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 said that they were deliberately led into a death trap and he thinks that the opposition wanted them to be killed by the governmental forces to blame it on damascus meanwhile the u.n. monitors who work here on the ground 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 much how many people were killed and who's to blame but this is extremely hard to do and the details of very

hard to very far. because there is a lot of confusion and the main reason is that the many many sides been involved in this conflict here in syria not just governmental forces or. of rebels rebel fighters but that the results are the least part. it may include. 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 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 is courage the courage of the largest ethnic minority here in syria and they haven't been anyhow involved in this crisis here in the country we haven't heard any problem from the area in north east of the country where. leave

so with this nomination the fear is a growing that the rebels are trying to involve as much people as possible and even involve this group. let's get more analysis now on syria from mark almond and in a related class or from bill cut university in turkey he joins us live via broadband from oxford professor amen 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 i was already doing it indirectly if you remember in libya we were told there was no external barred americans british and french on the ground. american british special french special forces. and jordanian special forces in the country so the supply of weapons and even a supply of personnel to the rebels i think is already taking place and so the

information out sagal so hold civilian advisors to the libyan rebels. last year are now based in turkey right on the border with syria hundreds if that is taking place obviously it's under the table but the new opposition as and the leader has demanded intervention even if it means bypassing international law the u.n. 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 well it seems to be clear that the united states or britain france of made a strategic decision by a long haul as a way of putting pressure on iran changing the. chessboard of the middle east and therefore if they can achieve that through syrian domestic horses through deniable support of the arab special forces launched a surprise weapon. so no to that but ultimately i think they would not wish to

accept a defeat assad's regime survived it would be a huge geopolitical so for them most of all the power relations who are 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 by could be written in kosovo in one thousand nine hundred serbia is a big risk for them you know it's there could be casualties on our side it's not clear western public opinion is also committed to regime change on the price of their own soldiers they saw what happened well iraq for instance still holds american public at the hands of. the moscow says no alternative to coffee and peace plan and hopes to settle the crisis through diplomatic means but the syrian rebels have already retreated from the un initiative very publicly really and do have a 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. in this is the

problem and the problem for countries like russia and china is that. the international community americans british and french are in remain so active or voting regime change and supporting one side in a civil war the russians are 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 dangers 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 so we've seen islamist factions you mentioned iraq but how specifically is this going to affect the region surrounding well theory well first of all the kind of saudi arabia in the gulf arab states are supporting quite deliberately or with money. weston's of interest groups

who if you. want to. do just understand dominate your local branch. then there is the problem these groups are very intolerant of money towards the christian minorities and also some shiites but also sometimes yes not monarchies do you have the syrian national council or kurd. tensions 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 in all these groups of course straddle more of those curves can be found in iraq i'm talking of the christians and level of i'm not very happy about the rise of sunni fundamentalists groups even though they have actually more suspicious of his shots so that they were used by a civil war in syria will even turn out to be a series of explosions around the borders during all the countries i really see the government in iraq called americans to install just like the idea of free from the

respect for saudi arabia because let's come to feel threatened by saudi arabia and it's actually harm of interest for much of the gulf. i was a very complicated situation on the ground there often change lives 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 that some other faction professor from bill can't university thank you. so i had three of those 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 is socialist president francois hollande has been boosted after a left wing party secured a major a 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 rich. plans are cilia 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 certain definitely there's no time for complacency they can't 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 speaking about quite a lot during his campaign which is more growth for friends for stereo 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 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 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 pact that the rest of europe is taking so france will be taking a very different approach as to the approach if you will also of course we want 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 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 what 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 it 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 of what spain ovoid committing to additional costs imposed from the outside has happened in the case of greece argument and portugal are just spoke to the man who is often described as the heroes founding father in an interview you can see in just over an hour former european commission president romano prodi says the use troubles began with back of control. when the euro was gore was clear. that we needed political links. fiscal policy by you guys in the program. and now with tory teeth to comb through the behavior of a member state. in two thousand and three i rise in the program again. france. germany and italy they told that this was a game they support

a need. but we have heard from the get go the eat dinner see the caveat that was pushing us to go blues on the here were the topics. i wanted to forget the cold joint on the big east used to so much kind of leadership can't always notion he's a loss of the story yet but we do save our brothers want to survive the only if we lose it. he wants the full interview with the former european commission president and ex prime minister of italy romano prodi in just over an hour. another news. 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

a case over clashes at mt government rally last month when both protesters and riot police were in sirte 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 moscow those of opposition leaders including the blogger alexei in the valley surrogate soft on the t.v. presenter because then you're subject they've seized computer disks and clothing amongst other things and say that in the flash 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's 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 power to determine what people remember be able

to access or not and whether it's government censorship or also private on censorship there are tuning the architecture of the internet from one universal network to a broken ization of small seven that works 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 but the sharing of knowledge better participation in in political and democratic process what i feel what i suspect is that a global universal internet is the only tool we still have between our hands to sort of wrestle them 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 up doing a larger show airs cure's day eleven thirty g.m.t. and remember you can catch up on all previous programs anytime you bike at r.t. dot com also on line for you harry fellatio new york police department fires a jewish officer who refused to treat his beer parking lot on food that is discrimination. and saudi arabia has got talent but not a musical one a town in the gulf kingdom is launching its own entertainment show but no thinking or dancing allowed and women are banned from taking part find out more and are tuning in. just bored. 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 polish police in poland have arrested

fourteen people involved in a brawl between polish and croatian supporters just before sunday's match between croatia and i went 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 mourned over their fans behavior but the problem surrounding euro twenty twelve 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 team for the next three years and he was in the capital kiev alexei tell us how much just struction has been caused by these flight delays i imagine lots of people trying to get to ukraine and to ukraine at this time. well unlike poland so far has been pretty much perfect the organizational point of view would have been no flights only minor bar brawls have been reported but there was a serious complication as well as far as i understand with the ukrainian biggest airline is delaying about thirty flights at the moment we understand that three

thousand people did not reach their destinations in particular the host city of that yes where england will play france in about several and 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 could not reach the city of donetsk is the english ambassadors the british ambassador to ukraine was also staying at the airport and they will to fly 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 this situation to be resolved but this has been a general problem so far in ukraine. and with. era almost every flight from europe being delayed for at least four or five hours in a boss 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 you leaders saying there will boycott the choice of the championship because of the situation with a great film a prime minister yulia timoshenko who is serving seventy hasn't risen for the use of power certainly we are feeling something of this as 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 pull the euro two thousand and twelve period moreover they put on banners in english explaining the situation with units of essential calling her a political prisoner and demanding her to be released immediately certainly all the fans all the to risk well coming here can see that and have their own impression of that we also understand that angela merkel the german chancellor was always been attending the german national national team's games when they were played at the euros or world cups decided to gainst coming to ukraine in reaction to the unix machine co-presenting 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 city of logic of they marched the streets of the city wearing t. shirts saying free you. yes so definitely some political overtones are present here we'll still have to wait and see in the next three weeks or so until the tournament

is happening here in ukraine a bold whether this will escalate somehow but for now the situation as it is we are following all the developments in ukraine the poll that will be bringing all the developments to you. we are indeed alexei years says he live from here thanks for that. georges opposition leader has been fined almost eighty thousand dollars for giving out t.v. antennas to voters who didn't even history may believe 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 and political parties here on the street is georgian dream group is expected to provide the main challenge to the ruling our party of. the tens of thousands of people have been gathering in georgians major cities 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 later to restart it with 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 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 groups who had claimed responsibility in a region blinded by sectarian violence. clashes erupted in chile's 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 brake. the angry crowd in santiago and as to made it three thousand people were killed during pinochet's hardline floor 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 well the fact is 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 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 to them world. well for now let's take a look at what's going on the european markets are all looking positive with the footsie adding harbison around two percent u.s. futures are also pointing to a positive start of the day although we have to. initially has gone away the ibex was up five percent the spanish indexes 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 nikkei and the banks saying adding 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 and 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 well it's a bit over we had system here in moscow the r.t.s. games around one percent my six a bit less than that on a stronger ruble secular to what was going on in currencies the russian ruble on 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 a notion to benefit a 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 i wonder what they're talking about to let me use this opportunity and say i charge three times less and then warren buffett have come to your investment buy stuff 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.

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him in. the end. if. it's five thirty pm in moscow because of the top stories from archie syrian rebels call for foreign intervention and more weapons and violence reportedly brazing outside the capital at this un observers struggle to make a difference in the conflict one country. president obama's socialist and their allies secure a majority in the first round of the french parliamentary vote forty six percent win could see along secure the lower house and receive a powerful mandate for his reform plan. and police searched the homes of several russian opposition leaders and called them in for questioning the search was ordered by a court in connection with clashes at anti-government rally last month when both

protesters and riot police were injured. up next the far reaching ramifications of america's capital punishment which spreads beyond death row. and you guys find your way there i know people all there get in there to you but you. don't much to ask. anybody you want to. let me. go it's not. going to go towards. the executioner.