from helicopter we also hear that they've been a large number of civilians trapped inside the fighting and also the u.n. mission spokesperson has told us that the have the information about the number of syrian army officers being captured the also expressed concern about this is collation about this file and since the country here is a growing peace plan peaceful solution for the 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. violate an international law this is something russia opposing the now committed to. peace

plan saying there is no other alternative and they also been calling for an international contact group to mediate the syrian crisis. and you syrian opposition leaders also urge mass defections from the regime and promised support for the rebels this is u.s. senator john mccain said the fighters are directly supplied with weapons from arab gulf states and want washington to follow that lead international relations professor as the u.s. will remain true to its idea of regime change. the united states and britain and 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 lunch. supplies weapons all over that ultimately i think they will not wish to accept a defeat in 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 be written in kosovo in one thousand nine against serbia is a big risk for them know there 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 they saw what have rock still a very one sided international call. 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 a this an r.t. is there a way to secure your online privacy given the sun squids is members of a cyber movement who debate whether there is such a thing as private data. that's still to come but first francis socialist president for scotland has been boosted after a left wing party secured

a majority in the first round of the parliamentary election the forty six percent when could see one and secure the lower house and receive a powerful mandate for his reform plans parties to sicilia is in paris. the results of the first round certainly is a very good moral boost for the socialist party in trying to get a majority of the lower house of parliament however nothing is certain definitely there's no time for complacency they can't just sit around and expect the same results in the second round there are still the un people already the conservatives still trying to rally whatever support they can get most of dissipated a policy that is the one that he speaking about quite a lot during his campaign which is more growth for friends for a stereo that's on the one hand and how this translates for the french people is that more jobs and taxing the rich it's this tax and spend policy that he wants to implement in france as much as seventy five percent tax for the rich certainly not something that conservatives wanted so if you want to get this

a policy like that through he will need the support of the lower house of us remember the socialists already have the support of the senate so it will be much easier to get things through you also promise about sixty thousand teaching jobs in the next five years as well as retirement age bringing it down to sixty and this is certainly against from sixty two this is against the. driven path that the rest of europe is taking so france will be taking a very different approach to the approach if you will also of course he wanted 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. 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 a case over clashes in anti-government rally last month when both protesters and riot police were injured ortiz told one. police have been searching a number of properties those of opposition leaders including the blogger alexei novell me. and the t.v. presenter are sending a sob 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 mavis six that protest was unlike those many before it and that it got violent 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 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 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. they're 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 police in poland of arrested fourteen people. involved in a brew between polish and croatian 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 want over their fans behavior but the problem surrounding twenty twelve doesn't end there. is in ukraine's capital here. 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 grace 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 national teams 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 yes 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. you can't do much online all with your phone without someone somewhere knowing what you're up to and there's one group though on your side they're called the cypherpunks movement and they're on june the sunday 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 how iranians and the chinese and north koreans they need anonymity and they need freedom and they need all of 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 but it's a free country. and this edition of julian assange just show airs on tuesday at eleven thirty g.m.t. and remember you can watch all the previous programs any time on our website at r.t. dot com also online there for the moment if you log on to find out about a harry situation new york's police department far's a jewish officer he refused to trim his bid sparking a lawsuit for religious discrimination. and saudi arabia's got talent but not a musical one the town there is launching its own entertainment show but no singing or dancing is allowed and women a band from taking part in the full story on that for you at r.t. dot com. the u.s. has withdrawn its negotiators from pakistan after talks failed on a deal to reopen key nato transit routes is a number that imposed a 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 well let's discuss this now with case and it is an editor at antiwar dot com he's in michigan in the u.s. just how much of a blow is it for the u.s. that they failed to reach an agreement with pakistan. perhaps not as big a blow as it would have been a couple of years ago before they'd secured the alternative routes through central asia to russia but i think it still is a significant one because of course the pakistani routes give them access to the sea and they're much more cost effective an end to the u.s. drone campaign was a key demand of pakistan in exchange for reopening those supply routes why is the u.s. so adamant that it won't stop these drone attacks short if they want pakistan's assistance then that's the least they could do. well it certainly is the least they could do but i think right now the the administration is determined to part train itself as

being tough on pakistan and a hawkish hawkish on pakistan heading into the november elections and they don't want to show any signs of weakness we go even further and say the other key pakistani demand is an apology for the november attacks on pakistani military bases which no one seems to think were intentional attacks in the first place but which the u.s. is adamant about not wanting to apologize for what i need being tough on pakistan but of course al qaeda a recent drone attack reportedly killed the leader of al qaida shorter than that does actually to some degree vindicate them and prove that these drone attacks all necessary in the so-called fight against terror well there are a couple of problems with that for one this this isn't the first time the abu yeah yeah libya has been killed in one of these drone attacks and of course al qaeda is already. floating some rumors that he may in fact not have been killed yet again

and might still be alive but the other problem is and in the time since president obama took office he's killed well over two thousand people and. less than fifty of them have ever actually been named as. terrorist leaders or what have you so that one in forty ratio is certainly not a good one and it seems like that's down to create a lot more problems than it solved and that is exactly what human rights groups are concerned about they repeatedly demanded more information on these drone strikes looking at the statistics the amount of civilians killed in these attacks and then looking into investigations and see if the able to build a better picture about them could that actually be a solution and would the u.s. actually cooperate with this. i don't think that it's likely that the u.s. will cooperate because i don't think the u.s. can cooperate here in practice i don't think they know any better than then the media knows who the use thirty nine out of forty unnamed people are there assuming

that well if they were close to a terrorist or a suspected terrorist safe house which most of the times the safe houses are just random homes in some village that they suspect are. fronts for terrorist activity i think we simply don't know who most of these people are and the u.s. doesn't know either so there's not much cooperation that they can do but the thing is having pakistan's support remains really vital doesn't it to the u.s. strategy and the nato strategy in afghanistan so when next now for this increasingly fractious relationship between washington and islamabad it is hugely important it's inconceivable that the u.s. can keep up this occupation of afghanistan in the long run without. at least nominal support from the pakistani government simply too it expensive to use the central asian supply routes but it doesn't seem to be any simple solution right now beyond the u.s. finally coming to its senses and apologizing for the november attacks stopping the

drone strikes and i don't think that the administration is prepared to to make any concessions at all so i think this tense relationship is just going to keep getting more tense all the time and just briefly that lack of apology why isn't there a formal apology from the u.s. this incident that many of this well it's a very political issue here there's a. of course with the presidential election coming up president obama doesn't want to be seen meeting to being wrong about anything and even though this was clearly just a disaster they accidentally attacked what should have been well documented pakistani military bases kill twenty four soldiers they don't want to admit to that because it looks bad and because some of the opposition candidates in the republican primary as soon as it happened were up in arms about the idea of an

apology saying mitt pakistan doesn't deserve an apology even if this was a u.s. mistake so he's sort of trying to have his cake and eat it too here by calling it. an expression of regret without an actual apology for what was done here jason dates from antiwar dot com thanks very much indeed for your perspective thanks for joining us live there much can thank you for having me. two people are missing in another two injured when a military munitions warehouse school farm russia something or a big reason a continual series of explosions have been heard coming from the base authorities fear the phone could spread to several nearby villages and forests they have already ordered the evacuation of seven settlements close to the death. georgia's opposition leader has been fined almost one hundred million dollars in two separate lawsuits billionaire tycoon bits and ivanishvili is in hot water off to giving out t.v.

antennas to voters and subsidizing party members with cheap authorities say it's a violation of the country's normal political parties and the way they're funded but if anybody believes it's in a ten by the authorities to damage the opposition ahead 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 gathering in georgia's main cities the peaceful rallies in support of the opposition. some brief some world news i should say in brief now for you in our world update to nineteen and a half minutes past the hour in the russian capital 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 collapse reports say the tremors from the quakes could be felt in the capital kabul. egypt's interior ministry has backed backtracked on its previous statement the former leader hosni mubarak was in

a coma despite this his condition is deteriorated and eighty four year old's heart stopped twice and doctors had to revive him and americans are now in a car oh prison hospital serving a life term for his role in the killing of some eight hundred fifty protesters during last year's uprising and that's where look for the moment here on r.t. i'll be back with the some of our main news stories for you in about ten minutes from now in the meantime we talk to the man at the helm of the euro project when it launched our special interview with is coming up next here on r.t. .

i'm on a pro 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 core of matters no but i think the merit for the euro look when the euro was born it was clear. that we needed political links common fiscal policy i advised the program of and now dorothy to call troll the behavior of a member state. in two thousand and three i rise in the program again and france germany and italy they thought that this was a game they surveyed in need and then i asked a two state highly critical control by the euro and they said no and so the greek

could cheat everything when a rise of the program no i remember that helmut kohl and say look we did the big africa now. called plate eight in the next three years but then europe changes what will greece leaving the euro do to your country italy not to buy counter-rally but to all the country the banking system. very big disarray and then in that case korea you know the domino effect if you keep getting worse and you gain a lot of money. pixelation then you're stuck with portugal ireland spain italy france and the then general germany and greece of all sleep different can they really share a single government and economy with very different mood yes. kelly for their bad california budget is much more than good but nobody attacks california because of the greek government cheated there is clearly no doubt they have completely cheated

and the devil was six seven current high level was declaring it so the data so is not is not that mistake it is a by doing. so you have to admit no targeting to push for that. how do you stop financial markets the credit rating agencies moody's fitch standard imposed having missed chokehold on europe call the resulting war a way out they don't attack the united states or china because they are too big dogs and the only remedy is to become a big dog or two weak to stick together if you're a boss together we such a big antiquing that nobody will attack us nobody you say states should give up more of their national powers how much more should they lose in europe we have to go in there and you do at the local level anything that you can do a little bit of the cypriot support europe is not united states we have not to send

it back we have some general but safe behavior that must be shared it is clear for example you can take pretty sure company taxation because. otherwise it is in history to move copy from one country to another he's also so when he came here he's an officer second you have to have a couple rules on the. here we're probably today and then you must have a couple rules on monetary policy these are also some of the yes but three through safe want to survive the only if you lose it the reason you i don't say i'll be honest but links from france italy spain and other countries for. more modest apologies and i don't see that they would be

a gauge generally because this would be stupid you know germany must be the leader of the in terms of the economy and we need to hold them to it as tell me so. that they preserve a germany to generate a credible platform with the necessity constraints and limits that could be acceptable for example with a colleague of mine we proposed to. accompany the euro bonds with a guarantee of the gold or wanted by the central banks isn't the problem the people don't want to be controlled from brussels because it's fundamentally undemocratic with an elected leader is the crow that they didn't want to have and that was tolerated looking into the nature of states it's completely different from them. because east korea look now at the screen that all the

governments. rules in and they. are losing. that basic. power as a democratic role. and so. be quiet because they have to take this issue in one direction not that not that they cannot touch. tax capital because it's low ceiling and so they. oh the utopian state united can go mean cool but that's so not for the rules if somebody. hands the bases at the idea that we can preserve the the be. protected instead of the war by the united states and the financial markets of two strong and so i've got to we put our so very few together only knows what it's about. the former president of

the european commission and prime minister of it's and thank you for speaking with ought to thank you. wealthy british style. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds of reports . and i'm sure all of our got a story or out about that crazy lady with

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a free media. in the city of homs with flames and black smoke rising from the ruined buildings. please the president socialists secured a majority in the first round of the french parliamentary vote. and police searched the homes of prominent opposition figures in connection with clashes at a major rowdy last month which protesters injured. so it is for the moment. when the news team with thirty minutes from now in the meantime we take an in-depth look at the death penalty in the us through the lives of those close to prison is facing the maximum sentence

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