syrian rebels called for foreign intervention and more weapons with violence reportedly raging outside the capital. a live for the french lab president the long socialists and their allies secure a majority in the first round parliamentary vote paving a path forward for. ample leave searched the homes of several russian opposition leaders in connection with crotches at a major rally last month which left both protesters and officers injured.

it's five pm in moscow this is r.t. coming to you live from the news and now a with our top story and as you and observers struggle to make a difference in conflict torn syria international calls for military action are growing louder the new syrian opposition leader has demanded intervention in the country 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 finding reported near the capital sorties re-offend otieno reports. news we've been receiving in the last few days indicate that the rebels are gaining on the syrian regime we've been hearing here in damascus explosions and gunfire between oppositions and governmental forces and it's been much much more frequent than ever before 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 he's. were set up by the rebels to be killed by the syrian army he has said that they were deliberately loaded 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 are 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 verify. 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 or. 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 these saw is involved in this conflict may be responsible for the killing and that also could be a provocation another law mean indicate the syrian national council the turkey based opposition group has elected a new leader and he's a kurd 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 this nomination fears a growing that the rebels are trying to involve as most people as possible and even involve this group. let's get more analysis now on syria from mark almond and the relations are from bilk at university in turkey and he joins us live via broadband from oxford professor are men u.s. senator john mccain has said he's quote glad some arab gulf states are providing weapons to the rebels and said he wants washington to in fact follow that lead regardless of concerns over extremist elements how close is washington to actually doing this. or is it was already doing it indirectly if you remember in libya we were told. by the americans on the ground yes. american british special and special. jordanian special forces in the country so the

supply of weapons of the. rebels i think is already taking place and so the information. advisors to the libyan rebels. last year are now based in turkey right on the border with syria. if that is taking place obviously it's under the table but the new opposition as the leader has demanded intervention even if it means bypassing. international law the un security council washington has also voiced its readiness to act where do you think these calls are heading are we heading for an over the table per se support actual lethal support what it seems to be clear that the united states and britain and france have made a strategic decision by a long haul there as a way of putting pressure on iran changing the whole chessboard of the middle east and therefore if they can achieve that through syrian domestic courses through

deniable support of the arab special forces on the. supplies of weapons on the do that ultimately i think they will not wish to accept defeat assad's regime survived it would be a huge geopolitical so for them our relationship with my states and its allies in syria and iran are overwhelmingly ultimately in favor of the western states but of course to go in on the ground i could be written in kosovo in one thousand nine again sort of there is a big risk for them there could be casualties on our side it's not clear and western public opinion is also committed to reaching change on the crisis there and saw this they saw what happened they are wrong for instance that still haunts americans under the hands of. the government how much goes there is no alternative to coffee and in peaceful and hopes to settle the crisis through diplomatic means but the syrian rebels have already retreated from the u.n. initiative very publicly really and do have strong backing from washington they've

made it clear obviously not publicly that peace is not the way they want to go so how do we get out of this. this is the problem and the problem for country like russia and china is that. the international community americans british french. so are degree or voting regime change and supporting one side in a civil war the russians were accused of providing weapons to syria but certainly neither russia nor china has the direct involvement and so it's still a very one sided international conflict in this case but of course would want to become a multi sided conflict that would explain the dangerous and that is the risk of course of an explosion in this region. if that goes as the u.s. and its allies are eager to see happen what's the likelihood of opening up a pandora's box of sectarian violence and handing power to which islamist factions you mentioned iraq but how specifically is this going to affect the region

surrounding well. first of all became saudi arabia and the gulf arab states are supporting quite deliberately. of interest groups who if you. do decide to spend dominate the local grand scale. then there is the problem these groups are very intolerant not only to watch the christian minorities and also the whites and shiites but also sometimes yes not monarchies the new head of the syrian national council the kurds. great tension between the kurds and the more so on the interest groups who form the backbone of the rebellion so the risk inside syria is an explosion but all these groups of course straddle more of those curves in iraq and i'm talking of the christians in some level of i'm not very happy about the rise of sunni fundamentalists groups even though they have actually more suspicious of his insurance so that they were used to a civil war in syria will turn out to be a series of explosions around the borders drawing in other countries we've already

seen the government in iraq the americans helped to install just like the idea some of the respect for saudi arabia let's call them to feel threatened by saudi arabia and it's actually one of entrance friends in the gulf. obviously a very complicated situation on the ground there oftentimes as black and white mark almond trying to break it down at least for us as simple as you could thank you for that analysis because some of professor from bill can't university thank you. so had for you this hour on r t is there a way to secure your online privacy while doing a stunt winces members of a cyber movement who debate whether there is such a thing as personal data. but first france's socialist president francois hollande has been boosted after a left wing party secured a major majority i should say in the first round of the parliamentary election the

forty six percent win could see along secure the lower house and receive a powerful mandate for his reform plans or at least us are cilia is in paris. 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 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 that is the one that he's been speaking about quite a lot during his campaign which is more growth for friends not for stereo that's on the one hand and how this translates for the french people is that more jobs taxing the rich it's this tax and spend policy that he wants to implement in france 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 as well as retirement age bringing it down to sixty and this is certainly against from sixty two this is against the. driven pact that the rest of europe is taking so 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 but 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 an apparent relief at the hundred billion euro rescue for spanish banks however some economists fear the cash injection why won't be enough the country's banks were left with billions of euros of bad loans after the property bubble burst the current plan but spain avoid committing to additional costs imposed from the outside as happened in the case of greece ireland and portugal are just spoke to the man who is often described as the euro's founding father in an interview can see in just over an hour former european commission president romano prodi says the troubles began with back of control. when the euro was good or was clear. that we needed. because the leaks from one fiscal policy i you guys in the program. and now with tory key to comb through the behavior of a member state. in two thousand and three i rise to the program again.

france. germany and italy they told that this was a game they support a need. but we have very. good. general would say the caveat that the us. was going to be here were the problem they. wanted to forget they could join on the great he's used to. kind of leadership can't always notion he's a lot of the story yet but we do say of us want to somebody only if we lose it. he wants the full interview with the former european commission president and next prime minister into the romano prodi in just over an hour. another news russian investigators have searched the flats of several prominent opposition

figures and called them in for questioning the search was ordered by a court in connection with the case over clashes that and the government rally last month when both protesters and riot police were inserted let's get the latest now from marty's tom barr following this developing story tom searches have been going on since this morning what do we actually know at this point. police are searching ten properties across more scope those of opposition leaders including the blogger alexei in the valley surrogate without self and the t.v. presenter to send your sub check. they've seized computer disks and clothing amongst other things and say that in the flat of concern your subject they found one and a half million euros in cash the searches were ordered by a quarter as part of a criminal investigation into protests on may the six most previous protests have been peaceful but this one descended into fighting with hundreds of arrests and

accusations of excessive violence both by protesters and police a new law massively increases the fines for violations on protests up to seven thousand euros and more thought. opposition leaders have also been asked to appear for questioning tomorrow but that's also the day of a planned demonstration which organizers are calling the march of the millions to protest allegations of mass vote rigging in recent elections. right. tom barton reporting live from central moscow thanks tom. you can't do much online or with your phone without someone somewhere knowing what you're doing but there is one group on your side there called the cypherpunks movement and they're on julian assange just show here on r.t. to talk about their plans to keep your private data private. we talk about internet

censorship it is about centralizing the power to determine what people are many be able to access or not and whether it's government censorship or also private on censorship there are changing the architecture of the internet from one universal network to a balcony ization of smaller networks but what we are discussing since the beginning are all global issues whether we're talking of the the financial system going henri whether we're talking of corruption whether we're talking of geopolitics or energy or environment or i don't know all of these are global problems that mankind is facing today and we have one still one global tool between our hands that enables better communication better sharing of knowledge better participation in in political and democratic process what i feel when i suspect is that a global universal internet is the only tool we still have between our hands to saw

a rebel those global issues and this is why this is a central fight that we have to fight and that we all have a responsibility here too to fight. that edition of julius launches show airs tuesday eleven thirty g.m.t. and remember you can catch up on all previous programs any time you'd like at r.t. dot com also on line for you harry relation new york's police department fires a jewish officer who refused to treat his beard sparking a lawsuit well this is discrimination. in saudi arabia has got talent but not a musical one a town in the gulf kingdom is launching its own entertainment show but no singing or dancing allowed and women are banned from taking part in find out more at our t.v. dot com. just four days into the euro twenty twelve

football championship and things are beginning to heat up in poland and ukraine and it's not just on the pitch pole police in poland have arrested fourteen people involved in a brawl between polish and croatian supporters just before sunday's match between croatia and arland in the latest incident it's the latest incident i should say in a string of clashes that have already seen a number of teams warned over their fans behavior but the problem surrounding euro twenty trial don't end there ukraine's biggest airline is delaying up to thirty flights to and from the country let's get the latest from our to select your sense he was in the capital kiev alexei tell us how much just drops and has been caused by these flight delays i imagine lots of people trying to get to ukraine and do you crane at this time. well unlike poland said so far has been pretty much perfect in ukraine from the organizational point of view would have been no fights only minor bar brawls have been reported but there was

a serious complication this way as far as i understand with the ukrainian biggest airline is delaying about thirty flights at the moment we understand that need only three thousand people to not reach their destinations in particular the host city of that yes where england will play france in about several in about three hours from now certainly a very big game and one of the biggest games of the group stages and among the those who could not cooking not to reach the city of that yes is english and bass is the british ambassador to ukraine was also staying at the airport and they built a flight the press service of the airport does not report what is actually is the problem with the airline but we also understand that the very same airline cannot deliver their planes on sign from the european cities from copenhagen and from all the cities which the where the passengers the transiting through key of two other ukrainian cities where their teams play definitely we're waiting for the situation to be resolved but this has been a general problem so far in ukraine with. era almost every flight from europe being

delayed for at least four or five hours in a past three or four days other than that everything has been perfect here the atmosphere is completely positive the fans are gearing up for the big games which we are will be experiencing tonight england france and ukraine will host sweden here in kiev so you can see probably the many people wearing yellow and blue uniforms here we are expecting a very interesting game today. yes i think could indeed get confusing i think they tell us politics i hear is also threatening to overshadow the event we hear ukrainian fans are getting well involved in what's happening in the capital tell us more. this tournament has received some political overtones even before it had started with several e.u. leaders saying there. boy call it the joy of the championship because of the situation with the great school the prime minister yulia timoshenko was starting seven years in prison for the use of power certainly we are feeling something of

this something all these during the four days which the tournament have been going on right next to the fan zone here in central kiev is the thames camp of the opposition which has been here for year they decided not to remove it for the euro twenty twelve period moreover they put on banners in english explaining the situation with huge machine called calling her a political prisoner and demanding her to be released immediately certainly all the fans all the tourists well coming here can see that and have their own impression of that but we also understand that angela merkel the german chancellor was always been attending the german national national teams games when they were played at the euros or world cups decided to gainst coming to ukraine in reaction to the units mustn't go prison and her treatment in the heart of the prison also we understand that the dutch government has decided not to come here only the minister of sport has arrived and the dutch fans when they had their game in the stadium a lot of they marched the streets of the city wearing t. shirts saying free so definitely some political overtones are are present here

we'll see you have to wait and see in the next three weeks or so until the tournament is happening here in ukraine and poland whether this will escalate somehow but for now the situation as it is we are following all the developments in ukraine and poland and we'll be bringing all the developments to you. here and you know if they are says he live from kenya thanks for that. georgia's opposition leader has been fined almost eighty thousand dollars for giving out t.v. antennas to voters who didn't even the sheeny believes it's an attempt by president saakashvili it to stop opposition media ahead of parliamentary elections later this year authorities say it's a violation of the country's law on political parties here on the street is georgian dream group is expected to provide the main challenge to the ruling party of that. really tens of thousands of people have been gathering in george's major cities with peaceful rallies in support of the opposition. some world news in

brief egypt's interior ministry says former leader hosni mubarak is in a coma egyptian media report that the heart of the eighty four year old stopped twice and doctors had to use defer to later to restart it so barak's health deteriorated after he was given a life sentence earlier this month for his role in the killing of some eight hundred fifty protesters during last year's uprising. a bomb has struck a boss in south west 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 a region blinded by sectarian violence. clashes erupted in chile as capital as demonstrators protested against the screening of a documentary praising former dictator augusto pinochet police had to use tear gas and water cannons to break up the angry crowds in santiago and that's to made it

three thousand people were killed during pinochet's hardline rule which thousands more were arrested or forced into exile. 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. to me that is here now with the latest business and although the russian markets are closed today it's a rally all across the board globally understand is that all about spanish optimism that's right and these were the factors that spain over the weekend requested bailout money of one hundred twenty five billion dollars in order to help rescue its ailing banking system and that makes it the fourth nation to receive

international aid now in an official statement by the spanish economy minister he said the loan will cover estimated capital requirements with an additional safety margin so with that in mind the move means that spain now has a fire wall should the greek election on june seventeenth unleash a fresh round of market turmoil well for now let's take a look at what's going on the european markets and seoul looking positive for the footsie adding half a percent of the x. around two percent u.s. futures are also pointing to a positive start of the day although we have to admit that this initial steve has gone away the ibex was up five percent the spanish index is now up just around two percent even less than that over in asia we've also had a pretty positive session on monday as you can see there very bullish actually the nikkei and the hang saying out of around two percent that's on the back of macroeconomic data coming up from china let's look at this in more detail china's

exports jumped over fifteen percent in may from a year earlier beating expectations however industrial output and retail sales came in below estimates and say that this will make chinese authorities continue measures to stimulate growth on thursday the country's central bank cut its interest rates for the first time in more than three years on worries about a global slowdown. all right elsewhere secular what's going on first of all commodities like sweet brands are gaining around one dollar per barrel on this positive news coming over from spain which may indicate that demand will bolster up in the euro zone all together should the euro zone contain its crisis in russia as a need to mentioned earlier in the hour the markets are closed today also closed tomorrow for public holidays well on saturday they were open it's a bit over weird system here in moscow the r.t.s. gained around one percent my six a bit less than that on

a stronger ruble secular what was going on in currencies the russian ruble on the on saturday a lost value versus the year of the banisters strengthen slightly against the dollar whereas the euro right now is gaining value against that on the back of positive sentiment coming from spain. also an anonymous bidder is paying a record three and a half million dollars to have lunch with warren buffett the eighty one year old billionaire weren't his fortune by cashing in two out of favor stocks annually hold such an option to a benefit of homeless charity now the winner can invite up to seven of his friends to share a meal and have a chat with the legendary investor interestingly buffett says most of the questions he gets at such lunches are not about investing wonder what they're talking about let me use this opportunity and say i charge three times less and then warren buffett does come to you and get some advice and i'm thinking about investing to me

thanks for that update we'll see you next hour a recap of our team's top stories is just ahead. the. comfort is the least you have. for your money is the last you need to if you travelled this way. language is

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