just before the two teams go head to head in morristown the latest pictures here from the polish capital. and other news a mass opposition protest has taken place in moscow the demonstration drew activists from a range of political groups and went off peacefully in contrast to a violent rally last month that time there were dozens of injuries to protesters and police with criminal cases filed against those who started the trouble is peter oliver brings us the latest from central moscow we saw tens of thousands of people demonstrating on the streets of moscow they came from all across the political spectrum in the country from the far left to far right extremist groups to say the the nationalists and far right groups were amongst the the largest in attendance now why was tape walking with those demonstrators along the route i did see several amongst the group of nationalists wearing perrier shoes on all nazi uniforms

including one woman wearing a take on the s.s. uniform including a a banner around tehran bearing a russian nationalists symbol of course these people did come from all across the political structure is i say they came to voice their displeasure with the russian government this demonstration went off incredibly peacefully i didn't see anything like the violent clashes we saw during the previous protests in moscow in may of this year now then we saw the demonstrations really hijacked by radical groups and we saw clashes which resulted in. the demonstrators themselves on police being injured now that resulted in the apartments the homes of those leaders of the protest movement having their houses search to see if they were involved in organizing those. violent attacks and we also saw changes to the law here in russia

regarding what punishments would be in place for those breaking the law during demonstrations the government saying that they did this to bring the fines and the sentences in line with other european countries which means you could see a fine for severe breaking of the law we're talking about things like causing serious damage to people and property here it is as high as seven thousand euro fortunately we didn't see any of that type of violence today and this protest went off pretty much without a hitch despite the weather. so abrasions of russia today are taking place in the heart of moscow. up to thirty thousand people expected at moscow's red square today to commemorate russia's that national day twenty two years of russian sovan to join me later for more details all the celebration that's happening here live from red square. syria has been seeing spikes in violence on

a daily basis u.n. observers now report not just offensive by government forces but also an increase in coordinated rebel attacks two conflicting reports on the number of victims and forces behind the violence triggered conflicting reactions from world powers or israel for a notion is into masochist. un morning to us have reported a heavy surge in recent weeks of rebels called a nation and attacks in response they say the syrian government has given the army too much freedom and too much free rein and that all the lads too dramatic increase in civilian dads one of the most stark in the recent example of this fresh wave of violence here in syria is we have we are to rebuild bodman to of the rebel stronghold backed by helicopter strikes in the central province of holmes and again we've been receiving conflicting reports of exactly what happened there with opposition claiming the syrian army has been targeting mashallah in the residential areas of the town and

while the government has been accusing the rebels of using civilians as human shoot during these attacks death toll yesterday alone stood at sixty three people according to opposition sources with more than a third of them army soldiers the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon has said that he's deployed concerned over the increasing violence in syria and has called on all countries with influence on both the rebels and syrian government to call all parties to stop while to stop atrocities to lay down arms and to pull back as he pulled it from the brink at the same time we're hearing claims of completely different nature from another international organization with a surge of violence has been seized on by nato chief hinting at a possible intervention mr rasmussen has compared the events in syria today with those in the balkans during the nineteen nineties that led to nato is bombardment of former yugoslavia we've also been hearing

a lot about military intervention recently from both you and nato member britain foreign secretary william hague has said that this scenario cannot be ruled out he's also stressed that this up to assad to decide whether he wants to seize the violence and all atrocities in his country and fulfill the rebels' demands at the same time we know hague. that is the way over kind of terrorist operating in syria saying that the international terrorist organization could fuel the violence and could fuel this conflict so it's that and the west's message is somewhat muddled that assad is not responsible for all violence here in his country but he is being held responsible regardless well to further discuss the situation in syria we're now joined live from washington by john or co-director of the think tank foreign policy in focus thank you for being with us i want to start with the u.n.

peacekeeping chief reportedly admitting to some journalists that the syrian conflict has indeed descended into civil war is this going to change anything in the international approach that we're seeing right now to the syrian turmoil i don't think it will change a great deal since of course most people acknowledge that the situation in syria has been a civil war for some time it might put a little bit more pressure on for instance russia and china to acknowledge the severity of the situation but i think off the record everyone agrees that this is an intolerable situation perhaps off the record we do hear about civil war but officially it's very much reported that this is a one sided attack we're now seeing un peacekeepers openly highlighting better attacks are not just by government forces but also by the rebels do you think that we can expect any pressure on the opposition from that or do you think that the outside regime will continue to bear the brunt of the blame that we're hearing.

well i think there still is considerable asymmetry in the amount of force in syria today i mean the government still has a great deal more on file and. in the means to. an act of violence and the opposition does of course the opposition has been getting more weapons primarily from government forces from army people usually through sales factors but there are still great to be balance of power so i think that at least for the forseeable future the government will continue to bear the brunt terms of international pressure to restrain it from can from committing i mean rights of muslims that we've just heard that un observers vehicles have been attacked while trying to reach one of the embattled villages and that it wasn't government troops or rebels in fact but it was locals angry locals you think about the sign of

people's opposition to a large foreign presence in their country well i think it indicates more frustration at the fact that the u.n. has really not done very much at all on the ground you know of course there is a u.n. brokered cease fire that didn't do very much there have been you know u.n. monitors but they too have only been able to reach certain areas and then after they've left violence it's continued so i think there's a great deal of frustration on the ground in syria about the international community in general its failure to respond and all of that is focused on the u.n. and its failures outside of the u.n. russia has repeatedly called for an international conference on syria with foreign minister lavrov saying just today in fact that moscow is ready to host such an event why do you think there is such strong opposition to this proposal from the west or

a lack of response really to kind of sitting down and trying to get through this diplomatically. well i think a lot of it has to do with. suspicion of russian motives obviously russia continues to supply syria with military aid and perhaps more importantly a degree of political support china to a lesser extent as well for iran of course i think the united states its nato partners are suspicious of the intent of bringing together people for discussion when this these forces are taking place in the background. now of course the response would be there would be no perhaps discussion if assad had no supporters the government of course would be relatively isolated and i think that's in some sense what the united states and its partners are looking for to isolate assad as much as possible they see many kind of multilateral negotiations almost as

a lifeline thrown to the assad regime and negotiations helping it find some way out of its current situation short of resignation in regime change right john save for live with us on the line co-director of foreign policy in focus again from washington thank you. we get these founder julian assange has asked britain's supreme court to reopen the case regarding his extradition to sweden almost two weeks after he lost his appeal there his lawyers challenge the legality of the previous ruling in what's said to be in an unusual move while the famous whistleblower is wanted in sweden over sex crime allegations but his supporters fear his extradition will just be a step towards handing him over to the u.s. recently his contacts and acquaintances experience evidence of the pursuit of assad some of them being held for questioning particularly after taking part in his program that's broadcast here on r t so you can watch the latest edition of us on

just so throughout the day is he as activists from. the cypherpunks movement about the invisible war over our future that's being fought on mine but the fundamental things that cypherpunks written recognize is that the architecture actually defines the political situation so you have a centralized architecture even if the best people in the world are in control of it no matter where we look we can see especially with financial systems that that effectively even if the people have the best of intentions it doesn't matter i mean dark there sure is the truth it's true for the internet with regard to communications the so-called lawful intercept systems which are which is just a nice way of saying spying on people but let's say you can do some local and say yeah sort of what a lawful murder you heard about also the author of the rights on american citizens by the u.s. president obama you know when he killed on lorillard he's sixteen year old son in yemen that's it lawful murder or targeted killing as they put it right so so-called lawful intercept is the same thing you just put lawful in front of everything and

then all of a sudden because the state does it it's legitimate but it's in fact the architecture of the state that allows them to do that at all and is the architecture of the laws and the architecture of the technology just is the same as it's the architecture of financial systems and what the cypherpunks wanted to do was to create systems where we could compensate each other in a truly free way where it was not possible to interfere. you go on to the second part of julius not just talk with cypherpunks activists later on archie and if you missed the first part that we aired last week it is of course available as well as all the other series at r.t. dot com. the rescue package for spanish banks will come with strings attached that's the message from the german chancellor who said that help will be tied to reforms in the banking sector now it contradicts comments from the country's prime minister who dedicated that one hundred billion euros of financial aid was different from the conventional balance of other eve states political risk

consultant john holzman says it's getting harder and harder for you paul. to make investors believe their strategy. the point is that of course the germans are going to part with their money without conditions mrs merrill has a very tough political scene or sell and if she were said to just give the spanish one hundred million euro the people in germany would think she'd lost her mind so of course they're going to be conditions of course the troika is going to look over spanish banks of course there's going to be conditionality the e.u. level and the spanish and what's happening is you see the politics of this getting harder and harder mrs merkel needs that conditionality the spanish government can't hope to survive if there is that conditionality they've lost control of the story and they're beginning to believe this nonsense the crisis has followed a pattern they're going for any bailouts for greece of portugal ireland and now spain and what's happened is that after every bailout the amount of time it takes the markets to read the fine print realize that indeed this is nonsense it isn't all said get smaller and smaller and smaller so we've gone from two months to two

weeks to two days and in the case of spain it took literally two hours for things to turn around this is by far the end from from the end of the story later on r.t. american economist nouriel roubini tells us where the eurozone financial wells could ultimately lead the union and the global economy. there is certainly a risk that the situation could become these or that in the eurozone like it does all of the early default an exit by greece then contagion with iran on the banks and a tally of blame then there was market access there and then they eventually have to restructure that that's an event that's not sufficient in a few years on the line they also exit the euro zone in which case the eurozone you know breaks up and you could have a significant european and a global you know financial turmoil and then you could end up like japan with a long term stagnation if not another depression it's very.

hard we now return to more so where there's breaking news this hour polish football fans have attacked supporters of the russian team several people have been injured in the clash of police reportedly fired rubber bullets to disperse them all this happened just hours before the two countries poland and russia go head to head in their group match in the european championships r.c. sports correspondent richard van portland now joins us on the line live from the polish capital richard some pretty intense pictures we saw coming out of warsaw what is going on in the polish capital. of the russians had organized the march to celebrate satisfying day independence day on the twelfth of perjury and that's the mantra been approved by the local authorities here i'm also my point in time egypt and my protest from the right wing governments all right many politicians here in europe only so much went on no those are my ties and russians also those.

people are really really focused towards you know who you know i'm interested people having a good time mancini you know people who get in trouble i have some trouble with the russian folk it's been pretty it's done you can stream he's also used to cause trouble he's more people cause trouble mrs ford has just been trying. i'm going to be paid in what's called a full game i'm told they were accompanied by around six thousand. but let me go nearer and nearer the previous groups of polish hooligans to try to track them rushing around a creature with the bird from up and then trying to attack the russian. aggression by pointing to the prince for trying to protect russian bands and eventually rubber bullets were fired they would. use more cannon goes well to try and not protect russian. but yeah that's what's really nice feature publication from the polish side have been counseled. prima russian and i've been taken to hospital one of

which has been a critic hundred condition obviously not the what sort of news you will be wanting to hear but borat might scratch. around for the why with us on the line from warsaw thank you very much for that update. in other news israel is detaining dozens of african migrants in the first stage of the leadership's plan to deport over four thousand people from the country it's after the government initially welcomed the refugees who were trying to escape violence in their homeland because it is poles there explains they face further strife upon their return home so that even some of the sudanese are a cancer and nobody 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 sit down 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 cling to first that easily we need to expel the infiltrators 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 is rabies 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 eritrea's who were slaves of a dictatorial regime somewhere in torture camps in sinai and then a new struggle stars for their own israeli 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 very scary we feel like very secure. now and then there will be the. arts of violence towards that if it is 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 is radial forty's to imprison illegal

immigrants for up to three years without a trial then assume a leg should look into the eyes of visa africans who fled while ns 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'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. television. ok now at some other world headlines this hour as many as one hundred people are feared dead two earthquakes rattled northern afghanistan rescue workers continue to search for survivors after a tremor sparked a massive landslide during dozens of homes the damage has been reported across five districts with only a few people being called from the rubble alive the quake was felt as far away as the capital kabul one hundred seventy kilometers south. you know it was

pakistan a commander of anti taliban forces has survived an attack from a suicide bomber but two of his bodyguards were killed the local tribal leader wasn't in his car when the explosives were set off two other people were injured in the attack which comes just days after a similar strike killed nineteen on a bus carrying government employees no one has claimed responsibility for either incident. egypt's former president hosni mubarak is said to be in stable condition after doctors work to revive him when his heart stopped twice but the country's official news agency deny that mubarak went into a coma city and as some reports suggested the eighty four year old's health has worsened over the last few days the former leader is now in a cairo prison hospital serving a life term for his role in the killing of hundreds of protesters during last year's uprising. right now take him back to the heart of the russian capital where

massa liberations of russia they are in full swing here in moscow and across the country really are too savvy say is there for us here in moscow what is this holiday about tell us more and how are russians at least where you are marking the day. it's been a wonderful day a day where you know it started off a little bit to start it was raining and everybody thought that this concert would in pick up but certainly the sun came out and said we're not going to stop anybody from a ten day thirty four thousand people i here today had to moscow's a red square to commemorate twenty two yes the russian federation is solvency now ninety ninety four just blows up the russian the soviet union for russia decided to have a busy day as a day that the whole nation can celebrate the emblem of the flag the national anthem now today oh wait it's all about celebration we're here with pops does we're

here with all the teams from around the country we're here to entertain the crowds and give them a piece of that just peachy offers a bit everybody on a day like this it's been an absolutely wonderful day we've had to see we've seen the. lady was thinking and literally everybody was so excited to see them this huge shoulders everything for everybody from old richie young it's really truly is just a wonderful day out for the whole family had opposed we're expecting that by our display in just a couple of hours so we'll definitely be staying around here for that it's. all right well you have fun out there hope the rain doesn't come back in time your mom say live from central moscow. it's coming up to twenty six minutes past the hour you are with r t it's time now to check in with what's happening in the world of business let's cross and cross over i should say through. you need to be and it's looking positive today on the markets why the good mood certainly not because

of russia day the markets here in new york and the close in the u.s. there are poor around one percent i don't think that's connected with the russian national holiday it's more of hopes of stimulus additional stimulus to the u.s. economy to the european economy that the fed will be continuing monetary easing or will be continuing stimulus measures so basically this is why we're seeing so what we're seeing on the russian the u.s. markets right now the dow jones is up almost one percent as you can see their point nine the nasdaq a bit weaker point to seven percent now this is despite the fact that in europe we have seen different events with these spanish bond yields coming up to a euro iraq high of six point eight six percent up thirty three basis points and therefore the footsie was up three quarters of a percent the dax point three percent indeed investors are pretty cautious still ahead of the crucial election in greece which are due on sundays of that could of

course shed light depending on the results whether the problems will persist with austerity will be taking place for the wrong in the country. also cyprus may be the next country poised for an international bailout on monday its finance minister hinted the country may apply for financial aid before the end of this month and that's in case the economy finds it difficult to support banks which are exposed to greece. in asia we've seen a pretty different picture with the nikkei down more than one percent as the i.m.f. is pressuring the bank of japan to go ahead with monetary easing and in russia there was no trading on today because of a national holiday indeed we will see more trading tomorrow on wednesday when the russian markets will have to catch up. vogue area will get an eleven percent discount on natural gas that is buying from russia starting from april worth around one hundred twenty million dollars the offer is conditional on signing the south stream pipe. deal to bring natural gas to southern and central europe gas from

a finance both russian and garion parts of the pipeline and uncovered sources from transit payments on the commodities markets investors are waiting for a crucial first day meeting of opec when they may go ahead as certain countries especially venezuela run pressuring for production cuts meanwhile saudi arabia has been saying that collective efforts in increasing production could happening could be happening and therefore there's downward pressure on the bread's is down more than one dollars out and then currencies the euro is regaining its positions against the u.s. dollar we've seen a bit of a rollercoaster ride for the currency ahead of these greek elections that's all i have for you this out. all right thanks for that update we'll have more from you a bit later now in just a few minutes the latest doing the science show today about whether or not it's possible to keep anything secret in the world of modern communications that straight after wrap up the headlines.

regards to you live from the russian capital our top stories tens of thousands of opposition activists rally in central moscow with agendas ranging from the far left to nationalistic stream and. violence intensifies across syria with un observers pointing out a spike in coordinated rebel attacks which government troops have to repair our boxers leading to foreign powers increasingly hinting at intervention. and no room for refugees after promising to provide sanctuary israel begins arresting african migrants to avoid violence in their homeland and plans to deport over four thousand people. just ahead julia songe meets the cypherpunks movement activists to look at whether your privacy is

a thing of the pats. i am truly innocent. editor of wiki leaks web expose the secret these documents belong the united states government being attacked by the united states strongly condemn the classic people for illegally should. be tamed without charge but that hasn't stopped. the day. that can change the world tomorrow. a furious.