well. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. syrian rebels called for foreign intervention and more weapons with violence reportedly raging outside the capital. a way for the french lab president along socialist and their allies to cure a majority in the first round of the parliamentary vote paving a path forward for. and police searched the homes of several russian opposition leaders in connection with a clash with at a major rally last month was that both protesters and officers injured.

live in our studios in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now it's four pm here in the russian capital good to have you with us we begin with syria and as you want to observe a struggle to make a difference in the conflict torn country international calls for military action are growing louder the new syrian opposition leader has demanded intervention even if it means bypassing international law the head of the group also made a plea for more arms for the rebels meanwhile damascus is on the defensive with the fighting reported near the capital as artie's month and now reports. 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 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 crew were set up by the rebels to be killed by the syrian army he said that they were deliberately led into a death 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 kate 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 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 the reason 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 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 and now there are a lot of mean indicate the syrian national council the turkey based opposition group has elected a new leader and he courage courage 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 much people as possible and even involved this group. the exile opposition movement the syrian national council has been an absolute opposition groups inside syria but now the new essence the leader is pledging to work together there's all sorts of mass defections from the regime and promised support for the armed rebels 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. the government rejean or we're not going to touch it nobody believes him incites you know in fact did jim brail of the opposition umbrella. it's a disgruntled matter in fact you know they don't get along with each other in the air you feel treated 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 they're really hardcore arm of the syrian opposition and i'm not sure

mr sieda the new ahead of the syrians or incisional council not cause what's really going on the ground. still ahead for you this hour here on r.g.p. is there a way to secure your online privacy during a song with as members of a cyber movement to debate whether there is such a thing as personal data. but the same job but different pay we explore the ongoing gulf in salary in the u.s. finding out whether you're a man or a woman. but first france's socialist president francois long time has been boosted after a left wing party secured a majority in the first round of the parliamentary election the forty six percent win could see along securing the lower house and receive a powerful member for his reform plans are to test our silly is in paris the results 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 a certain definitely there's no time for complacency or they can just sit around and expect the same results in the second round there are still the un people already the conservatives still trying to rally whatever support they can get most of dissipated a policy the fuss all along is the one that he's been a speaking about quite a lot during his campaign which is more growth for friends of the steerage 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 it limited france 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 he does 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 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. france will be taking a very different approach to the approach if you will also of course he wanted to draw french troops a year earlier than planned from afghanistan and he needs the support of both houses to get this through so france will land 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 end is if we if we remember. madrid's borrowing costs have fallen sharply and markets have risen in apparent relief at the hundred billion euro rescue for spanish banks however some economists fear the cash injection won't be enough the country's banks were last with billions of euros of balance after the property bubble burst the current

plan let spain avoid committing to additional costs imposed from the outside as happened in the case of greece are that in portugal are just books of the man who is often described as the euros founding father in an interview you can see later this hour former european commission president from on a prodi says the e.u. is troubles began with a lack of control. built when the euro was aboard the course clear. that we needed politically called more fiscal policy by your eyes in the program. and now with tory key to comb through the behavior of member states. in two thousand and three high rises the program gave. rise. germany and italy they told that this was a game they need. but we have heard from.

general see p.k. deal with. you a couple of years older here you were probably. more likely to forget the record store on the great he's used to come up to the leadership turns out he's not sure he's a lot of the story yet but we do say of us oh well somebody you see only a few knows that. he wants a full interview with former european commission president and prime minister of italy ramana prodi in just twenty minutes. russian investigators have searched the flats of. several prominent opposition leaders and called them in for questioning the search was ordered by a court in connection with the case over clashes at an anti-government rally last month when both protesters and riot police were injured that's not cross-line are tom barton for the latest details tom the search has been going on for several

hours now what do we actually know at this point. police have searched ten properties across moscow those of opposition leaders including alexei in the valley. solve t.v. presenter. check the search is welded by a moscow cold as part of a criminal investigation into a protest on may the sixth which turned violent with accusations of provocations by protesters and of excessive violence by police some opposition leaders have also been asked to appear for questioning to morrow and that's the date of a planned demonstration organizers are calling the march of the millions to protest alleged massive vote rigging in recent elections. right now barton thank you for that. but just four days into the euro twenty trial football championship and things are beginning to heat up in poland and ukraine and it's not just on the

pitch you crazy biggest airline is the lengths some thirty flights to and from the country due to technical problems aggressive fans and politics are also threatening to overshadow the event now police in poland have arrested fourteen people involved in a brawl between polish and croatian supporters just before the croatia are the new game on sunday it's the latest incident in a string of clashes that have already seen a number of teams warned over their fans behavior over in ukraine supporters are not shying away from politics either as our correspondent alexei years have ski now reports. ukraine's capital kiev is joining in with the feast of football that is certainly the year twenty two world football champ. ship with the national side to play a swedish national side here on monday evening out suddenly flans fans are flocking into the city with at least twenty five thousand arriving here on sunday alone certainly joining the huge army of swedish fans and fans from all over europe who have come here to witness this tournament now certainly from the organizational

point of view everything has been smooth so far and suddenly the tournament is all about sports it's all about football but to some extent you are 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 the mistreatment of ukraine's prime minister yulia timoshenko who is serving seven years in prison for the abuse of power and now we understand that some of the members some of the leaders of the member states of the e.u. member states have so often their stance somehow. 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 fans on we see the tent camp of the opposition those who are supporting the protesting her imprisonment they've been here for almost a year now and they decided against removing their town with

a euro twenty twelve coming to the ukrainian capital now suddenly they're still demanding that you get too much and go must be freed and everyone all the tourists coming here can observe the posters they hang out in english demanding the political prisoner you know so much as they describe or 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 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 played 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 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 in 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 are seeing every night from both poland and ukraine. and as for the drama on the pitch we've got the details in our sport with paul yes coming up in awful sports round up in around half an hour's time we'll preview monday's action sweden begin their campaign against co-host ukraine also at the bottom of the heavyweights in group d. is england take on france plus we'll also find out how hold in spain become the defense of their title all that and more coming up in around half an hour's time.

but you can't do much online with your phone without someone somewhere knowing what you're doing but there's one group on your side there called cyber funks movement and they're on julian assange to show here in r t to talk about their plans to keep your private data private. well i guess i think that it is important to just to to remember that censorship and surveillance are not issues of other places and you know of people in the west love to talk about iranians and the chinese and north koreans they need anonymity and they need freedom and they need all that stuff but we don't need it here and it's very important to know that actually it is not just oppressive regimes because if you happen to be in the top echelon of any regime it's not oppressive to you as it turns out right but i mean we consider the u.k. to be a wonderful place we consider generally people think sweden is a pretty pretty great place and yet you can see that when you fall out of favor with the people in power that you know you don't end up in a favorable position i mean but you're still alive right so i mean clearly that's

a symbol that it's a free country. about addition of julian assange just show airs on tuesday at eleven thirty g.m.t. and remember you can catch up on all previous programs anytime you like at our t dot com also online for you a hairy situation here a police department fires a jewish officer who refused to trim his beer marking a lawsuit for religious discrimination. and saudi arabia got talent but not a musical one both kingdom is launching its own entertainment cell but no singing or dancing allowed and women are banned from taking part of a full story of our tea dot com.

do you wish you all to have your own. one called time from the. mission now we. don't call. eighteen minutes past the hour here in moscow you're with archie a look now at some world news in brief for you egypt's interior ministry says former leader hosni mubarak is in a coma the eighty four year old is now in a cairo prison hospital serving a life term for his role in the killing of some eight hundred fifty protesters

during last year's uprising the bar is held to cheery aerated after he was given the life sentence earlier this month. obama struck a boston southwest pakistan killing six people on board and injuring dozens others explosives were planted on a motorbike and detonated by remote control when the vehicle was passing by no groups yet claimed responsibility in the region blinded by sectarian violence must be good. and two earthquakes have shaken northern afghanistan triggering landslides in a mountainous region casualties are feared as around twenty houses were destroyed more than seventy people most of them women and children were trapped in rubble after houses made of mud collapsed reports say the tremors from the quakes could be felt in the capital kabul. also clashes erupted in chile as capital as demonstrators protested against the screening of a documentary praising former dictator augusto pinochet police had to move tear gas

and water cannons to break up the angry crowds in santiago and estimated three thousand people were killed during pinochet's hardline rule while thousands more were arrested or forced into exile. america's women often outperform men in many spheres there's a stigma tell though their salaries still lag far behind their male colleagues and i explored why the pay gap still exists and why recent political moves to change that have felt. 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 any differently 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 still racism that still sexism i feel like there's a met 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 have like really big wage caps and is in part because it's hard to access that few others like the old boys. i don't remember me or could be your best friend or your worst enemy america's old boys network of the one nine hundred sixty s. depicted in the show mad men who put a man in there should be taken 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 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. r.t. new york. never know what's happening in the financial world katie joins us from

the business so earlier you were saying that investors will welcome a spammer's bailout is that still the case this hour it is and they say yeah we've had the global markets reacting positively today we had the asian stocks rising earlier in the session european markets continued to climb and u.s. stock futures are. indicating so against the wall street's later on another concern worse than to lay off some of the housing crisis resulting in. ways on the markets for some weeks now. the spanish government has now requested one hundred twenty six billion dollars to rescue the ailing banking sector and as i say investors are demonstrating that now in an official statement by the spanish economy minister he says the loan will cover estimated capital requirements with an additional safety margin so with that in mind the move means a spain now has a far wall should the greek election on june the seventeenth

a fresh round of market tumble movie only see how the footsie on the does is performing this they are indeed still climbing as i said the. tenth of a percent the dax one point eight percent in post to territory this also want to mention the base in spain the spanish bulls is still gaining around three and a half percent today there's also the concern with its really as well that i want to mention that foreign calls on our historical highs how will the two trillion euros of debt more as a share of the economy than any advanced economy after greece and japan of course as i say about spain but right now that's pushing its lead to the forefront of investors' minds as well what the situation is with that comes with that country because i come from a country ok moving on i want to show you the closing session for the asian markets and just show you how they finished up all the are as you can see the nikkei two

percent we have the hang sang two point four percent gains today earlier on in the session that wasn't just the news coming from spain that was really feeding the sentiment it was also to do with expos from china which indeed did get the expectations. that was fueling the sentiment now jumped over fifteen percent in may and that was from for me. as i say beating anticipations now industrial. output and retail sales they did come in below estimates but that was made but investors are certainly hoping that chinese authorities will continue with the measures to stimulate the growth of thursday the country's central bank cut its interest rate for the first time in more than three years and that was all the worries of a lowball slowdown was also domestic. going on in china at the moment as well.

moving on we take a look at small markets for you as i say still futures in the u.s. are pointing upwards this was the closing figures on a friday evening that was the optimism caused by the fact that they were called for the action would be taken by europe over the weekend and of course it has done so the. hour and a half actually now because the russian market is a public holiday here today so the markets are closed today and tomorrow but on stuff today. a lawyer and they were gaining much because oil was getting we know how correlated the markets are here with oil so as you can see we have the one point one percent of the mice a school tenths of a percent if you get into the car as is the see that the ruble how that makes performance against a basket cars is it gains against the u.s. dollar and lost out to the euro the common currency is still jumping it is set for the biggest climb against the greenback in eight months one twenty five fifty five

i mentioned the oil prices they are indeed dating and they are rising by the most in more than a month and that's because very much the situation in europe of course demand will therefore in craze and also china as well proved in polls in creasing. as you can see what we all price is good stuff as they will talk about something fun now is why not now and then the most he's a secret he's paying a record three million dollars to have along with warren buffett the eighty one year old billionaire. to buy casting out of favor stocks and really holds the notions of benefits home this chart take the win i can invite up to seven of his friends to share avail and have a chance with the legendary investor now interestingly buffett does say that the questions he gets at these lunches on anything to do with investing the very next to meet you have that i have all the latest news and he's all right thanks

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