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 strong helicopter we also hear in fact 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 officers 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 the syrian crisis is now seriously threatened when they tell me what is now opening hinting at a possible military intervention in syria the lances chief has compared the situation there to that of yugoslavia in the one nine hundred ninety s. before it was bombed into submission by netter winter nationalizations the

professor mark almond this is the us is sticking to its idea of regime change the united states and britain france have made pretty decision by a long haul of their 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 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 our relations with her 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 ninety ninety nine again sort of there is a big risk for the you know the could be casualties on our side it's not clear a question public opinion is also committed to regime change of the price of war and soldiers and so what have you know now iraq is still a very one sided international calls. but of course would want to become

a multi-sided culture streaming dangerous and lower the risk of course of an explosion. well mainstream media has been hot on the syrian regime from the outset largely ignoring reports of rebel atrocities while persistently hounding asset backed by often contradictory sound bites. explains 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. the lies told over iraq the same stereotypes 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 now here's what they're good at. the viewing audience without exposing your true. in one thousand nine hundred. twelve the story about iraqi soldiers did to babies in a kuwaiti hospital to think it is children today have 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 but 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's 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. advertising terms have become war terms we talk about targets we talk about strikes again we talk about its impact if this is terrible it is also a weapon in the war because all wars are broadcast live and these him and he's going through this world opinion body but it's already been done several times in the past change the face of war to bring the bodies to make up you can always simulate

a massacre that is not our current it was misinformation it is easy to fall during a period of war we first need to get it even when history is full of examples to learn from some say people's collective memories are simply too short to reality is hardly ever block in what has many sides to what the weather will be a warm i think start serving up polish the top of the facts take a back seat at the first a lot at stake for all but one stick and even if corrections apologies come later the damage has already been talk of what profit the reverse of. us are still here our team. also the come the ignorances. blisse going to abate prisoners are denied justice as the u.s. turns a blind eye to those being held for years without even being charged with any crime . optimism over spain's one hundred billion euro bailout crumbles as markets realize that not even that's enough to bring them back from the brink.

russia's opposition is getting back into protest mode with a planned march through central moscow day two on tuesday a similar rally in may descend into violent clashes with dozens of police officers injured in criminal cases filed against those who started the trouble grieves is across the story in central moscow. many 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 we do see those but a clash seat seen protests is police and that is largely as interpreters be 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 eight 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 that support because it's support space that has been dwindling recently really weeks on the back of the parliamentary elections

with allegations let's fraud but just off the presidential elections then it was intended petered out somewhere now just yesterday we saw police raids taking place in a number of homes of key opposition leaders among the less same abounding anticorruption blogger that's for their alleged involvement in organizing may the state's proceedings which ended in now violence today will be quite significant going to be the first mass demonstration since new legislation has been introduced the same with the raising the fines in place or anyone breaking public order regulation overboard so if during a sanction demonstration you 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 particular 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 the middle east anyway says of democracy has attracted many africans fleeing from violence in their homelands but that one way journey rarely has a happy ending this post reports. i thought that is so but the sudanese are a cancer in our body who 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 dissidents sudanese to sit down and even stronger words inciting racial hatred against african migrants. point 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 first. we need to expel the infiltrators from the

lands of israel and we shouldn't be afraid to use that word many of the so-called infiltrators have already been expelled once fleeing poverty violence or before a tyrian will some sixty thousand of them have crossed illegally into israel through the relatively poorest dysart border with egypt israel is warn of an impending demographic and economic crisis. these are people who experienced 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 starts 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 towards the refugees and there 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 its radial forty's to imprison illegal immigrants for up to three years without a trial then assume a leg they should look into the eyes of visa 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 i am 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. tel aviv. where i've got the world covered at r.t. dot com including details on the us state of skill north says it can be carried with a gun or a police officer. plus watch what you do on the web a russian tech security firm warns were in the midst of an international cyber war the same people behind to the most damaging campaigns to date. high tech gadgets and software are supposed to make our lives much simpler but to do it they have to gather your private data but there's fear over what the tech

firms are doing with your personal info and whether you can really keep anything secret anymore they don't r.t. during the sundries the cypherpunk movement you say they're fighting your corner. well my country if a million people have a security clearance and they're allowed to access that private four point three million 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 power of the powerful exertional when we talk about internet censorship it is about centralizing the power to do it online what people remain be able to access or not and whether it's government censorship or also private on censorship there are changes in the architecture of the internet from one universal network to a bulk and ization of smaller 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 when i suspect is that global universal internet is the only tool we still have between our hands to sort of wrestle them 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 sanders had eleven thirty g.m.t. and if you missed any of the series so far you can catch all the additions at r.t. dot com. know one hundred billion the euros is not enough to allay the e.u.'s pains

that's the message being signaled by investors just days after the eurozone agreed to enormous bailout for spanish banks initial market optimism quickly evaporated spanish journalists miguel and schermerhorn says that on top of all that broken jobless spaniards are being left to fend for themselves. 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. for a few days and then investors realize that we're still in an economic crisis in an economic downturn in the case of spain even in a recession 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 at the root cause of this crisis in the case of history because of the property bubble the

cheap loans and all that so people would be saying why very loud bangs very loud to us we also have you know besides saying why they're angry. we're at this hour an hour to american economist nouriel roubini tells us why europe's debt ridden states can't all be tarred with the same brush. sometimes people tend to say the eurozone problems because of lack of his called the visibly in office gov reckless those that applies really the really only degrees you know it's a lie then. that is the fifteen percent of g.d.p. . that is it and then that led to the fiscal crisis that actually in spain in the island was the private side of that eventually led to the problems of having to bail out the banks large that is that great of a fiscal problem was not with his core problem the first place. so you cannot generalize there are different types of crisis within the eurozone.

the u.s. supreme court is refusing to herit appeal filed by seven kuantan of bay prisoners who were being locked up for then three periods without even being charged but despite president obama's election will promise to close the tourist facility for good and the worthington author of the kuantan of files believes such an approach makes a mockery of the entire us justice system. for the last two years in particular the d.c. circuit court said 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 affectively 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 hey this court was a decision it's very very politically motivated by the d.c. circuit court he's a very right wing judges they don't want prisoners released under any circumstances

what was happening in the early days was the 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 refusals 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. coming up at the nine thirty g.m.t. the us also comes on the fire as one of the few countries that still uses capital

punishment a special report looks at the people campaigning for it and an inmate on death row . you've got a story around about this crazy lady with a convertible that. these people. it is necessary to punish everything we do to punish crime. but it needs to be done nobody wants to be linked to the. goal. of the american death penalty today in large part from the nazis and. their way. and they executed.

telling me they came here. have left pakistan after weeks of efforts failed to reach a deal on reopening supply routes into afghanistan. convoys last year after the american drone strike killed twenty four. intensified since then with. civilians. from antiwar dot com he's the us is about winning pakistan's favor. i think right now the the administration is determined to part trade 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 that which the u.s. is adamant about not wanting to apologize for 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 to it expensive to use essentially agents apply 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 and 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. well looking around the world out some more about this hour's international stories a roadside bomb explosion has 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 area is occasionally hit by insurgent activity a few days ago a job break engineered by the taliban freed more than a dozen militants. as well in president chavez has rallied thousands of his supporters to launch is really action first elected back in one thousand nine hundred eight seeking another six year term vote in october he spent the past year on the during treatment for cancer including two surgeries and. been successful. in united states and south korea have held more joint military training. live fire exercise and more than any of them off to launch rocket systems a practice takes place wiring that. launch

a third long range rocket test overturned. the reports that egypt's former president hosni mubarak is in a coma has been deteriorating over the past few days with doctors having to revive the eighty four year old after his heart stopped twice and barack is now in a car a prison the hospital in a lifetime his role in the killing of hundreds of protesters during last year's uprising. well and now it's time to head over to katie on the business desk hi there katie so we're yesterday the market seemed to be relatively upbeat but best to seem to change their minds now yeah exactly as they go barely legal of a story actually now carry the optimism on the markets which was fueled by the spanish bank of one hundred twenty six billion dollars is now giving way to the uncertainty the health concerns over the. details also sent spanish

bonds high are surging by the most in four months now investors are continuing with course we've got the greek election on june the seventeenth of course also possible federal reserve or european bank easing two a loss to consider this week so trading is relatively thin as well and bet is holding on to the positions in anticipation of all of this if you look at the asian markets we'll see how investors are we are seeing right now and i'll china did post them better than expected export data this week so that was boosting momentum but right now it's those international pressures that are really taking hold as you can see also want to mention japan as well because the i.m.f. has said that the yen is overvalued and that it's time for the government to intervene without one a stronger currency of course really puts pressure on exporters as well so japanese exporters will benefit from a weaker currency also because of all this political turmoil going on at the moment

with the greek situation with the strange situation investors are flocking to say the haven occurrences yes ok let's move on and have a look at how the u.s. markets closed up yesterday and they lost their momentum throughout the day they did open up higher as i say find it details that seems to be the big problem the dow jones closed lower for the first time in five sessions also were active over makers that was one of the biggest disappointments they lost over one and a half percent on the session and they came out yesterday with the new software as new technology is coming out as investors want to impress it's over and tech geeks will be loving all of that want also want to mention the fact that now people worldwide have downloaded thirty eight billion apps apple absolutely believe that if you think about the numbers of illegal ok brush i want to mention the fact that it's public holiday today and yesterday was as well so these are the closing figures for saturday that was up to miss him in the i would you believe he had toiled oil and. what can happen in just a couple of days as the ruble it was

a mixed performance about against the basket of currencies actually the euro has lost a lot of the bend surveys one twenty four ninety four now it's still managing to get a but not nearly as much as yesterday when we saw a jump of eight months against the greenback moving on to have a look at the oil prices now oil is now trading at the lowest level in eight months the saudi arabian oil minister was quizzed by reporters yesterday over comments he made at the beginning of june saying that they were going to enlarge their production as i peg they account for forty percent of the world's oil production but he was saying don't get excited it's a maybe we might be there's a meeting on june fourteenth to decide how much production is going to be made in the second half of this years not be interesting because that will impact those oil prices and therefore the russian market or i carried out the markets now if we back with the european i mean figures next hour ok thanks katie for that well in the just started twenty minutes from now we hear from the russian the football squad as

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this is r.t. the main stories where covering for you now this hour united nations observers reporter sharp rise and revel in attacks on syrian forces chief possible regardless of u.n. backing. russian opposition activists scare up for another mass rally in moscow. last month led to crash for the protests trained on the way. begins implementing its plan to expel more than fifty thousand refugees. democracy. every now and economist who predicted that two thousand and eight. nouriel roubini gives us his forecast of what we can expect next and whether europe

can weather the storm. thank you very much for your time in two thousand and six you predicted that there would be a deep economic crisis and six years later we're still in it now did you expect it to last so long that it would be so deep and where are we in the middle in the beginning or maybe there's like the end of the tunnel and the krises morphed into thousand and six was a problem of too much that kind of leverage of the private sector households vinings financial institutions corporates now as a result of the response to their cries raise their skulls thema those are bailing out banks and there is over their massive surge in public that and that facilitates and now there is a risk of conferees as opposed to individuals or bangs going badly qantas having solvent risk in the fall as already.