spokes person of the u.n. supervision mission here in damascus they've confirmed to have a fight in homes they confirm the use of heavy artillery machine guns and they've also been reporting about shelling sprung. we also hearing that they've been a large number of civilians trapped inside the fighting and also the u.n. mission spokesperson has told us that the have the information about a number of syrian army offices being captured the also expressed their concern about this is collation about this violence in the country is a growing peace plan peaceful solution for the syrian crisis is now serious that's fact and 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 had it by you

as have also been calling for military intervention event violate an international law this is something opposing the most committed. and backed peace plan saying there is no other alternative 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 promise support for the rebels u.s. senator john mccain says arab gulf states are supplying entire assad fighters with weapons and hopes to see washington do the same professor of international relations mark allman says 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 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 and deniable

support for the arab special courses and. supplies weapons all who do 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 aware many ultimately in the western states but of course to go in on the ground like in. kosovo in one thousand nine hundred seventy a is a big risk for them leaving the could be casualties on our side it's not clear western public opinion is also committed to regime change on the price of their own soldiers and so what have you know now iraq is still a very one sided international called myspace but of course would want to become a multi-sided conflict that would be extremely dangerous and that is the risk of course of an explosion in this region. will stay with us here on r.t. still to come is there any way to secure your online privacy julian assad with his members of a cyber movement who debate whether there is even such a thing as private data lots of different things for the same god gender inequality

said women in the u.s. are against their 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 parliamentary elections the result raises president francoise lon's chances of securing a majority in both houses in the second round which is set for sunday are these tests are sillier reports from parents. the result 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 and 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 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 it limited 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 pact that the rest of europe is taking so france will be taking a very different approach as 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. court employees in madrid of protested against one hundred billion euro bailout for a spanish banks this amid 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 pursed spanish journalist and writer miguel on show morocco says 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 a steady cats for months already and that is the recent why why the the i.m.f. and the euro zone i'm not asking for those sort front for that agenda to be implemented because they know he's be implemented but now he becomes compulsory not

fund study so that's a different some recent light people around the he's that because they see these that they know the facts so yes certainly the banks have to be bailed out we need our banking system intact of course but people because the banks are actually this is the root cause of these crisis and the case of this face 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 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 of last month's mass anti-government rallies seven people have already been detained in connection with those clashes the organizers have also been summoned for questioning prior to another protest rally planned for tuesday in central moscow ortiz tom barton reports. police have been searching a number of properties those of opposition leaders including the blogger alexei in

a valley. and the t.v. presenter check they took away items such as computer disks and clothes the searches were ordered by a moscow court as part of a criminal investigation into a protest on may the sixth protest was unlike those many before it and that it got violent descended into fighting development no doubt saw 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 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 starting to heat up in poland in ukraine and not just on the pitch polish police arrested fourteen people were involved in a brawl between polish incur a ship. supporters just before sunday's game between croatia and ireland its latest

incident in a string of clashes that have already seen a number of teens warned over their fans behavior but problems surrounding euro two thousand and twelve didn't end there are teams like sara chefs to report. this tournament has received some political overtones even before it had started with several leaders saying they will boycott the championship because of the situation with the graceful 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 it for the year or 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 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 to gainst coming to ukraine in reaction to the unix

machine co-presenting 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 god if they march the streets i'll be 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. analysts and critics say there isn't much you can do online without your phone on your on your phone without someone somewhere knowing about it but there's one group that says they're on your side they're called the cypherpunks movement and they're on julian assange show here on r t to talk about their plans to keep your private data private. and 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 iranians and the chinese and north

koreans they need anonymity and they need freedom and they need all that stuff but we don't need it here and it's very important to know that actually it is not just oppressive regimes because if you happen to be in the top echelon of any regime it's not oppressive to you it turns out right but i mean we consider the u.k. to be a wonderful place we consider generally people think sweden is there 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 songes show airing tuesday at eleven thirty g.m.t. and you can always find all the previous programs online at r.t. dot com wire there you also find this very situation new york's police department fires a jewish officer refused to trim his beard sparking a lawsuit for religious discrimination. saudi arabia's got talent but not

a musical one town there launching its own entertainment show but there was no singing or dancing allowed and women are banned from taking part in fight over details that are to. a state of emergency declared in the rush of southern orenburg region after a military munitions warehouse caught fire take a look at this. authorities say the fire has now been contained and they expected to be completely extinguished shortly aircraft and military fire equipment were deployed after a series of explosions were heard at the base on mother and son were reported missing during the evacuation of the area and now have been found safe. the u.s. has broken off negotiations with pakistan after weeks of talks failed to reopen the key nato trends or routes islam about imposed a blockade on the alliance convoys in november last year after an airstrike killed twenty four pakistani soldiers jason deeds from antiwar dot com says without the

supply routes the u.s. can keep its operations in afghanistan. 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 it is certainly not a good one and it seems like that's gonna create a lot more problems than it solved 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 there doesn't seem to be any simple solution right now beyond the us finally coming to its senses in apologizing for the november attacks stopping the drone strikes 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 all the time. georgia's opposition leader has been fined almost one hundred million dollars in two separate lawsuits billionaire tycoon beads in ivanishvili is in hot water after going after giving out t.v. and tennis to voters and subsidizing party members with cheap cars authorities say it's a violation of the country's law and political parties in the way they're funded ivanishvili believes is an attempt by the authorities to damage the opposition to the parliamentary vote later this year his georgian dream party is expected to provide the main challenge the ruling party of president saakashvili tens of thousands have been gathering in georgia's main cities for a peaceful rallies in support of the opposition. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe as many as one hundred people feared dead after two earthquakes shook northern afghanistan triggering a landslides in a mountainous area dozens of houses thought to be buried by the landslide with u.n. reporting damage across five districts rescuers continue searching through the

rubble for survivors. egypt's interior ministry is backtracked on a previous statement that former president hosni mubarak is in a coma despite this is condition is reportedly deteriorated as the eighty four year old's heart stopped twice and doctors had to revive him lark's 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. to yemen now where at least twenty eight people have been killed in pitched battles between the army an islamist rebels and government forces using warplanes and artillery struck militant positions in the south of the country in their strongest attack today. the us military is backing yemen's campaign against militants with drone strikes on suspected al qaeda targets. finally in the news blog america's women often outperform men in many spheres but recent studies show their salaries still lag behind their male colleagues marina porton i reports. these medical and skate of america's professional force has

undergone major reconstruction over the decades women now make up fifty percent of the nation's labor force sixty percent of the voting population and they've surpassed men in earning advanced college degrees but when it comes to salary the land of opportunity remains a land of inequality for women working women in the u.s. . seventy seven cents for every dollar made by a man according to recent statistics men earn higher salaries says nearly all occupations including nursing teaching and even secretarial work but experts say the pay gap has less to do with all of the patients and much more to do with stereotypes surrounding gender united states the 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 what you put down and say that i need to be more there's so brazen that so sexism i feel like there's look i met men feel they have a higher power of a woman 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 to patients in those occupations women likely are in big wage gap some years in part because it's hard to access that few others like the old boys. what i don't remember the miracle of

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 before a man and there's a bit to get 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 is really due to the participation of women on its platform more than sixty percent of the people who participate in facebook are women maybe even more importantly than that and seventy percent of the actual sharing the 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 lawsuits decades after breaking through the glass ceiling america's working women represent professional muscle but are still fighting for genuine equality. r.t. new york you're back with a have i'm sure earlier but first are to an internet or a mano pro to 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 born it was clear that we needed political links common fiscal policy i have eyes in the program of that and now dorothy too called troll behavior a bad mistake 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 asked at least a highly critical control by the eurostar and they said no and so the greek could

cheat everything when a rise of the program no i remember that helmut kohl say look we did the big africa now we shall call plate eight in the next two years but then europe changes what will greece leaving the euro do to your country italy not to my country all but toward the country the banking system. will be disarray and then and that basically you know the domino effect if you keep getting worse and you gain a lot of money because of circulation. then you're stuck with portugal ireland italy france and the then germany germany and greece of different can they really share a single government and economy with very different food yes look california they have california budget is much warmer. but nobody expects california because of the greek government cheated there is clearly no doubt they have completely cheated

and the deficit was six seven lb i. was declaring it so the day so is not is not to be state it is if i do it you know so you have a good no toddy to push little 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 they only remedy is to become a big dog or too weak to stick together if you are 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 with you at the local level anything that you can do a little respect principle europe is not united states we have not the center of it

but we have some general safe behavior that must be shared but to be clear for example you can take pretty sure the company conversation because. otherwise it is a mystery to move companies from one country to another season also for very good years he's an officer second you have to have a couple rules on the be here were. but probably today then you must have a couple rules on monetary policy these are loss of some of the yes but three percent want to survive the only if you lose it the reason you i don't say i'll be honest but you links from france italy spain and other countries for. more balance of parties and i don't see that they would be

a gauge generally because greece would be stupid you know germany must be the leader of the intense of the economy and we need more than that it is tell me something about the way 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 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. ruzicka they power they are losing. that basic. power as a democratic world. and so. be quiet because they have to take the seat here in one direction got them out but they cannot touch. tax capital because it slows their way and so they all. european states united can go in cool but then so not the for the i'm losing somebody. and this is at the idea that we can preserve the that be. protected east of the war by the united states and of the financial markets of too strong and so i've got a we put our so very good together all the windows all our sympathy for the former

president of the european commission and prime minister of italy thank you for speaking with us a thank you. there hasn't been anything good on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact fox before source material is what helps keep journalism honest reluctant. we

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around russia we've got those huge earth covered. the u.n. secretary general demands the syrian government immediately grant observers access to the town of. called on both sides to pull back amid fears the country sliding into civil war this is violence flared again with sustained heavy shelling of the city of homs. first drive election results it said president party on the way to a majority in the french parliament with a decisive second round sunday. at a russian police raid the homes of prominent opposition figures in connection with clashes a last month's protest rallies organizers have also been summoned for questioning

ahead of another massive demonstration planned for tuesday in central moscow. next veteran russian politicians and reflects on the meaning of today's russian independence day holiday stay with us. please. hello again. into each. time i would know they might. june the twelfth is the big holiday here in russia on this date in nineteen the russian federation as we know.