we're also hearing that they've been a large number of civilians trapped inside the fighting and also the u.n. mission spokesperson has told us that they have the information about a number of syrian army officers being captured the also expressed their concern about this is collation about this violence in the country here is a growing that peace plan peaceful solution for this syrian crisis is now seriously threatened we've just been hearing from the 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 even violate an international law this is something russia opposing that is now committed. backed

peace plan saying there is no other alternative and they also have been calling for an international conflict group to mediate the syrian crisis. the new syrian opposition leaders also urge mass defections from the regime and promise support for the rebels this is u.s. senator john mccain has said that fighters are directly supplied with weapons from arab gulf states and wants washington to follow that lead international relations professor mark ullman says the u.s. will remain true to its idea of regime change. the united states and britain france have made a strategic decision by a long haul off 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 through deniable support for other arab special courses and. supplies weapons or no to that ultimately i think they will not wish to accept a defeat if assad regime survived it would be

a huge geopolitical setback for the whole the power 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 like in. kosovo in one hundred nine against serbia is a big risk for them know there could be casualties on our side it's not clear that western public opinion is also committed to regime change or other crisis of their own soldiers and so what have you know now iraq is still a very one sided international calls. but of course when one wanted to become a multi-sided conflict that were extremely dangerous and that is the risk of course of an explosion in this region. life here in moscow is to have you decide is there a way to secure your mind for the sea journal quizzes members of a cyber movement to debate whether there's such a thing as private data. to come also the same job but different explore the ongoing gulf and summer in the us depending on whether you're a man or

a woman. for this president has been boosted off the 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. 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 and nothing is a 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's speaking about quite a lot during his campaign which is more growth for friends for posterity 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. a seven 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 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 jobs in the next five years as well as retirement age bringing it down to sixty. against from sixty two this is against the. driven part of the rest of europe is to france will be taking a very different approach. if you will also of course you 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 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 what this

point and 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 a we if we remember the cilia there 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 that burst spanish journalist writer miguel i'm sure but i don't speak to him a little earlier here in r.t. he says people are angry because banks which of course the crisis they'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 zone are not asking for those sort front for that agenda to be

implemented because they know it's being implemented but now we becomes compulsory not fallen thirty so that's the difference and recent why people are angry is that of course they see this as bailing out the banks so yes certainly the banks have to be bailed out we need our banking system intact of course but people because the banks are actually at the root cause of this crisis case of especially 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 born it was clear. that we needed political links. fiscal policy i advised the programme of that and now with tory to call troll the behavioral member state.

in two thousand and three i rise with the programme again. france. germany and italy they told that this was again they survived in need. but we have to try to get our little dinner it's a p.k. deal that was pushing us hope a couple rules on that here worthwhile but probably. more likely to progress because short on the big piece you still. kind of really should cancel the essential piece or loss of the story yet but we do save our brothers our somebody and only if we lose it. and you can watch the full interview with the former european commission president and x. 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 a case over clashes at an anti government rally last month when both protest as and riot police were injured parties tom bottom. police have been searching a number of properties those of opposition leaders including the blogger alexei novell me. 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. or 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 euro's 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 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 wound 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 tymoshenko 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 euro twenty twelve period moreover they put on banners in english explaining the situation with you it's my sankoh calling her a political prisoner and demanding her to be released immediately certainly all the fans all the tourists 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 just sided against 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 city of logic of 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 race in schools in today's games we have the details not he spoke with paul 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 are news from the french open tennis in around 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. to talk about their plans to keep your private data private. 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 is 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 don't come also online for the moment to hammer the situation new york's police department was a jewish officer who refused to trim its bid sparking a lawsuit for really just discrimination. and saudi arabia has got talent but not a musical one town of the kingdom is launching its own entertainment show but no singing or dancing is a mile when

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dot com. he continues here on r t here moscow military warehouses that store old exposes of cool foreign russia's southern orangeburg region glass had been heard there prompting concern that fire could spread to nearby forests the devil is also situated some fourteen kilometers from a small village one person's been injured in the process of evacuating people from the area is already under way. time now to update you on some world news in brief for you this hour in our world update a bomb has struck a bus and self west pakistan killing six people on board and injuring dozens others exposed as were planted on a motorbike and detonated by remote control when the vehicle was passing by a group has yet claimed responsibility in the region blighted by sectarian violence . two earthquakes have shaken northern afghanistan triggering landslides in the 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 in the barrack is now in a car a 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 chile's 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 less committed 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 it's an 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 of president saakashvili tens of thousands have been covering georgia's main cities for peaceful rallies in support of the opposition. america's women often though perform in many spheres there's a sting in the tell them their son who still leg fall behind their male colleagues report her explore why the pay gap still exists and what recent political news to change that photo. 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 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 salary says nearly all occupations including nursing teaching and even secretarial work but experts say the pay gap has less to do with all of the patients and much more to do with stereotypes surrounding gender united states that the family has a lot of cases where women are blindly 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 means 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 so sexism i feel like there's look i met 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. wait to have some is impaired because it's hard to access that. there is like that old boys' network 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 to put

a man in their salute to 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 one seventy percent of the actual share 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 lawsuits 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 dimitry it's all about sprains but on the markets today isn't not as true it was the initial rally. at the beginning of the trading session pretty much all across the globe but now with a really strange let me just remind you over the weekend spain has agreed to ask for one hundred twenty five billion. 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 ministry said 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 well the dax was up zero 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 boards and therefore you 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 a barrel and on the a russian

a market there's no trading today no trading tomorrow because of public holidays but there was trading on saturday it was complicated the r.t.s. went up more than one percent to lead the russian market into one of the most successful weeks since february for the russian market and we will see more trade on wednesday as we will with the russian ruble which declined against the euro and against the nauset against the dollar the world of europe continues sliding vs but all of these worries that might be hit boring because therefore increase the space . also an anonymous bidder is playing a record read 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 auction 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 when 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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top stories now. in the city of. black smoke rising from buildings. president. majority in the first round of the french parliamentary vote. of prominent russian opposition figures in connection with clashes at a major rally last month protests and offices in. fifteen minutes from now in the meantime across the european countries you share a currency the debts are piling up and the emergency bailout fund is quickly dwindling the man at the helm of the euro project when it launched what he thinks

is needed to save it. mana per day was a huge leader when eleven states abandon their currency for the euro mr prodi do you take any responsibility for the current mess for the current mess no but i take the merit for the euro look when the euro was a bore it was clear that we needed political links common fiscal policy i had eyes in the program of that and now authorities to call troll the behavior of member states. in two thousand and three high rise in the program again and france germany and italy they thought that this was a game they submit a need and then i ask it.