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 extension from channel four has said that while working here in syria he and he's. were set up by the rebels to be killed by the syrian army he said that they were deliberately led into a trap and he thinks that he opposition wanted them to be killed by the governmental forces to blame it on damascus meanwhile the u.n. monitors who work 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 hama 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 the main reason is that the many many sides been involved in

this conflict here in syria not just governmental forces or. of rebels rebel fighters but that the results of the police third part. may include al qaida and all the jihad is whose goal is to topple the regime here in syria and over 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 and now there are a lot of mean indicate the syrian national council. to keep the east opposition group has elected a new leader and he is a kurd kurds the largest ethnic minority here in syria and they haven't been anyhow involved in this crisis here in the country we have. and heard any problem from the

area in north east of the country where they believe so with this nomination the fears are growing that the rebels are trying to involve as much people as possible and even involved they say i think growth and that may lead to even more violence and more violence escalations here in syria where international point of trying to mask us all the syrian national council has been at odds with some opposition groups inside syria and the new s.n.c. has pledging rapprochement but a few times correspondent have escobar says the man and the council are too disconnected from the front line. who goes after blur barholm go yonder is a very shady character he has very good kurdish corrections of course so many connections as well good he has also tried to plea to the christian and so they although i say look if there is. the government or rejean or we're not going to touch it nobody believes him incites you know in fact did jim braille of the

opposition. it's a disgruntled matter of fact you know they don't get along with each other in the air if you'll treat 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 but i believe qatar though where i am at the moment and this is a blue subject to be discussed here in qatar i couldn't find anybody here who would discuss a train clee what the intelligence services are actually doing all 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 is it still can also know what's really going on the ground. always more news analysis and pictures in our web site r t v dot com

online of the moment and on 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 students protesters but they refused to give an over to asian 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 tasso well socialists are celebrating at is 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 well let'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 consolidated 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. most of dissipated is the one that he's been 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 implemented frats 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 you also promise 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 and this is certainly against from sixty two this is against the. driven path that 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. trench critiques are. interesting because they're not always go with the overall cycle in europe when we do see certainly is the rise of those nationalist policies all over the board in europe and this is clearly the case in france as well as we are in europe and this is a phenomenon that they did it didn't cross the board. when it comes to the rise of socialism. or whisky in the recent elections in europe the. parties in power have about the tendency to lose election they don't happen in greece in no man's in spain and in italy so this is a situation where incumbents are in trouble. now coming up later in the program here in 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 a 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 a rest of fourteen people involved in a brawl between irish polish and gratian supporters just before the island game on sunday it's the latest incident in a string of clashes that has already seen a number of teams war and over their fans behavior over in ukraine the fans are not shying away from politics either as our correspondent here cesky now reports. ukraine's capital kiev is joining in with a feast of goodwill 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 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 were twenty twelve is being overshadowed by boat six 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 former ukraine's prime minister yulia tymoshenko 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 cardiff 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 fan zone and just meters away from the entrance of the found zone we see the tent camp of the opposition of those who are supporting the protesting her imprisonment they've been here 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 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 your merkel will decide to come here and witness her side play

some other side in the quarterfinals but for now i understand that she decided against coming here as well as almost all of the members of the dutch government 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 how 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 see every night from both poland and ukraine is here chance here reporting there will of course you know we'll have more on the drama of the pages in his sports update later in the program but here's a sneak. i will indeed i'm here 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 the team looked very good in qualifying we're going to have much much more in the in sports today next hour with me plus 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 excellence 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 of tuesday's 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 early stones and glass at officers the protests was over a lot of important 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 just spoke to the man who's often called the euro's founding father the next hour former european commission president romano prodi says the ease troubles began with a lack of control. of the euro worth of gold or. clear. to supporters are your visor. program. and now toward key to comb through

the behavior of bestie two thousand and three i rise with the program we gave france germany and italy they told that this was a game they need then i could. write the cocoa trolled by the eurostar and they said no and so the greeks would cheat everything through before they have a budget is my towards. but nobody likes coming forward because of the greek government shoot at them no doubt and that if it was six seven per cent was the day the search result is not to be state it is about doing it you know so you're open to a good notoriety to peace and goodwill. and only form the opposition group in georgia is gathering steam with thousands rallying in the caucasus country's second largest city the georgian dream party is

the brand child 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 criticised the screws increasingly for kerry and. unfortunately very sure has not gotten enough traction among voters president sarkozy this government has been known to do with opposition focuses quite harshly one particularly brutal credit only 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 crackdown and it will have to rely.

these demonstrations may be due to our media coverage to the opposition. i also. 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 when the by a suicide bomber in the city of jost the blast triggered street protests in which six people died in a separate a tab gunman 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 post

hold its first national election since small more could be was deposed voters will head to the polls eighteen days later than planned apparently because of logistical challenges maybe authorities haven't yet complete of the list of candidates 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 and what's worse is that conservatives are blocking legislation to get fair pay as explains. he said it landscape of america's professional course has undergone major reconstruction over the duckies women now make up fifty percent of the nation's lever for. 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 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 in nearly all occupations including nursing teaching and even secretarial work but experts say the pay gap has less to do with qualifications and much more to do with stereotypes surrounding gender united states that definitely has a lot of cases where women are bluntly discriminated and where they are just discriminated. based 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 that with the double

master's that i'm going to go for my ph d. man doesn't have to do that for this move if you feel that you know you need to be paid more do you need to like put it with don and say that i need to be paid more this sort of raises in the sexes and i feel like there's a myth men feel that 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 like really big which absent is in part because it's hard to access that feel like the old boys' network and remember 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 put a man in there a salute to. it 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 is a 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 limited maybe even more importantly than that one seventy percent of the actual sharing the stuff that drives average and stuff that makes. as dynamic a platform as it 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. r.t. new york. requests of 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 a marina they've been open for about twenty minutes or so and there is a sense of relief in the air for investors and this way 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 spain has requested a bailout of up to one hundred twenty five billion dollars to rescue the banking system and that was a coup to about ten percent of g.d.p. hey that makes them the fourth year our nation to recede. 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 worse so 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 during 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 the nikkei which is in japan which is actually now closed that was a closing paragraph or two percent the hang sign 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 lot to be pleased about exports jumped over fifteen percent in may and that's from a year earlier now industrial output of retail sales they did come below estimates that means the there's still this kind of hope that chinese authorities will continue with measures to stimulate their growth now 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 optimism 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 softer the moscow time this is how the russian markets are getting on 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 that the r.t.s. one point two percent of the mice and four tenths of a percent 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 mixed performance against the basket of currencies at the euro really gaining because of the spanish situation one twenty six so it is gaining 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 miles or speculation in spain and also those 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. mark it's going to be following them. all right thanks very much katie for this and recap of the top stories is coming your way shortly.

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dot com. welcome back you're watching our take here's a look at the top stories syria's battle screen closer to president assad's doorstep with bomb blasts and gun battles in damascus. around the country foreign pressure and calls for intervention are mounting while russia and other mediators push for peace through diplomacy. france looks left president alonso shalit march in a parliamentary election they and their allies secured more than forty six percent in the first round giving a powerful boost to alonso reform mandate. for the whole dance and political activists threatened to mar the euro two thousand and twelve championships in poland and ukraine just four days into the tournament but fastened jumped on their politicians bandwagon and boycotting the tournament over human rights issues. they

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