fresh violence flares up in syria blasts in the city of homs with flames and black smoke rising from ruin the buildings. a lift for the french left president socialists and the 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. 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 clouds of smoke seen rising above the city's skyline this is u.n. observer struggle to make a difference in the conflict torn country while international calls for military action are growing louder what is verification has the latest from syria. the opposition activists have been accusing the syrian army of shelling the residential areas in the tunnel 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 use 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 concern about this is collation about this file and the country is a growing 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 even violate an international law this is something opposing the most committed. and backed

peace plan saying there is no turn the tape 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 is said that sound 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 the united states and britain france have made strategic decision by a 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 support for other arab special courses and. supplies weapons all over 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 the whole of 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 in kosovo in one hundred nine against serbia is a big risk for them to know that the could be casualties on our side it's not clear western public opinion is also 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 calls. but of course would want to become a multi sided conflict that were extremely dangerous and lower the risk of course of an explosion. well still ahead here the sand is the way to secure your online privacy in the sun as she put it as members of a cyber movement to debate whether there is such a thing as private data. was the same job but different pay we explore the ongoing gulf and salary in the u.s.

depending on whether you're a man or a woman. a story still to come but first france's socialist president francois hollande has been boosted after a left wing party secured a majority in the first round of the parliamentary election the forty six percent women could see on and secure the lower house and receive a powerful mandate for his reform plans but he 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'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 we had 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 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. from sixty two this is against the. driven pattern of the rest of europe is to france will be taking a very different approach 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 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. to sicily there in paris well from france to spain now in court employees in the dritte have protested against the one hundred billion euro bailout for spanish banks it comes amid cuts to wages and benefits for public sector workers eurozone is shoring up spain's banking sector which was left with billions of euros of bad loans after the property bubble that burst spanish journalists right we get i'm sure but i don't respect him a little earlier here in r.t. he says that people are angry because banks which have caused the crisis are 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 for that agenda to be implemented because they know it's being 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. so yes certainly the banks have to bailout we need our banking system intact of course but people who stand it because the banks are actually at the root cause of this crisis the case of a 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. spoken to the man who is often described as the euro's founding father later former european commission president romano prodi says the troubles began with a lack of control. when the euro was bore it was clear. that we needed political links on fiscal policy i advised that the problem of and now the tories to call. the behavior of best thing.

in two thousand and three i rise with the program again. france. germany and italy they thought that this was a game they severely need. but we have. to go do it again or it's a behavior of the partnership you have to hope cobble rules on that here but probably. more like according to the call drawn on the back he's used to. kind of leadership can always minister is a lot of story yet but we do so others. can 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 just over an hour from now here in r.t.

. 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 of the clashes at an anti-government rally last month when both protesters and riot police were injured parties talk about. police have been searching a number of properties those of opposition leaders including the blogger alexei in a valley. and the t.v. presenter you send yourself check they took away items such as you to just hand 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 the valley and 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 the 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 and 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 your sub chack 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 these searches the latest development in the long saga of this

protest movement many people will be watching to see exactly what does happen tomorrow. just four days into the euro two thousand and twelve championship and things are beginning to hold off in poland and ukraine and it's not just on the pitch police in poland of arrested fourteen people involved in a brawl between polish and croatian supporters just before sunday's game between croatia and on and it's the latest incident in a string of clashes the already seen a number of teams warned over their fans behavior but the problems surrounding hero twenty twelve don't end there all his life he 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 storm a 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 euro

two thousand and 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 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 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 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 seeing every night from both poland and ukraine.

well 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 during the sounds of show here in r.t. to talk about their plans to keep your private data private. when we talk about internet censorship it is about centralizing the power to do it online what people are maybe 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 bulk and 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 what i suspect is that global universal internet is the only tool we still have between or hands to sort of 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. and this edition of genius and his program airs on tuesday and i'm thirty g.m.t. and remember you can watch all the previous programs any time at r.t. dot com part of a also on live in a moment to carry situation new york police department far as a jewish officer refused to trim his beard sparking a lawsuit for religious discrimination. and saudi arabia's got talent but not a musical one there is no gene its own entertainment show but no singing or dancing

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dot com. the news continues now here and it to seventeen minutes past the hour military warehouses that store old exposes of coal fire in russia's southern orenburg region but also have been heard there prompting concern that fog could spread to nearby forests the deposed are 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 under way. time now to update you on some other world news in brief this hour in our world update the u.s. has withdrawn its negotiate pakistan after talks failed on a deal to reopen key nato transit routes islam about imposed the blockade on nato convoys in november last year after an airstrike by the military alliance killed twenty four pakistani soldiers the pentagon's team has been in pakistan for about six weeks but no progress has been made the country seen a huge anti american protests after the incident including a rally on sunday. two 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 as up to one hundred villagers 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 the former leader hosni mubarak was in a coma despite this his condition is said to have deteriorated as the eighty four year old's heart stopped twice and doctors had to revive him 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. in our world update the 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 cannon to break up the angry crowds in santiago an estimated three thousand people were killed during his hardline rule which while thousands more

were arrested or forced into. georgia's opposition leader has been fired almost one hundred million dollars in two separate lawsuits a billionaire tycoon bids in ivanishvili is in hot water after giving up t.v. antennas to voters subsiding subsidizing party members with cheap because authorities say it's a violation of the country's law political parties and the way they're funded but ivanishvili believes it's an attempt by the authorities to damage the opposition of parliamentary elections later this year is georgian dream group is expected to provide the main challenge to the ruling party of president saakashvili tens of thousands have been gathering in georgia's main cities for peaceful rallies in support of the opposition. america's women often are before men in many. in the tale though their salary still lags far behind their male colleagues

explores why the pay gap still exists and why recent political moves to change that . these medical landscape of america's professional force has undergone major reconstruction over the decades women now make up fifty percent of the nation's labor force sixty percent of the voting population and they've surpassed men in earning advanced college degrees but when it comes to salary the land of opportunity remains a land of inequality for women full time working women in the us just 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 definitely has

a lot of cases where women are bluntly discriminated and where they are just discriminated based based on sex the u.s. government says that the current earnings gap will cost the average full time working woman at least four hundred thousand dollars by the time she's sixty five years old we keep going for higher and higher degrees you know almost done with the double masters and i'm going to go for my ph d. man doesn't have to do that for this move if you feel that you know you need to be paid more do you need to like put it with don and say that i need to be paid more this sort of raises and that's not sexism i feel like there's look like men feel they have a higher power for women just in any sort of sense even the workplace socially it just doesn't make sense to me according to the institute for women's policy research females working on wall street or in real estate face the largest earnings gaps making as much as forty percent less than their male counterpart financial occupations in those occupations women likely to be which absent is in part because

it's hard to access that few others like the old boys. 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 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. which is next with business news and the u.s. markets will be closing soon dimitry will also looking in the final. but it's looking pretty bad actually to be honest it was in the visual rally in the first hours of trade basically on the back of the news coming from spain there's actually lack of news today to react to so basically investors were mulling through spade's bailout plan now it's just a reminder it's of you as a spain has agreed to ask for one hundred twenty five billion dollars in bailout

money to rescue its banking sector now in official statement by the spanish economy minister you said blowed. we'll cover estimated capital requirements with an additional safety margin and with that in mind the move means spain now has a fire wall should the greek election on sunday unleash a fresh round of market turmoil. now if you just take a look at the final figures in europe it was rallying in the first hours of trade indeed we did see the spanish index the bags up five percent at the close of minus three percent so there's basically an assessment of how the feelings were changing towards this bailout plan and the issue here is that this is now realize that this is not a cure for rather short term pain killer because it will also damage the value basically of spanish they bonds and we did see yields on those growth today over in the united states indeed half an hour left for trading dow jones is down point six

percent nasdaq even more so more than one percent and an exception on the nasdaq is facebook it's up one point seven five percent and that's very good for the company which has seen three straight weeks of losses weekly losses over the commodities markets these worries about the state of debt here in the spade especially borrowing costs going up is of course creating more with worries about the state of global demand and now light sweet is doubt almost two dollars a brant on the russian market so we're seeing a public holidays no trading for monday and tuesday traders will be back on wednesday to catch up on reacting to all the news coming in but there was trading on saturday it's a bit complicated with all those holiday working days here in russia the r.t.s. gaining one percent to lead to the russian markets one of the biggest weekly gains this year since february. and also on the currencies markets the russian ruble will

also start trading on wednesday this is how sassy. they looked and lost a lot of value versus the euro but it's again just the knowledge versus the dollars the european team is slight against agree. finally 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 earned his fortune by cashing in the out of favor stocks and he holds such an option to benefit homeless charity now the want to invite up to seven of his friends to share a view and have a chat with the legendary investor interesting leave office as most of the questions he gets set such lunches are not about investing we had thing to do if you ask me isn't it three and a half million dollars i bet they have to pay extra for the bread rolls no thanks very much to me. now it's way is the era of the greenback coming to an end he has more money that is used up debating cross-talk of the headlines.

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in large part from the nazis and the sad part is texas gets their way and they execute him and i won't be allowed to touch him until after he's dead he's my only time i leave the house. and he keeps telling me they can't hear me and they are. blocked. but. i won't be there i will not witnessed the killing my. british style. happening to the global economy.