startup t.v. dot com. fresh violence flares up in syria blasts in the city of homs with flames and black smoke rising from ruin buildings. a lift for the french left president socialists and allies secure a majority in the first round of the parliamentary vote paving a part for reform. and police searched the homes of prominent russian opposition figures in connection with clashes at a major rally last month which left both protesters and officers injured our top stories.

around the world around the clock international news and comment live from r.t. a series of explosions have rocked the central syrian city of homs with clowns of smoke seen rising above the city's skyline this is un observers struggle to make a difference in the conflict torn country while international calls for military action growing louder. has the latest from syria. the opposition activists have been accusing the syrian army of shell in the residential areas in the town and something the government denies since the beginning of the uprising here in syria last march they've been insisting on shelling on targeting only the places where terrorists and militant groups are based and we've also been receiving video from homestead shows explosions and shelling so you can see and hear them but again it's very hard to very far targeting who we have been able to speak to the spokes person of the u.n. supervision mission here in damascus they've confirmed to have the fighting in homes they confirm the use of heavy artillery machine guns and they've also been

reporting about shellings from helicopter we're also hearing that they've been a large number of civilians trapped inside the fighting and also the u.n. mission spokes person has told us that they have the information about a number of syrian army offices being captured they also expressed their concern about this is collation about this file and said the country fears are growing that peace plan peaceful solution for the syrian crisis is now seriously threatened we've just been hearing from newly elected president of the syrian national council of the opposition group. calling for military intervention and they are not alone in that we know that many nations headed by you as have also been calling for military intervention. violate an international law this is something opposing the

most committed. and backed peace plan saying there is no alternative and they also have been calling for an international contact group to mediate the syrian crisis. the new syrian opposition leader has also urged mass defections from the regime and promised support for the rebels this is u.s. senator john mccain has said that and sad fighters are directly supplied with weapons from arab gulf states and wants washington to follow that lead international relations professor mark almond says the u.s. will remain true to its idea of regime change blue high states and britain and france have made for t.v. station by long haul are there as a way of putting pressure on iran changing the whole. order of the middle east and therefore if they can achieve that through syrian domestic horses deniable or for other arab special courses and. supplies weapons on order that ultimately i think

they will not wish to accept a defeat in assad's regime survived it would be a huge geopolitical setback for our relations between our 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 they rolled in kosovo in one hundred nine against serbia is a big risk for them you know the could be casualties on our side it's not clear that western public opinions are so committed to regime change other crisis of their own soldiers and so what have you know now iraq is still a very one sided international call in this case but of course would want to become a multi sided conflict that were extremely dangerous and lower the risk of course of an explosion in this region. r t live here in moscow still ahead this hour is there a way to secure your online privacy journal science quizzes members of a cyber movement to debate whether there's such a thing as private data. still to come also the same job but different pain we

explore the ongoing gulf in salary in the u.s. depending on whether you're a man or a woman. frances socialist president has been boosted after left wing parties secured a major majority in the first round of the parliamentary election forty six percent women could see one and secure the lower house and receive a powerful mandate for his reform plans to cecilia 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 speaking about quite a lot during his campaign which is more growth for france for the spirity 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 as much as seventy five percent tax for the rich certainly not something that conservatives wanted so if he wants to get this policy like that through he will need the support of the lower house just 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. again from sixty two this is against the . driven past that the rest of europe france will be taking a very different approach as 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 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. in paris now to spain where court employees in madrid have protested against the one hundred billion euro bailout for spanish banks it comes amid cuts to wages and benefits for public sector workers the eurozone assuring up spain's banking sector which was left with billions of euros of loans after the property bubble there burst spanish journalist writer miguel and sure but i don't suspect i'm a little early here in r.t. he says people are angry because banks which of course the crisis we're getting help the spanish government has been pushing a very very strict agenda of austerity cuts for months already and that is the recent why. the i.m.f.

and the euro i'm not asking for of those sort front for that agenda to be implemented because they know it's been implemented but now it becomes compulsory not fallen terry so that's a different standard and why people are angry is that of course they see this as bailing out that so yes certainly the banks have to be bailed out we need our banking system intact of course but people east anglia because the banks are actually at the root cause of this crisis case of spain because of the property bubble the cheap loans and all that so people would be saying why bailout the banks bailout us we also need it and that it's one thing why they're angry. r.t. is put into the man who is often described as the euro's founding father later the former european commission president ramana prodi says the troubles began with a lack of control. when the euro was a war it was clear. that we needed political legs

come on fiscal policy i have rising the problem of an old tory thirty two called troll behavior the best thing. in two thousand and three i rise with the program again. france. germany and italy they saw that this was again they suffered in need. but we have tried to go do it again or it's a behavior that. you have to hope a couple rules on that you hear worthwhile but probably. more likely to forget the call draw on the big piece you still. have a real issue can't always mention is a lot of story yet but we do so i'll post. only if we lose it.

and you can watch the full interview with the former european commission president and ex prime minister of italy ramana prodi in just about twenty minutes from now. russian investigators have searched the flats of several prominent opposition figures and called them in for questioning the search was ordered by court in connection with the case over clashes at an anti government rally last month when both protesters and riot police were injured parties tom bottom. police have been searching a number of properties those of opposition leaders including the blogger alexina valmy. and the t.v. presenter check they took away items such as computer disks and clothes the searches were ordered by a moscow court as part of a criminal investigation into a protest on may the sixth that protest was unlike those many before it and that it got violent and descended into fighting novell no doubt soft were among hundreds

arrested amid widespread accusations of excessive violence both from protesters and from police a new law massively increases the fines for violations in protests from the old to total of around one hundred twenty euros maximum up to around seven thousand euros it was furiously debated opposition leaders saying that it was simply too much for many protesters to afford president vladimir putin defended the law though saying that it was in line with european standards in france fines can go even higher as high as forty five thousand euros opposition leaders have been asked to come in for questioning tomorrow regarding the searches that is also the planned date of another protest it is thought that some of the leaders in questioning may not be able to attend including czech police also reportedly found one and a half million euros in her apartment which was confiscated but after the passing

of this new law and the search is the latest development in the long saga of this protest movement many people will be watching to see exactly what does happen tomorrow. and there just four days into the euro twenty twelve football championship and things are beginning to hold up in poland and ukraine and it's not just on the pitch but he's in poland arrested fourteen people involved in a brawl between polish information supporters just before sunday's game between croatia and it's the latest incident in a string of clashes that have already seen a number of teams ruined over their fans behavior but the problem surrounding twenty twelve and then. is in ukraine's capital kiev. this tournament has received some political overtones even before it had started with several e.u. leaders saying they will boycott the championship because of the situation with a great former prime minister yulia timoshenko who is serving seven years in prison

for the use of power right next to the fan zone here in central kiev is the tent camp of the opposition which has been here for year they decided not to remove it for the year or twenty twelve period moreover they put on banners in english explaining the situation with you know to my sankoh calling her a political prisoner and demanding her to be released immediately certainly all the fans all the tourists who are coming here can see that and have their own impression of that but we also understand that angela merkel the german chancellor has always been attending the german national the national team's games when they were played at the euros or world cups decided against coming to ukraine in reaction to the units must 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 city of kharkiv they marched the streets of the city wearing t. shirts saying free us so we'll see certainly in the coming weeks how this situation will unfold for now it's been very peaceful here and everyone certainly enjoys the

great game of football which we see every night from both poland and ukraine. before the days of schools in today's games we've the details not he spoke with full he has coming up in our full. round up in around half an hour's time i'll give you the details of the one one draw between england and france in the opening group d. match while co-hosts ukraine hear of their campaign against sweden in around thirty minutes time all that and news from the french open tennis in about half an hour. now 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 june in the sense of show here on r.t. talk about their plans to keep your private data private. and 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 or 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. and this edition of in the sunday show and on choose day in the fifty g.m.t. remember you can watch all the previous programs any time at all to dot com also online for the moment to henry situation new york's police department was a jewish officer who refused to trim it's been sparking a lawsuit for really just discrimination. and saudi arabia has got talent but not

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feeds now with the palm of your. on the dot com. he continues here on r t here in moscow military warehouses that store old explosives of caught fire in russia's southern or unbowed region glass had been heard there prompting concern that fire could spread to nearby forests the devils also situated some fourteen kilometers from a small village one person has been injured in the process of evacuating people from the area is already underway. tom not up to you in some world news in brief for you this hour in our world update a bomb that struck a bus in southwest pakistan killing six people onboard and injuring dozens others exposes were planted on a motorbike and detonated by remote control when the vehicle was passing by no group has yet claimed responsibility in the region blighted by sectarian violence. to earthquakes have shaken northern afghanistan triggering landslides in

a mountainous region three people have been killed and many others were injured it's feared casualties will rise up to one hundred villages have been trapped in rubble after around twenty houses collapsed reports say the tremors from the quakes could be felt in the capital kabul. egypt's interior ministry has backtracked on its previous statement that former leader hosni mubarak was in a coma despite this is condition is said to have deteriorated as the eighty four year old's heart stopped twice and doctors how to revive him at the barrack is now in a current prison hospital serving a life term for his role in the killing of some eight hundred fifty protesters during last year's uprising. clashes erupted in cheers capital as demonstrators protested against the screening of a documentary praising the former dictator augusto pinochet police have 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 rule while thousands more were arrested or forced into exile. georgia's opposition leader has been fined

almost one hundred million dollars in two separate lawsuits billionaire tycoon biggs in ivanishvili is in hot water after giving up t.v. antennas to voters subsidizing party members with cheap cars authorities say it's a violation of the country's law and political parties and the way they're funded by ivanishvili believes its intent by the authorities to damage the opposition head of parliamentary elections later this year his georgian dream group is expected to provide the main challenge to the ruling party a presence i could really tens of thousands have been covering in georgia means it's a peaceful rallies in support of the opposition. america's women often are performed men in many spheres there's a sting in the tail though their salary still lags far behind their male colleagues report her explore why the pay gap still exists and why recent political moves to change that the failed. these medical and state of america's professional force has

undergone major reconstruction over the decades women now make up fifty percent of the nation's labor force sixty percent of the voting population and they've surpassed men in earning advanced college degrees but when it comes to salary the land of opportunity remains a land of inequality for women a full time working women in the u.s. 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's nearly 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 with the double master's 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 so brazen that's so sexism i feel like there's a myth men feel they have a higher power but women just any sort of sense even the workplace socially it just doesn't make sense to me according to the institute for women's policy research females working on wall street or in real estate face the largest earnings gaps making as much as forty percent less than their male counterpart financial occupations in those occupations women like really big wage gap some is in part because it's hard to access that few others like the old boys. you know what i remember we're going 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 to put a man in there is a bit too good 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 very many and maybe even more importantly than that when seventy percent of the actual share of stuff that drives ad revenue and 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. dimitris next dimitri it's all about spain's bailout on the markets today isn't that is true it was the initial rally. at the beginning of the trading session pretty much all across the globe but now with a really strict let me just remind you over the weekend spain has agreed to ask for one hundred twenty five billion dollar bailout for rescuing its banking system which is of course in trouble and that makes of the fourth country to ask for international help now in an official statement by the spanish economy minister the loan will cover. estimates of capital requirements with an additional safety margin

so with that in mind move means spain now has a fire wall should the greek election on sunday and fresh round of market turmoil and that's basically what had investors change their minds after initially buying up a lot of stocks take a look at what's going on at the close in the europe we are seeing folks actually descend into the red while the dax was up a point two percent notably if you just look at the ibex index it was up five percent then a decline around three percent also in the states right now we are seeing a decline of around half a percent both the dow jones and the nasdaq nasdaq even more so this is because basically fear that this bailout package will be producing bonds which will become superior compared to state bonds and therefore we see yields rise in spain also on the nasdaq facebook is up one and a half percent doing much better than the markets that's a recovery after three weeks straight weeks of losses. over the commodities markets worries about global demand have led lights and brands to go down another dollar

per barrel band on the a russian a market there's no trading today no trading tomorrow because of public holidays but there was trading on saturday as complicated as the r.t.s. went up more than one percent to lead the russian market into one of the most successful weeks since of for the russian market and we will see more trade on on wednesday as we will with the russian ruble which declined against the euro and again the north against the dollar the world of europe continues sliding vs but all of these worries that state boards might be hit and boring because they're for greece or 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 who by cashing in two out of favor stocks annually olds such an option 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 interesting lee buffett says most of the questions he gets such lunches are not about investing now i'm pretty sure that warren buffett is a nice chap but waiting three and a half million dollars for just lunch and i thought the whole idea of a business lunch is that it's the cheapest on the many that makes sense as it retreated thanks a lot well on his way how do we save the euro that's a question we're putting to one man behind the project that's an in-depth interview before that a recap of today's top stories. wealthy

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