serious doubts creep closer to president asif doorstep the foreign pressure mounts while russia and other video push for peace through diplomacy. france looks left president alon socialist steal a march in round one of parliamentary election giving a powerful boost to his reform mandate. for behold again sam political activists threatened to mar the euro two thousand and twelve championships in poland and ukraine just four days into the tournament. eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie welcome

to the program as that u.n. observer struggled to make a difference in conflict or in syria international calls for 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 reason often has the latest from the syrian capital. hughes we've been receiving in the last few days indicate that the rivals are gaining on the syrian regime we've been hearing here in damascus explosions and can battle 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 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 a chemical weapon and terror attack to blame it on damascus 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. were set up by the rebels to be killed by the syrian army he has said that they were deliberately led into a 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 to try to trying to do their best to gauge was 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 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 or. the rebels rebel fighters but the results of the police third part. it may include. the jihad is whose goal is to topple the regime here in syria and all of these toys involved in this conflict may be responsible for the killing and that also could be a provocation so yes it makes. the war 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 the east opposition group has elected a new leader and. kurds curry's 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 these nomination fears are growing that the rebels are trying to involve as. people as possible and even involve these ethnic groups and that may lead to even more violence and more violence escalations here in syria where international reporting there from damascus all the syrian national council has been at odds with some opposition groups inside syria and the new s. and c. has pledging. but asia times correspondent have 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 corrections of course so many connections as well but he has also tried to play to the christian answer there

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 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 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 a crane 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 ing 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 in our website r t v dot com online of the moment and godly scandal file season a police raid on the former head of the vatican bank allegedly exposed misdeeds inside one of the world's most secretive organizations. also. the montreal may have police tear gas and pepper spray student protesters but they refused to give an over to ration fee rises the video the analysis and the reaction are at our tito's com. now 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 a lawyer before mandate to get the details let's now talk to our europe correspondent tests are celia hello there tasa well socialists are celebrating as

their victory pretty much security or might they get a surprise say next sunday. well the result of the first round certainly is a very good moral boost for the socialist party in trying to get a majority of the lower house of parliament however nothing is certain definitely there's no time for complacency they can't just sit around and expect the same results in the second rail it's not forget that the actual voter turnout this time is just forty eight point three percent now with more people come out to vote in the second round the question is which side are they going to vote for and also there are still the u.n. people already the conservatives still trying to rally whatever support they can get they're trying to get consolidate the right as the left had done with the left side of the whole campaign and now again they can't just sit around because you have people still trying to decide whether you have the national front are they going to cast their vote for the national front when it comes down to not voting

for who they actually like but for the ones of the like it's the same thing that happened with the presidential elections we're seeing it again in the legislative elections so certainly a good morale boost for the socialist but the question is are they going to get a socialist majority or will they have to rely on their lead allies on the left and this is what it seems like they will have to try to maintain that consolidation of the left if they're going to expect anything to get through with a socialist president all right well along made a range of promises during his presidential campaign so what are his most anticipated moves expected to be. well most of dissipated is the one that he's been this speaking about quite a lot during his campaign which is more growth for friends. that's on the one hand and how this translates for the french people is that more jobs and taxing the rich it's this tax and spend policy that he wants limited from it's a seven as much as seventy five percent tax for the rich certainly not something that conservatives wanted so if you want to get this

a policy like that through he will need the support of the lower house let's remember the socialists already have the support of the senate so it will be much easier to get things through he also promised about sixty thousand teaching jobs in the next five years again if he wants to get this through he needs the support as well as retirement age bringing it down to sixty eight and this is certainly against from sixty two this is against the. driven path of the rest of europe is taking so france will be taking a very different approach to your city approach if you will also of course he wanted to draw french troops a year earlier than from afghanistan and he needs the support of both houses to get this through so france will gunning for a majority in the parliament and let's not forget that it's necessary that he provides concrete results for the french people the patience is very low but this point and the nicolas sarkozy became deeply unpopular for coming in with promises and not fulfilling any of those promises it's what got him out of the if you

remember all right thanks very much indeed for bringing us the details are still your reporting from paris for us. and camilla grande from the foundation for strategic research has the potential victory of the french socialist reflects the call for change around europe. prints pretty. interesting because they're not always go with the sacred in europe when we do see. the rise of those nationalists. all over the bold in europe and this is clearly the case the problems were in europe and this is a phenomenon that is happening across the board. when it comes to the right solution is what. we're hearing the recent versions of in europe and the. policies in power. through the direction that happened in greece in. spain if you need to be so this is

a situation where incumbents are in trouble now coming up later in the program here and our teeth will 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 woman gets just seventy seven percent seventy seven cents. just four days and to a euro two thousand and twelve football finals and the atmosphere 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 in poland have arrested fourteen people involved in a brawl between irish polish and creations of borders just before the core a schilens 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 in ukraine the fans are not shying away from politics either as our correspondents here chefs can reports. the

greats capital kiev is joining in with all that is suddenly 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 walking into the city with at least twenty five thousand arriving here on sunday alone joining this 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 suddenly the tournament is all about sports it's all about football but to some extent you were twenty twelve is being overshadowed by politics 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 so often their stance 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 here in 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 fan zone we see the tent camp of the opposition those who are supporting the protesting her imprisonment they've been here in fact 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 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 it's most likely as they describe it 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 when to stand 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 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 men . always attend such games when they play during the year was decided against coming here also understand that the dutch support is ahead of their game against denmark in the city of how 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 i see a chance here reporting there will of course you know we'll have more on the drama

of the pitches in his sports update later in the program but here's a sneak preview i want to hear next hour with sports in a marina but it's all about the three f.'s today in sports former french open and of course this the football euro twenty twelve is what we're talking about ukraine the co-hosts of course the get their first game of the competition under way this evening against sweden a team you look very good in qualifying we're going to have much much more in the in sports today next hour with me because of course the rest of the action as i say it was a busy weekend. all right and don't miss the ten minutes of actual ins with him later here on r.t. . now to other stories here that we're following today the police in moscow are searching the home of opposition leader on the scene of the apartments of other prominent opposition figures are also under investigation the searches come i have two days planned millions march in moscow scheduled to coincide with

a holiday marking the foundation of modern russia police say the search is in relation with street protests held on may the sixth and there were hundreds of arrests when the rally turned violent with some demonstrators hurling stones and glass at officers a protest was over a lot of input in returning to power and came a day before his inauguration ceremony. now economists fear 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 and four people are out of work ministers want to reassure investors and direct the crisis fire wall spanish banks were left with billions of euros of bad loans after the property bubble burst sending the country into a deep recession i spoke to the man who's often called the euro's founding father well next hour former european commission president romano prodi says that used troubles began with a lack of control. when the euro was born it was clear. that we

needed political leaders come on fiscal policy i advised the program. and i was torn to comb through the behavior of a member state in two thousand and three i rise in the program we gave france germany and italy they told that this was the game they need then i could. read the cocoa troll by the eurostar and they said no and so that we could cheat everything but. kelly forgot about giving you so much awards. but nobody likes california because of the greek government cheated there are no doubt and that if it was six seven lb that was the day the search result is not to be state it is a bad dream you know so you are open to a good otoh if you do believe that old.

and ill informed opposition group in georgia is gathering steam with thousands rallying in the caucasus country second largest city the georgian dream party is the brainchild brainchild of the nation's richest billionaire who hopes to challenge president saakashvili in an election layer this year right now polls put his party around twenty percent behind the ruling united national movement the director of the new york based eurasia democracy initiative warns that the government's response to the rallies may not be peaceful. no the opposition has criticized this use increasingly for kerry and kerry and unfortunately very sure has not gotten enough traction among voters president sarkozy has government has been known to do with opposition focuses quite harshly this one particularly brutal crackdown if you remember occurred in two thousand and seven ironically the fourth anniversary of the rose revolution. the opposition sticks to its useful methods and have still for you is government going to do to protect our own and it will have to

rely. on the useful and some instructions denied media coverage to the opposition. i also do we. sure do. look at some other stories from around the world militants from nigeria's radical islamist group boko haram have attacked two churches fifty people were one the by a suicide bomber in the city of jost the blast triggered street protests in which six people died in a separate a tad gunmen opened fire on worshippers in bordeaux killing one person and injuring three others buckle her arms carried out a number of church attacks and its attempts to impose sharia law across nigeria. violence in the capital of chile it 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 were arrested or forced into exile. previous postpone its first national election since mom could aafia was deposed voters will head to the polls eighteen days later than planned apparently because of logistical challenges levy authorities haven't yet completed the list of candidates and voter registration as behind schedule the july seventh election will be a milestone for the v.m. as it attempts to build a democratic leadership. america's women are now top of the class over matter when it comes to getting advanced degrees and there is a sting in the tail though the air salaries still lags far behind their male counterparts now what's worse is that conservatives are blocking legislation to get fair pay as explained. these medical and skate 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 a full time working women in the u.s. just seventy seven cents for every dollar made by a man according to recent statistics men earn higher salaries says 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 you don't want 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 more this so brazen that so sexism i feel like there's a limit to like men feel they have a higher power a woman just 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 clearing the way chaps and is in part because it's hard to access that few others like that all. 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 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 women maybe even more importantly than that and seventy percent of the actual sharing the stuff that drives ad revenue and stuff that makes facebook as dynamic a platform as it is is and the question why 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. regresses the world of business now for more on what's happening in europe and we've been following the spanish bailout story of course so what's the european markets response they are well right now they are indeed rallying in the rain that they've been open for about twenty minutes or so and there is a sense of relief in the air for investors also wait we saw a massive sell off all of the concern we were witnessing we'll have a look at the figures so any let me just have a recap for you and explain the situation that's going on right now. has requested a bailout of up to one hundred twenty five billion. dollars to rescue the banking system or that was a coup to about ten percent of g.d.p.

that makes them the fourth year a nation to receive a thousand after ireland portugal and of course greece as well no space economy is twice as big as all three of those countries put together so investors were incredibly concerned we had their bond yields are reaching historical highs and that was causing a real concern and investors wanted the situation to be sorted before it got any action has been taken right now we are witnessing relief on the markets for you so let's have a look at the figures and see the sea and the dax right now and see what the figures actually look like as you can see the thirty one point seven percent up in positive territory the dax two point eight percent in positive territory in the first hour of trade and that was very much expected because the asian markets they too have been responding with great optimism actually as you can see that a k. which is in japan which is actually now close to that was a closing figure

a two percent the hindsight in china want to concentrate on china for now if i may because there's been a lot of domestic figures i want to talk out coming out which is really boost momentum as well in the region they are responding to the exports figures that came out today that were way above expectations there was certainly a loss to be pleased about exports jumped over fifteen percent in may and that's from a year earlier now industrial output of retail sales or they did come below estimates that manes the there's still this kind of hope that chinese authorities will continue with measures to stimulate their growth on thursday the country's central bank cut its interest rates for the first time in more than three years and that is because of a worry of a slowdown. well have a look at wall street and see how they closed up on friday as you can see there was also to miss them in the they were very much hoping and believing europe would do

something over the weekend to tackle the crisis and indeed they have so we would imagine that they will. again today when they open up for their session later in the solving moscow time this is how the russian markets are getting all because they were open on saturday over the weekend it's actually public holidays today and tomorrow and they too were feeling the optimism too after real taking a real battering out she it must be said last week we got the r.t.s. one point two percent the mice it's around four tenths of a cent in positive territory that was today over the weekend as i say it's holiday time for investors here this weekend enjoying the let's have a look at some exchange rates and we'll see how the ruble finished up it was a mix performance against the basket of currencies at the euro really gaining because of the spanish situation one twenty six so it is getting a bit of a nightmare week a last week when investors were really selling as she poised for its biggest rally

against the greenback in eight months so that's good stuff all right let's talk about oil it's no surprise that is now rising for the most in more than five months or speculation in spain and also the export figures that came out from china as you can see that eighty five dollars per barrel for the light sweet on the brant are one hundred one dollars a barrel. markets going to be following them. all right thanks very much katie for this and a recap of the top stories is coming your way shortly. there

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