we have been able to speak to the spokes person of the u.n. supervision mission here in damascus they've confirmed to have the fighting in homes they confirm the use of heavy artillery machine guns and they've also been reporting about showing it's from helicopter we're also hearing that they've been a large number of civilians trapped inside this fighting and also the u.n. mission spokesperson has told us that they 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 and indeed there is a growing peace plan peaceful solution for this syrian crisis is now seriously threatened. when nato meanwhile is now openly hinting at a possible military intervention in syria but aren't says chief france compare the situation there to that of yugoslavia in one nine hundred ninety s. before it was bombed by nato into submission international relations professor mark

almond says the u.s. is sticking to its idea of regime change the united states and britain and france have made a pretty decision by a long haul of their as a way of putting pressure on iran changing the. order of the middle east and therefore if they can achieve through syrian domestic horses through deniable or other arab special forces launch. surprise weapons or who do that but ultimately i think they would not wish to accept a defeat assad's regime survived it would be a huge geopolitical so for the whole of our relations between our states and its allies in syria and iran are overwhelmingly ultimately in favor of western states but of course to go in on the ground i could be written in kosovo in one hundred nine against serbia is a big risk for the could be casualties on our side it's not clear what opinions also committed to regime change up across of our own soldiers and so what have you

know rock is still a very one sided international call. but of course would want to become a multi sided conflict that would explain the dangerous and though the risk of course of an explosion. well the mainstream media has been hot on the syrian regime from the outset boring reports of rebel atrocities persistently hounding assad that often contradictory sound bites but also lyrics pains for some it's part of a first strike affected by decades of practice images like these. and words like these innocent civilians were beaten imprisoned and the violence protect civilians are often would have preceded military operations in the name of stopping brutal killings by hardened dictators and while authoritarian regimes are not devoid of responsibility for atrocities the story often ends there especially when leaders of intervening countries have to justify their wars to their people it's depressingly easy to sell a war it's almost becoming

a habit actually even in spite of all that we. are told over iraq the same stereotypes crop up again and again and again regardless of who or what kind of regime is being attacked whether it's a secular regime or a religious one to the viewer it's about the good guy bad guy it's about saturating us over and over and over again with the same images here's what they're good at. the viewing audience without exposing your true. in one thousand nine hundred ninety agree. told the story of what iraqi soldiers did to babies in a kuwaiti hospital to think it is children to die of a clue. her testimony was widely publicized and cited by politicians in justifying their support for kuwait in the first gulf war turned out she was the daughter of the kuwaiti ambassador to the us and her testimony was part of a public relations campaign run by an american p.r.

agency for the kuwaiti government sparking controversy and public anger. p.r. firms or individuals spin doctors consulting for governments and politicians is certainly not new or uncommon but while there may be a need for effective communication there is also a very thin line between that and saddam hussein to build and keep weapons of mass destruction out right manipulation as many would point to the nonexistent weapons of mass destruction he used as a pretext for western powers to attack iraq in two thousand and three. communication is a weapon each slogan is a dumb billet advertising terms have become war terms we talk about targets we talk about strategy we talk about its impact this is terrible but it is also a weapon in the war because all wars are broadcast live and these images can influence world opinion with it's already been done several times in the past to change the face of war to bring the bodies to make up you can always simulate

a massacre that is not your current because misinformation it is easier to fall during a period of war. even when history is full of examples to learn from some say people's collective memories are simply too short reality is hardly ever block it white truth is many sides to it but when the wheels feel warm and start serving up polish that happens the facts take a back seat first a lot of states are often what sticks and even if corrections apologies come later the damage has already been done the plots are often the reverse of the. tougher so you are to me part. well still to come this ignorance. is bliss guantanamo bay prisoners of justice as the u.s. turns a blind diagram and is being held for years without being charged with any crime. you optimism over spain's one hundred billion euro bailout crumbles as markets

realise that not even that's enough to bring them back bring. russia's opposition is getting back into protest mode with a planned march through central moscow dates on tuesday a similar rally in may descended into violent clashes with dozens of police officers injured and criminal cases filed against those who started the trouble ortiz degrees across the story in central moscow. fairly on both sides of the fence will not want to see a repeat of what occurred on may the sixth just ahead of the inauguration of bellamy putin as president where do you see those violent clashes suit scene protesters and police and that is largely isn't the target is being hijacked on the day by more hardcore extreme elements of the opposition movement but again though it was dubbed a march of millions and on the day according to many conservative estimates only about a thousand people turned out now for today's proceedings has been officially sanctioned for about fifty thousand people we don't know just yet if we're going to be able to

drum up support because this is a poor space that has been dwindling recently really piques on the back of the parliamentary elections with allegations let's fraud but just off the presidential elections then ever since then petered out some but now just yesterday we saw police race taking place a number of homes of key opposition leaders a moment let's say in the valley anticorruption blogger that's for their alleged involvement in organizing in may the state's proceedings which ended in that violence today will be quite significant going to be the first mass demonstration since new legislation has been introduced assume if the raising the fines in place or anyone breaking public order regulation also if during a sanction demonstration each cover your face in any way then again you could face quite a severe fine analysts in general has said that there isn't one significant viewpoint one significant leader to take a stand for this movement and they lack warm but equal ideology as well they just

oppose disputed elections and the rule of law to me putin himself as president. israel has arrested dozens of sudanese refugees in the first stage of its plan to deport more than fifty thousand african nationals the country styles itself as a middle east only away so democracy as attractive many africans fleeing from violence in their homelands but their one way journey rarely has a happy ending this post. reports. of the sudanese are a cancer in our body will do everything to return them to their lands strong words from a politician in the country built by those who survived the holocaust. sudanese dissident sudanese to sudan and even stronger words inciting racial hatred against african migrants. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has boasted loud that israel is the only democracy in the middle east and yet it's his own politicians

who calling for verse that vehicle it that we need to expel the info treaters from the lands of israel and we shouldn't be afraid to use not. many of the so-called infiltrators have already been expelled once fleeing poverty violence of authoritarian rule some sixty thousand of them have crossed illegally into israel through the relatively poorest desert border with egypt israel is warn of an impending demographic and economic crisis in the future these are people who experience severe trauma in their native land in therefore they saw their villages burned down they were trees who were slaves of a dictatorial regime somewhere in torture camps in sinai and then a new struggle stars for them. is really say most come seeking work rather than refuge and when it comes to growing crime figures the newcomers make convenient scapegoats but the government cannot deport the migrants as they have a group protection those from sudan and eritrea no matter what the circumstances

cannot be sent back because they face possible persecution and so they stay but without work permits and denied the most basic rights like shelter and food i feel very scary that most for that we have this this is a really really scary we feel like very secure. now and then there will be the. arts of violence for the refugees and their already have been apartments of african workers set alight and almost daily beatings far from dealing with the situation prime minister netanyahu has announced his intention to go ahead with building a detention center to house ten thousand africans and to enforce a controversial law that will allow is radial forty's to imprison illegal immigrants for up to three years without a trial then as soon as the leg they should look into the eyes of these africans who fled violence and despair and think about what they're doing to see how they're

demonized how they're called names is terrible i am ashamed and i'm ashamed as an israeli as a jew in recent months street violence against the africans has surged all the more insidious because it seems to be getting the nod from above policy r.t. . well we've got the world covered at r.t. dot com including details on the u.s. state to an obscure onor says it can be encouraged to polygamy on a police officer. class watch what you do on the web of russian tech security for ones were in the midst of an international cyber war with the same people behind two of the most damaging campaigns to date. well high tech gadgets and software are supposed to make our lives much simpler but

to do it they have to gather your private data this fair about what the tech firms are doing with your personal info where you can really keep anything secret anymore but our teacher in the sarge makes the cypherpunk movement to say they're fighting your corner. well might even million people have a security clearance and they're allowed to access that private data point really how can you call the data private right that's the problem is that it is not actually truly one hundred percent secret from every person on the poem it is only secret from the people who are from the pile of the powerful you're exactly sure when we talk about internet censorship it is about centralizing the power to get online what people remember be able to access or not and whether it's government censorship or also private on censorship there are tinging 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 feel what i suspect is that global universal internet is the only tool we still have between our hands to saw a rebel and 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. yesterday the sun will be here at our eleven thirty g.m.t.

and if you've missed any of the series so far you can catch all editions at r.t. dot com. now a hundred billion euros is not enough to allay the e.u.'s pains that's the message being signaled by investors but just days after the eurozone agreed to an enormous bailout for spanish banks initial market optimism quickly evaporated spanish journalist. says that on top of all that broken drop a spine years of being left to fend for themselves the spanish government has been pushing a very very strict agenda austerity cuts for months already we've seen that before in all their bailout countries when you're one hundred billion euro seen to any economy there. for a few days and then investors realize that we're still in an economic crisis in an economic downturn in the case of a spain even in a recession certainly the banks have to be bailed out we need our banking system intact of course but people he's angry because the banks are actually at the root

cause of this 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 not exciting why they're angry. well next our naughty american economist nouriel roubini tells us why europe's debt ridden states can't all be toyed with the same brush. some people tend to say the eurozone problem is because of lack of fiscal discipline or fiske of reckless those that applies really the really only the greece the as a result a lie then. that is of fifteen percent of g.d.p. and the deficit blowup and then that led to the fiscal crisis but actually in the spring when the island was the product cycle that eventually led to the problems of having to bail out the banks large that was that great of a fiscal problem without a fiscal problem the first place. so you know you cannot generalize there are

different types of crisis within the eurozone. but the u.s. supreme court is refusing to hear an appeal found by seven guantanamo bay prisoners being locked up for lengthy periods without even being charged despite president obama's natural promise to close the tourist facility for good and the worthington author of the going ton of files believe such an approach makes a mockery of the entire u.s. justice system. the last two years in particular the d.c. circuit court so the appeals court has been rewriting the rules of detention has been overriding that it's citizens that were made by the district court judges has been saying effectively anything that the government says we should be treating as though it's true. and has been stopping any of the prisoners being released through these legal means in the last two years not a single prisoner has when they hate this court was decision it's very very

politically motivated by the d.c. circuit courts these are very right wing judges they don't want prisoners released under any circumstances what was happening in the early days was that judges were very impartially looking at the evidence and saying look you're calling upon the evidence of some of the prisoners fellow detainees you we also see here that you have actually said that you don't trust the statements that were made by a lot of these prisoners we don't trust your statements that were made by people in the field they were very carefully looking at all the different sides as they're supposed to do but there's been these persistent refusal to release people regardless of how they're judged and i think that makes a mockery of the entire process if we keep having review processes under bush and now under obama saying we do not want to keep holding these people and yet we don't release them what does that say for our notions of justice it makes

a mockery of it were coming up at zero nine thirty g.m.t. the u.s. also comes under fire as one of the few countries that still uses capital punishment our special report looks at the people campaigning for it to end and inmates who spent years on death row. you've got a story around about this crazy lady with a convertible that. these people. but it needs to be done nobody wants to be linked to the. goal. of the american death penalty today in large part.

american negotiators have left after weeks of efforts failed to reach a deal on supply afghanistan about it. last year after american drone strikes killed twenty four local soldiers their rounds intensified since then with. civilians.

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 there doesn't seem to be any simple solution right now beyond the us finally coming to its senses and apologizing for the november attacks 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 all the time. weather around the world out some more of this hour's international stories a roadside bomb explosion struck an ambulance in northern afghanistan killing at least four people a pregnant woman who was on route to hospital to give birth reportedly survived the blast authorities say the air is occasionally hit by insurgent activity a few days ago a jailbreak engineered by the taliban freed more than a dozen militants. but as one person who has routed thousands of his supporters to his bid for re-election he was first elected back in one thousand nine hundred eight seeking another six year term at the vote in october he spent the past year undergoing treatment for cancer including two surgeries. and successful. reports that egypt's former president hosni mubarak is in a coma he has been the teary to hear of the past few days with doctors having to

revive the eighty four year old after his heart stopped twice for barack is now in a car oh prison hospital assertion of a life term for his role in the killing of hundreds of protesters last year's uprising. right interview show spotlight is coming up very soon every couple of the headlines stay with us.

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you're watching our t.v. time for look at the headlines now united nations observers were intensification in the rebel attacks across syria as nato into the possible armed incursion with or without u.n. backing. position activists scare up for another mass rally in moscow after a similar last month lots of clashes protests trend down the drain. and israel begins implementing its plan to expel more than fifty thousand dollars for going refugees what's seen as a racist pledging policy deepens and self-styled releases of democracy. the foundation of modern russia celebrates its twenty one a verse for today up next veteran politicians. looks at what the holiday means for

young state centuries of history. hello again to walk them through spotlight into the now it's time now we're not. sitting here. june the twelfth is the big holiday here in russia and this day in ninety nine the russian federation as we know it today first sounded small proclaiming. the u.s.s.r. was agonizing. and collapse very soon.