from hell he called. we also hear 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 the number of syrian army offices being captured the also express think concern about this collation about this file and since the country is a growing peace plan peaceful solution for the syrian crisis is now serious the facts and 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 had it by you as have also been calling for intervention even violate an international law this is something opposing the most committed. un backed peace plan as saying there is no.

and they also have been calling for an international contact group to mediate the syrian crisis syria's new opposition leader also urged mass defections from the regime and promised support for the rebels u.s. senator john mccain says arab gulf states are supplying fighters with weapons and wants to see washington follow suit professor of international relations mark all move things the u.s. will remain true to its idea of regime change. the united states and britain france of made strategic decision by a long haul often as a way of putting pressure on iran changing the. chessboard of the middle east and therefore if they can achieve that through syrian domestic horses deniable support for the arab special courses and. supplies weapons on to that but ultimately i think they will not wish to accept a defeat in assad's regime survived it would be

a huge geopolitical setback for. our relations between our states and its allies in syria and iran are a worm in the ultimately in favor of the western states but of course to go in on the ground i could. also go in one thousand nine hundred some of it is a big risk for the movement could be casualties on our side it's not clear western public opinion is also committed to regime change other chrysler and so that's the source have a rock still a very one sided international called myspace but of course would one want to become a multi-sided conflict that would explain the dangerous and that is the risk of course of an explosion in this region will stay with us here on our t.v. still ahead is there any way to secure your online privacy julian assange quizzers members of a cyber movement who debate whether or not there is such a thing as private data anymore what's. different pace seen job gender inequality sets women in the u.s. against male counterparts. but first the french socialist party and its political

allies have secured forty six percent of the vote in the first round of the parliamentary elections the result arrays of president francois launch as of securing a majority in both houses and in the second aroud set for sunday are reports from paris. the results of the first round certainly is a very good moment 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 friends not for the stereotype 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 implemented

from it's 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 a policy like that through he will need the support of the lower house so that'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 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 that he provides concrete results for the french people the patience is very low but this point and the nicolas sarkozy became deeply unpopular for coming in with promises

and not fulfilling any of those promises it's what got him out of the in the safe we if we remember. cord employees in madrid of protest against one hundred billion euro bailout for spanish banks this cuts to wages and benefits for public sector workers the eurozone is shoring up spain's banking sector which was left with billions of euros of bad loans after the property bubble there burst spanish journalist and a writer may go on show morocco's as people are angry because banks which have caused the crisis are getting help. the spanish government has been pushing a very very strict agenda over study cats for months already and that is the recent why why the the i.m.f. and the euro so i'm not asking for those sort front for that agenda to be implemented because they know it's being implemented but now he becomes compulsory not fund study so that's the difference and recent ally people are angry is that because they see the says they know that the banks so yes certainly the banks have

to be bailed out we need our banking system intact of course but people east anglia because the banks are actually not the root cause of these prices and the case of us face because of the property bubble the cheap loans and all that so people would be saying why bailout the banks bail out us we also need it and that is one thing why they are angry russian police have searched the homes of several prominent opposition figures the raids come as part of an ongoing probe into violence the last month's mass antigovernment marches seven people have already been detained in connection with those clashes organizers have also been some in for questioning prior to another protest rally set for tuesday in central moscow or he's tom barton reports. police have been searching a number of properties those of opposition leaders including the blogger alexei novell me. and the t.v. presenter you send your 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 protest was unlike those many before it and that it got violent descended into fighting. 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 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 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. only four days into the euro two thousand and twelve football championships and things are moving to heat up in poland in ukraine and it's not just on the pitch polish police arrested fourteen people involved in our brawl between polish encourage and support. just before sunday's game between croatia and ireland it's the latest incident in a string of clashes that have already seen a number of teams warned over their fans behavior but the problems surrounding the euro two thousand and twelve don't and there are things like sarah shows he has for

. this tournament has received some political overtones even before it had started with several leaders saying there will boycotts the championship because of the situation with chrysler the prime minister yulia timoshenko who is seventy seven he has a 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 all the euro twenty twelve period moreover they put on banners in english explaining the situation with calling her a political prisoner and demanding her to be released immediately secondly 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 off world cups and had decided to gainst coming to ukraine in reaction to the you know it's my central prison and her treatment in the heart of the prison also i 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 god if they march the streets i'll be 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. well you can't do much online these days or your phone without someone somewhere knowing what you're doing but there's a group on your side there called the cypherpunks movement and they're on julian assange and his show on r t talk about plans to keep your private data private. i just i think that it is important to just to to remember that censorship and surveillance are not issues of other places and you know people in the west love to talk about how it radians 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 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. the latest edition of julius on his show airing tuesday at eleven thirty g.m.t. and why are there are mall so watch all of the previous programs on our web site r t v dot com also online for you right now harry situation in new york city police department firing a jewish officer who refused to turn his beard sparking a lawsuit for religious discrimination by saudi arabia's got talent but not a musical want to tallinn there is launching its own entertainment show but there's no singing or dancing allowed and women are banned from taking part in the full story at r.t.

dot com. two people missing in another two injured after a military munitions warehouse catches fire in russia's southern orenburg region and explosions were heard coming from the base and one person has been reported injured aircraft and military military firefighting equipment were deployed in authorities say the fire is now contained residents of a village near the depot have also been removed to safety. the u.s. has withdrawn its negotiators from pakistan after weeks of talks failed to reopen key nato transit routes islam about imposed a blockade on the alliance convoys in november last year after an airstrike killed twenty four pakistani soldiers as a date jason ditz from antiwar dot com says the u.s. is no longer caring about winning pakistani support. i think right now the the administration is determined to partridge 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 it's inconceivable that the us 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 essential asian supply routes but it doesn't seem to be any simple solution right now beyond the us finally coming to its senses and apologizing for the november attacks and stopping the drone strikes that ended and i don't think the administration's prepared to to make any concessions at all so i think this tense relationship is just going to keep getting more tense. georgia's opposition leader has been fined

almost one hundred million dollars in two separate lawsuits billionaire tycoon beads in even though she really is in hot water after giving out t.v. antennas to voters and subsidizing party members with cheap cars authorities say it's a violation of the country's long political parties and the way they're funded but even if you really thinks it's an attempt by the authorities to damage the opposition ahead of the parliamentary vote later this year his georgian dream group is expected to provide a main challenge for the ruling party of president saakashvili tens of thousands gather in georgia's main cities for peaceful rallies in support of the opposition. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe two earthquakes have shaken northern afghanistan triggering landslides in a mountainous region three reported killed and many others injured it's feared casualty figures may rise or scores of villagers have been trapped inside collapsed houses reports say tremors from the quakes could be it felt as far as the capital kabul. egypt's interior ministry has backtracked on

a previous statement that former president hosni mubarak was in a coma despite this his condition is reported to lead to serious rating as the eighty four year old's heart stopped twice and doctors had to revive him is now in a cairo prison hospital serving a life term for his role in the killing of some eight hundred fifty protesters during last year's uprising. finally news block america's women often outperform men in several spheres but in recent studies show their salaries are still lagging behind their male colleagues merino porton explores why the pay gap still exists and why recent political moves to change that have failed. these steadicam 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 a full time working women in the u.s.

certainly aren't seventy seven cents for every dollar made by a man according to recent statistics men earn higher salaries in nearly all occupations including nursing teaching and even secretarial work but experts say the pay gap has less to do with qualifications and much more to do with stereotypes surrounding gender united states that definitely has a lot of cases where women are bluntly discriminated and where they are just discriminated. 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 like you know you need to be paid more you need to like put it with don and say that i need to be more there's

so brazen that 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 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 have like really big wage jobs and is in part because it's hard to access that few others like the old boys. what i don't 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 who put a man in there a 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 facebook is

a company whose success has is really due to the participation of women on its platform more than sixty percent of the people who participate in facebook are by me and maybe even more importantly than that when seventy percent of the actual sharing the stuff that drives ad revenue and stuff that makes facebook as dynamic a platform as it is is it being done 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 y. been 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 marina r.t.

new york during our party enters the man who oversaw the launch of the euro stay with us. 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 a 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 come on fiscal policy i have eyes in the program. and now the tories keep to call troll the behavioral members take in two thousand and three i rise in the program again and france germany and italy they thought that this was a game they survived in need and then i ask at least a highly critical control by the eurostar and they said no and so they agree could cheat everything when a rise of the program no i remember that helmut kohl say look we did a big effort now. called plate in the next two years but then europe changes what will greece leaving the euro do to your country italy not to my counter only but to all the country the banking system. very big this other way and then in that case

korea you know it being the domino effect if you keep getting. and you gain a lot of money because of speculation then you're stuck with for can i invent a italy france and in the end get germany and greece of falsely different can they really share a single government and economy with very different good yes. california by california budget is much more than good but nobody attacks california because the greek government cheated there is clearly no doubt they have completely cheated and the deficit was six seven current high level was declaring it so the day so is not is not that mistake it is a by the way as you know so you have to admit no toady to push a little how do you stop financial markets the credit rating agencies moody's fitch

standard imposed having with choke hold 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 they only remedy is to become a big dog or tweak stick together if you're a boss together we such a big entity that nobody will attack us nobody can 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 must do at the local level anything that you can do in a local district principal europe is not united states we have not the center of it but we have some general it's a behavior that must be shaped by just. for example you can take pretty sure the company taxation because. otherwise it is a mystery to move companies from one country to another he's also so very good yes

he's an officer second you have. to have a couple rules on the. property today and then you must have a couple rules on monetary policy these are also some of the yes but we do save somebody only if you lose it for the reason you i don't say ali i suppose you are links from france italy spain and the other countries for this more balance of policy in that 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 contents of the economy and we need more than that as ted mimi's. re presenting 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 proposing 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 pro that they didn't want to have and that was. looking into the nature of states it's completely different from them. because it is clear. now if the screen that all the governments. rules in they fall they are losing. that basic. power as a democratic role. and so. be quiet because they have to take their seats here in one direction got them out that they cannot touch

. tax capital because it's no. and so they hold the european states united kingdom in cool but that's not for the. rules somebody. and this is the idea that we can preserve the the. protagonist of the war by the united states and the financial markets of too strong and so i've got a week i was so very keen to gather all the windows all i want to support. the former president of the european commission and prime minister of it's me thank you for speaking with oh it's a thank you. there

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right there. in that a lot of people say they don't know why i don't understand that. because we might say. oh society has condemned these people as less than human it is necessary to punish everything we do to punish crime is unpleasant . but it needs to be done the body wants to be linked to the nazis but the historical antecedents of the american death penalty today come in large part from the nazis and the sad part is to take 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 every time i go by.

i won't be there i will now my. two thirty am in moscow here are the headlines violence flares in syria with renewed fighting in the central city of homs growing concern of even more civilian casualties. first around election results said the president along the way to a majority in the french parliament with a decisive second round due on sunday. russian police raid the homes of prominent opposition figures in connection with last month's massive protests throughout. in-depth look at capital punishment in the u.s. stay with us.

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