syria in civil war the bleak u.n. assessment resurgent rebels take the fight to us with frantic efforts underway to salvage kofi annan peace plan. polish football fans show no hospitality attacking russian supporters ahead of a good twenty twelve match the nearly one hundred thirty poles arrested. last crackdown on the whistleblowers the u.k. miles of legislation which could make it harder and riskier the people to expose new break. well news twenty four seven this is r.t.

. syria has plunged into a full scale civil war so says the head of the u.n. peacekeeping operation there over that seuss added that fighting had reached a previously unseen ferocity as government forces seek to blunt a nationwide offensive by the rebels who had withdrawn from the internationally backed cease fire report now has more developments at the u.n. . the a u.n. peacekeeping chief to who recently made those comments saying that the conflict in syria is now a civil war he is the first you want to show to have made that type of declaration following the fifteen months of violence taking place and escalating in syria now of course his words can carry a lot of political weight inside of the security council where the u.s. and its western allies are pushing for sanctions against the assad government now this is been a campaign ongoing for months now the u.s.

pretty much leaving it trying to get russia and china to agree on international sanctions against president bashar al assad until this point we russia and china have opposed any type of international pressure in the in the form of sanctions instead referring to kofi annan six point peace plan and fully supporting that so of course these statements coming from a top u.n. official declaring civil war in syria can be a game changer within the security council in the days ahead you have to remember that ninety day mission three hundred unarmed observers in syria was adopted under the idea that there would be a cease fire in syria if there is no ceasefire what is there left for the observers to be monitoring and that is something that the u.n.

peacekeeping chief mr lots to also stated we should mention that the u.n. said that three u.n. vehicles were fired upon when monitors were trying to enter the syrian town. on tuesday according to the u.n. the crowds were throwing rocks and metal rods and also there were shots fired at the cars nobody was injured but. clearly this increases the amount of danger surrounding the u.n. peacekeepers that are in the country next month this ninety day mandate for this syrian mission the u.n. syrian mission expires and some council members may not be willing to renew this mandate if they feel that the u.n. observers will be in danger if they are in syria which has now been deemed a civil war whether the crisis has reached a new level political analyst among the shabby believes kofi annan plan still

remains syria's only hope i think the situation. very dangerous proportions and there are civilians that are being killed and we have some. there were some pictures of harder but massacres children have been targeted and innocent civilians and i think however it's not too late to i mean i'm afraid that perhaps the statement given by the united nations may may be. desperate call yes but it's not the end of the road there is still a chance to actually have a cease fire to have the plan that has been laid out in the past by kofi annan implemented to have a ceasefire and go for the political dialogue there is no military solution they cannot be a military solution and in fact what the western powers are calling for. military interference is is in insane initiative it would not lead to any progress in this

situation it would only make the situation worse. for coming out the decorated u.s. veterans counting the true cost of battle throwing away the medals they are fighting in their countries want we tell you why. and spain get squeezed by record high borrowing rates after investors fail to be convinced by the help offered to its very banks. nearly one hundred thirty polish football hooligans have been arrested after attacking russian supporters taking part in a sanctioned march. twenty twelve match in warsaw parties for it was their real trouble started really a couple of hours before kickoff or russia had planned march from a city center to a stadium in warsaw which is about two kilometers outside of the city center march was obviously given the go ahead by the local authorities but in forty the trouble started when russian fans started to reach the stadium as a bridge just a few

a few hundred meters away from the stadium and polish fans really tried to attack the russian viands i mean i've been following the russian team for quite a long time and a lot of the fans in this march they were just purely football supporters i mean you can easily tell a football supporter from someone who's looking for trouble and there were a number of casualties. ten people have been taken to hospital and they've been around a hundred arrests and unfortunately. there was trouble brewing as i left the stadium is a very short walk from the stadium where i'm speaking now and you could hear some polish supporters. saying things which could provoke the situation the russian fans were very well reserved didn't respond to these provocations but unfortunately i'm sure it's bound to happen. well for more on what's happening at twenty twelve both on and off the pitch head for r.t. dot com you can meet all twenty three players in the russian squad a small section has profiled the stars and newcomers national team.

also online the flash to follow up papa queen madonna has the headlines after leaving sat down to fifty five thousand fans in turkey. britain is considering it pulling the plug on whistleblowers a bill is circulating through parliament which if it comes into force might discourage people from speaking out against serious violations and corporate wrongdoing so if earth looks now at the possible risks for those who want to do the right thing it's a war of attrition could one. who has nothing against people that have a lot of wealth and lot of power behind them is

a battle against corruption. sequence in this video named collateral murder is just one of many wiki leaks revelations exposing crimes revolutionizing whistleblowing and tearing down the divides between governments and ordinary people in the government's view. exposing wrongdoing complete risky business as wendy addison found out back in two thousand whilst working as a treasurer of the south african company leisure net she discovered the c.e.o.'s was stealing money from shareholders and sending it to offshore accounts and she blew the whistle it was a decade point that my whole life fell apart. lost my career it was it was literally. when i started getting the streets anonymously there were occasions where i was almost inclined to consider accepting society completely. and this is a very common thing for. talking about suicide despite risking everything when he

was in poor old in a lengthy legal wrangling and it would be more than a decade the full days who committed the crime went to jail modern whistleblowing techniques have been giving people more power to take on big corporations and even governments now with the proposed changes to the law potentially threatening the protections also at a time when the culture surrounding whistleblowing be making big leaps forward the law could be set to take a big step back the problems being caused by this the enterprise and regulatory reform bill which is currently making its way through parliament and one small discrete line buried away in the text referring to a public interest test we were really worried that putting in a public interest test into the legislation will have a chilling effect on the ability of workers to speak up a member of the international whistleblowing research network and an employment lawyer david lewis tells us the proposed test has dropped

a bomb on whistle blowing provisions the great virtue of the existing provisions is there's no public interest it was a very simple test as long as you had enormous motu if you could be sure and it found that you would be protected now individuals of those claiming to use the provisions have to satisfy public interest first make it very difficult for people to advise them the government archy's that the changes are aimed at closing a loophole this meant that employees with personal grievances a for employment contract have been able to use the whistle blame provisions but the sun this will be seen as just the latest measure making it harder out the truth. of course is this trend. is one. crackdown and whistle blowing blowing the whistle have to differing degrees how their lies changed their reputations threatened or ruined their freedoms removed but in the process they've revealed secrets that the rich and the powerful never wanted us to know that was being told

i was doing the wrong thing. and yet it felt so right for me and i knew that i was doing the right thing their battle highlights the importance of protecting whistle blower and the public's right to know something they all say was well worth fighting for sarah. lunde. now the world's most famous whistleblower julian the sun is awaiting the u.k. supreme court decision after he asked it to reopen the case on his extradition to sweden and so after losing his last appeal there a fortnight ago is that it's a challenging the legality of that routing what's said to be an unusual move. foundries wanted in sweden of a sex crime or a geisha it's his supporters it's a cover towards handing him over to the u.s. but a sign just plight isn't keeping him from tackling the world's big issues and his latest show airing here on r t v takes on the news of plundering online privacy.

but the fundamental things are so for punks written recognizes that the architecture actually defines the political situation so we 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. effectively even if the people have the best of intentions it doesn't matter i mean there are third 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 so you can. yeah it's sort of like lawful murder you've heard of a lot of the auto rights on american citizens by u.s. president obama you know when he killed on the sixteen year old son in yemen that's not 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 all 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. with less than a week before key talks on iran the beginning muskat russia's foreign minister has headed to tehran so you know rove's visit is aimed at making a breakthrough on the goshi ations about the islamic states nuclear plants reza marashi who's the research director at the national iranian american council believes that have rove's that meeting could prove fundamental to the success of the talks. more diplomacy is almost always a good thing and when the permanent members of the security council the united nations security council plus germany sit down at the negotiating table with iran if there's no prep work that's done in advance of those negotiations then it essentially becomes a process that's tantamount to having a kitchen full of cooks and nobody has a spoon so laying the groundwork and taking care of some of the technical political

aspects in advance increases the likelihood for already difficult diplomatic process to be more successful than it would be otherwise while the united states is spearheading a western effort to embargo if not outright reduce iranian oil exports and imports there are a host of other conflicts going on in the region there is economic instability in europe but there is also to ensure that countries like saudi arabia who have swing capacity when it comes to producing energy increase their output and maximizing the output that's been increasing in libya places like iraq and things like that getting countries off aronian oil oftentimes requires them to have a different refining process for different oil than iran's oil so it's a longer term process that they've been working on for a while now and we really are in uncharted waters so it certainly is the role of the dice that could come back to backfire particularly in an election year if the obama administration doesn't play its cards carefully. when they. talk to strategic

analyst here he says any israeli strike on iran would cost the state it's made the u.s. . a few in the united states that is what we are going to do that in the israeli attack. draw the united states into that war. probably prematurely. it would force the united states to get into war because an iranian counterattack would almost undoubtedly be targeted against the united states against israel. so it would be drawn this route because i think such an action without an american consent would cause a great damage to israeli. relations. with the united states

for an extended period of time. they fought for their country and now they're fighting their conscience decorated u.s. war veterans are joining an increasingly angry public and what they see is america's constant cycle of war even ditching their own as a valid case and i see it as the story. true patriots they follow the order to fight their country's battles scott olsen survived two tours in iraq only to be critically injured upon returning home by police clashing with occupy oakland protesters also had joined the military to do good work to help other people to be part of something bigger than ourselves. but instead he and many others discovered an ugly truth about the military escapades they were involved in may remain gay for years to the u.s.

army and spent five years in kuwait as a contractor his experiences changed his perception of the u.s. there are gray in the violence there stop in the peace and there are people from their culture from their communities. this group of veterans says the system they were part of is one that throws away billions of dollars and less wars yet pinches every extra penny when it comes to those fighting that come home one in three of them will be homeless veteran suicides every single day every thirty six hours an active duty soldier kills himself. u.s. veterans are increasingly taking to the streets to challenge what they believe to be false pretense worthless. agree with this illegal occupation that's being held in afghanistan pakistan iraq and other foreign countries because this war based on terrorism is a big it's a war. other motives for money and political power agendas. in chicago

dozens of veterans march the streets. and dump their war medals. by simply throwing them out in rejection of what those medals signify this is where we are disobedient. basically this is due to. the military and the wars were not what they were told they would be. in these protests the veterans were joined by thousands of other americans also outraged with us wars the american people are angry they're frustrated and they don't know which way to turn anymore with presidential elections around the corner these veterans see real change can only come from the bottom up i didn't expect any changes in two thousand and eight when obama got elected and i surely don't expect any changes now those wants taking commands to fight on foreign soil now taking command of the battle for peace at home. chicago illinois.

the us military has admitted that major mistakes were made during its wars in iraq and afghanistan a pentagon report points to training and policy flaws saying that strategic leadership repeatedly failed to learn freeman from executive intelligence review magazine says the missions were never clearly defined. missions in afghanistan and iraq did not have a mission they were military deployment. there destroyed a portion of the new terry weekend us power in a situation really. similar to what we were in the vietnam war although we haven't lost the war because there is no mission to actually carry out any power of seeing in iraq or afghanistan and military right now is fighting back and defending itself the united states if it goes into a country to carry out we change which we carried out in iraq and we carried out in afghanistan then the military is stuck in

a horrible position because we're not trained for this the point is that the president i'd stay up first president bush and then in afghanistan president obama did not to find a clear mission for the new terror and did not find a clear american policy mission for the development of these countries and therefore the military were from the very beginning thrown in to make up for this vacuum and that's the problem that we have today. for the well as it may news for you now yemeni officials say they're now in control of two major cities in the south that have been seized by kind. of this key minutes and strongholds for more than again and that you operation is seen as a major success for yemen's new president who's intensified in a crackdown since taking office and for every mission that was often move a vast part of the south still controlled out of it since. more present

strife in egypt just days before its presidential runoff second the parties are boycotting the part of and tossed with a draft in the country's new constitution. is a mist forces of attempting to dominate one branches of egypt's government. the presence on parliament and determine the role of islamic north and to station. spain's borrowing costs have gone to the highest since joining the euro majority of misery continues piling up of the ratings agency fitch downgrading eighteen spanish banks the country has had to tap into a hundred billion euros my financial backup fund to help shore up its banks which have been siding with the problem or that it was supposed to boast faith in the right but it's cool risk consultant john holzman says it's getting increasingly tough point to titian's to convince investors the point is that of course the germans are going to part with their money without conditions mrs merkel has a very tough political scene or sell and if she were said to just give the spanish

hundred million euro the people in germany would think she'd lost her mind so they're going to be conditions of course the trade is going to look over spanish banks of course it'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 this is miracle needs that conditionality the spanish government can't hope to survive if there is that conditionality they've lost control of the story in the beginning to believe this nonsense the crisis is. he supports a goal 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 set to 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 story. well now that katie on the this is this true this is mark hi katie so

russia investors will return to the trading floors here in moscow to welcome expecting yeah exactly will they can expect prices kerry because when they closed up all of this today we had high oil prices and that's why we were seeing gains in the russian markets is said to be an interesting day having said that the asian markets are beaten off in the boston market take their lead from there and that's following gains in the u.s. now we do expect the global markets to a made vulnerable and that is because of the euro zone's debt was the spanish yields hit record highs of worries over the bag so i know you mentioned it yourself carrie so who have a look at the u.s. markets are just about how they finished up yesterday i just want to talk about asia if i may will start there because. this morning they're open for business and a couple of the stocks of caught my eye was canada the camera company the one percent in tokyo that's off the credit suisse cut its price target for the hong

kong received clothing company is. twenty percent and that's after the first announced of the resignation of is a c o r it's about how wall street closed up yes they as you can see they did indeed rally and that was because the speculation that central bankers will intervene to stimulate the global economy one of the stocks that caught my eye was by way of the u.s. debt maker of course has rocketed three point five percent a lot softer a rating upgrade all right so let's have a look at the russian markets will be able to see how they closed up as i say on a saturday but right now it's looking to be a different day because we do have oil prices now dropping and that has a knock on effect but if we talk about assassin the situation then we have the stocks rallying for the first time since the. it was a good day for a much indeed for more so less than two hours now until the bell here in moscow all

right so we'll see the exchange rates and if we may we see how the rouble hold it was a mixed performance for the russian currency and as you can see the gear is still declining against the u.s. dollar that has investors really head for the safe haven the greenback want twenty four eighty seven just back on the oil prices they did mention the opec meeting tomorrow they're set to actually keep their rate. not expected to change there. also have to figure come out as well u.s. crude stockpiles rose one point six million barrels last week so as you can see that also contributes to dropping boil prices ok carries us markets up to now back in about fifteen minutes with the latest update ok thanks starkey. well now on the way a warning of what could happen if the feud between iran and israel ignites that's off the headlines short.

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