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 be captured the also expressed their concern about this is collation about this violence in the country here's 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 are headed by you as have also been calling for military intervention even violate an international law this is something russia opposing the moscow is now committed into backed peace plan saying there is no other alternative and they also 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 fighters are directly supplied with weapons from our 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 in the high states and britain france have made the team to position the long haul as a way of putting pressure on iran change in. the middle east or if they can achieve through their interest to deny a. special. surprise weapons or who the. true except to defeat assad's regime survive. forward. 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 i could be in kosovo in one hundred nine against serbia is a big risk for them leaving over 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 in this region. was to have you this is the way to secure your online privacy in the sun which is members of a cyber movement to debate whether there is such a thing as private data. for the same job but different explore the ongoing gulf and sundry in the us depending on whether you are a man or a woman. the stories to come first for socialist president francois hollande has

been boosted after 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 received a powerful mandate for his reform plans. is in paris the results of the first round sort of these 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 been a speaking about quite a lot during his campaign which is one of 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. as much as seventy five percent tax for the rich certainly not something that conservatives wanted so

if he wants to get this a policy like that through he will need the support of the lower house let's remember the socialists already have the support of the senate so it will be much easier to get things through you also promise about sixty thousand 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 taking so france will be taking a very different approach to. the approach if you will also of course we wanted to . we draw french troops a year earlier than planned from afghanistan and he needs support in both houses to get this through so france or large 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 fulfilling any of those promises it's what got him out of the any safe we if we

remember to live 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 a spanish journalist writer may 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 sort front for that agenda to be implemented because they know it's being implemented but now it becomes compulsory not fall into early so that's the difference and reason why people are angry is that of course they see this as bailing out that. yes certainly the banks

have to be bailed out we need our banking system intact of course but people because the banks are actually the root cause of peace crisis the 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 is science and why they're angry. audience 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. one day your award for it was clear. that we needed politically. fiscal policy i advised the programme of and now with tory to call troll the behavior of besting. in two thousand and three i rise with the programme again. france.

germany and italy they thought that this was again they severely need but we have. to go do it again or it's a p.k. deal that. you have to hope cobble rules on that here worthwhile but probably. more likely to caucus because troy on the plate is just too much of a leadership canada is going to be the last of the serenity yet but we do save our brothers our so but 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 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 alexina valmy. and the t.v. presenter you send yourself check they took away items such as cutest 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. who are 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. just four days into the euro two thousand and twelve football championship and things are beginning to hold up in poland and ukraine and it's not just on the pitch police in poland arrested fourteen people involved in a brawl between polish and croatian supporters just before sunday's game between croatia 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 or his election is in ukraine's capital kiev. this is a 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 euro two thousand and twelve period moreover they put on banners in english

explaining the situation with units of a 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 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 kharkiv they marched the streets of the city wearing t. shirts saying free yulia 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. when you can't do much online all 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 their own in the sunday show here in r.t. to talk about their plans to keep private data private. when we talk about internet censorship it is about centralizing 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 small seven 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 see and what i suspect is that global universal internet is the only tool we still have between our hands to sort of read 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 his program airs on tuesday and that and thirty g.m.t. and remember you can watch all the previous programs any time at r.t. dot com by the way also on life in a moment or every situation new york police department follows 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 to his own entertainment show but no singing or dancing as a mile and women are banned from taking part in the full story for you dodgy dot com .

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it to seventeen minutes past the hour military warehouses that store old explosives of caught fire in russia's southern orenburg region but also have been heard there prompting concern that fog could spread to nearby forests the depo is 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. not 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 impose 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 energy american protests the incident including a rally sunday. two earthquakes have shaken northern afghanistan triggering landslides in the mountainous region three people have been killed and many others

were injured it's fear of 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 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 how 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. also 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 pushchairs 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 bits in it vanish really 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 political party. in 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 he 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 spheres there's a sting in the tail though their salary still lags far behind their male colleagues report her explores why the pay gap still exists and why recent political moves to change that and failed. these medical and scape 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 master's 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's so sexism i feel like there's like 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 likely. wage jobs and is in part because it's hard to access that few others like the old boys. where 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 there is a good serious one 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 is a company's success as it is really due to the participation of women on its platform when sixty percent of the people who participate in facebook are very many and maybe even more importantly than that and seventy percent of the actual sharing 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 a business news and the u.s. markets will be closing soon dimitry will also looking in the final. was looking for a bad actually to be honest it was an additional rally in the first hours of trade basically on the back of the news coming from spain there's actually a lack of news today to react to so basically investors were mulling through spain's bailout plan now it's just a reminder to our viewers 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 blue. loan will cover estimated

capital requirements with an additional safety margin 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 bag's up five percent at the close of minus three percent so there's basically an assessment of how feelings were changing towards the bailout plan and the issue here is that investors now realize that this is not a cure for rather short term pain killer because it will also damage the value basically of spanish state bonds and we did see yields on those grow 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 with the losses over the commodities markets these worries about the state of debt in the especially borrowing costs going up is creating more with worries about the state of global demand and now light sweet is doubt almost two dollars a spread 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 in reacting to all the news coming in but that was trading on saturday it's a bit complicated with all those holidays working days here in russia the r.t.s. game in 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 was. they looked and lost

a lot of value versus the euro but it's again just the knowledge vs the dollars that europe continues to slide 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 two out of favor stocks only 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 and now it's way is the era of the greenback coming to an end here small money matters for you that issue is up for debate in cross talk of the headlines.

there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. before the source material is what helps keep journalism honest we. we want to present. something real.

culture is that so much of me is going to make a lot of people here are you going to look at is the era of the greenback finally coming to an end with china and japan now treating with each other in their own currencies is the international monetary. i'm sure all of our got a story or out about this crazy lady with a convertible that honk for the bridge that every time she batch of it i was on death row for nineteen years right there is one morning that a lot of these say they don't know why i missed it because we might be able to stay a little over a society has condemned these people as less than human it is necessary to punish crime everything we do to punish crime is unpleasant. but it needs to be done nobody wants to be linked to the nazis but the historical antecedents of the american death penalty today.

i won't be there i will not witness for killing my wealthy british style son it's time. for the. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy cause a report. live

from moscow this is where the twenty four hours a day top stories now help in the russian capital fresh violence flares up in syria but also in the city of homes of flames and black smoke rising from ruin buildings . present on land socialists and their allies secure a majority in the first round of the french parliamentary vote. and police said some homes a prominent russian opposition figures in connection with clashes at a major rally last month which met both protest as an office is injured. but so where is that moment here and with the news team with more for you in hall for now from now in the meantime with the dollar and the euro's future looking round the bleak on the world markets peter lavelle and his guests speculate about the

alternatives crosstalk is next on our. still. blowing welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle deep taking the dollar is the era of the greenback finally coming to an end with china and japan now trading with each other in their own currencies is the international monetary in financial order fundamentally.