to even more violence and more violence escalations here in syria brave enough in reporting there the syrian national council has been at odds with some opposition groups inside syria the new as in c. . but asia times correspondent pepe escobar 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 has also tried to play to the christian and so they all

oh i say look if there is a pulse there 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 is disgruntled matter of fact and they don't get along with each other in the air in a field 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 and do 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 . always more news analysis and pictures on our website r.t. dot com online of the violence and godly scandal file sees a police raid on the former head of the vatican bank allegedly exposed inside one of the world's most secretive organizations plus. the montreal may have police tear gas and pepper spray student protesters but they were refused to give it over to asian feel rises the video the analysis and the reaction our authority dot com was much more to discover on our you tube channel. president francois hollande socialist party and its leftist allies stand to take control of parliament following a triumphant first round they and their allies secure bore them forty six percent giving a powerful boost to alonzo reform mandate as our ceiling is following the race for power in paris. 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 elections people would come and voted for socialist stuff and so long they had voted for change in a smart as they didn't want and even more so symbolically this is a test of the young the 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 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 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 be aiming on his team or 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 study 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 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 the military and defense he has also proposed to withdraw troops from afghanistan earlier a year earlier than planned and if he if he does intend to 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 to certainly reporting their grants from the foundation for strategic research as a potential victory of the french socialist reflects a call for change around europe. pressure critiques are. interesting because

they're not always go with the overall cycle in europe what do 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 across the board. when it comes to the rise of socialism so what. 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 and in need to be so this is a situation where incumbents are in trouble. coming up 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. just four days into the euro two thousand and twelve full finals and the atmosphere is certainly hotting up in poland and

ukraine and it's not just on the pitch where the grass of fans and politics threatening to overshadow the championship police in poland have arrested fourteen people involved in a brawl between irish polish and gratian savors just before the game on sunday is the latest incident in a string of clashes that has already seen in number of teams warned over their fans behavior over in ukraine the fans are not shying away from politics either as our correspondent here should ask you now reports. ukraine's capital kiev is joining in with the feast of football that is certainly the euro twenty twelve 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 study from the organizational point of view everything has been smooth so far and suddenly the tournament is all about

sports it's all about football but to some extent you are trying to do well 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 state of the e.u. member states have solved in their stance somehow it was transferred to a hospital in the city of critic of one of the host cities of the euro twenty two all football championship nevertheless you can witness right here in a central kiev 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 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 units much as they describe or to be released immediately certainly the e.u. leaders have soft in their stand 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 the streets of this ukrainian

city wearing t. shirts saying free yulia 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. ask your reporting there as a political football itself we've got all the drama on the page with the union an artist for it later this hour. economists fear the one hundred billion euro loaned out the euro zone's agreed to give spain might be enough by lending the cash to spain where why did four people are out of work ministers one 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 he spoke to the man who is often called the euro's founding father later this hour former european commission president ronald prodi says the use troubles began with a lack of control. when the year award or the course clear. that we need to put it because leaks from one fiscal policy adviser to the program. and notorious key to. the behavior of bestie two thousand and three rise of the program we gave france germany and italy they told that this was the game they need then i could. read the cocoa trolled by the euro stuff and they said no and so that we could cheat everything but. can't afford to have a budget is much awarded. but nobody likes california because the greek government

cheated no doubt and they have the worst six seven per idea that was the day the search result is not to be state it is of a degree of you know. to a good o.t. two piece of good will. and the dollars future are for discussion in crosstalk later today peter lavelle's guess 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 next hour. i think everybody on the program knows that china's foreign currency 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 poor art of part of china's debt off you would start with the part that's in europe you would start with the part that's in dollars so you know this is where but i know it was a u.s.b. u.s. fiscal situation. and according to morgan stanley it's worse than that of

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're off to the. money off the bat because the u.s. is bankrupt. and newly formed opposition group in georgia is gathering steam with thousands rallying in the caucasus country's second largest city the georgian dream party is the brainchild of the nation's richest billionaire hopes to challenge president saakashvili in an election later this year right now polls put his party around twenty percent behind the ruling united national movement the director of the new york based you arrange a democracy initiative warrants that the government's response to the rallies may not be peaceful. no the opposition has criticized this use increasingly. and unfortunately very sure has not gotten enough traction among voters president sarkozy this government has been known to do with opposition protests quite harshly

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 have so far so good she was government will not have a good enough excuse to crackdown and it will have to rely. on the peaceful and dealing with these demonstrations maybe deny media coverage to the opposition. and i also believe it is still quite assured. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world militants from nigeria's radical islam as a group have attacked two churches fifty people were one to buy a suicide bomber in the city of joss the blast triggered street protest in which six people died in a separate attacks gunmen opened fire on worshippers in borno killing one person

and injuring three others. carried out a number of church attacks in its attempts 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 water cannon to break up the angry crowds and some to an estimated three thousand people were killed during 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 staff detained after visiting a lot of 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 the mannings of groups released so i thought islam is accused of a row in killing protesters during the revolt that toppled his father's regime. and

it was this of radin colombia's twenty thousand people took part in the sixth annual tomato five festival fifteen tons of the squishy sell of vegetable were the only one for the event which was staged to recognize farmers hard work it's inspired by spain's famous don't want to festival organizers say it's not wasteful because the tomatoes were considered good out of all and not suitable for the grocery store. america's women are now top of the class overmanned when it comes to getting advanced degrees there is a sting in the tail though their salaries still lag far behind their male. parts what's worse is that conservatives are blocking legislation to get fair pay as marina part that ause point. these medical and state 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 definitely 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 my home is done with

a 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 a myth built men feel they have a higher power for 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 likely. the way tabs on is in part because it's hard to access 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 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 maybe even more importantly than that when seventy percent of the actual sharing the stuff that drives average and 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 bought a thing of the past with savvy technologists tracking and collecting details of our every move but there isn't a visible war being fought by the cypherpunks movement to keep our data private and they are on the latest edition of the julian assange show on tuesday here on our team. when you say let's let the actors decide what the police you will be i can answer you from the perspective of what was the internet in the last fifteen years where innovation was bottom up where new practice is emerged out of nothing were couple of guys in a garage invented a technology that spread like. 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. 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.

joining the business desk where is all the latest business news good morning so we've been following the spanish bailout story but why do investors think of it all absolutely there the main judges really are right now we're having a look at the markets and they are indeed rallying on the news that just to recap for you over the weekend we had spade requesting a bailout of one hundred and twenty five billion dollars to rescue the banking system now that makes in the full year a nation to recede to receive aid now in the official statement by the spanish economy minister he said the loan will cover estimated capital requirements with an additional safety margin now as far as investors are concerned that's key because by now has a far wall should the greek election on june the seventh save ali a fresh round of markets and that's what the impact really frightened of. if we look at the european markets we see their response right now and they're rising by

the most more that month so investors concerns really just what the nikkei. up over two percent imposed during today's trading session and why there's other news as well and a lot of it's to do with china about china's exports jumped over fifty percent in may from a year earlier that was beating expectations now although industrial output of retail sales came in below estimates that alice's that will make chinese authorities continue measures to stimulate growth vest is a loving that say the country's central bank cutting interest rates for the first time in more than three years and that was on the worries of a slowdown. as have a look at how the u.s. markets finished up on friday as you can see they too had an optimistic session. and they still the best week of the year actually that was over the holiday hopes

that europe would be used to combat the economic crisis and of course we have done that has to be interesting to see if it's ms and carries you later on in such as this see how russia closed up because i don't suck today that she closed today and tomorrow for public holidays but in south today they did rather well the day that that was all because of oil climbing those also the optimism as well that news would be made over the european situation got the l.c.s. out of office and out the my six around four tenths of a cent imposed to the territory and if we move on we'll have a look at the current is the ruble was indeed trading it had a a mixed session to get the ball of cards is as you can see just want to talk about the euro as well though because it's actually poised for its biggest o'reily of the year. in eight months she's. looking to figure and that's all to do with the fact that the fear of the spanish situation has been eased some walls if we have a look at the oil prices is a surprise that they're getting an optimism over europe as well as the chinese data

that came out the exportation that was telling you all about as well as you can see that is getting it's taken a real battering over the last few weeks. as you can see markets for now i believe marina all right and so are we saying for margin indeed cadia for this day and looking forward to more news next hour well before that we've got plenty more coming your way here on r t first off the recap of our top stories stay with us.

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