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 a 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 ceasefire in syria if there is no ceasefire what is there left for observers to be monitoring and that is something that the u.n. peacekeeping chief mr lots you 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. council members it 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 is now been deemed a civil war. although the crisis has reached a new level political analyst among the shabby but these kofi annan has plans to remain serious and. i think the situation. very dangerous proportions and there are civilians that are being.

but there were some pictures of a horrible massacre as children have been targeted and innocent civilians and i think however it's not too late to i mean i am 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 and 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 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 provide its failing banks. nearly one hundred thirty polish football hooligans have been arrested after attacking russian supporters taking part in a sanctioned march of the twenty twelve match it was sort. for it was their. the real trouble started really a couple of hours before kickoff or russia had planned march from the city center to the stadium in warsaw which is about two kilometers outside of the city center march was obviously given a 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 fans 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 to where i'm speaking now and you could hear some supporters. saying things which could provoke the situation the russian fans were very well reserved didn't respond to these provocations but. i'm sure is 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 planets in the russian squad a small section has four profiles of the stars newcomers national team. also online flash to follow 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 creating through parliament which if it comes into force might discourage people from speaking out against serious violations and corporate wrongdoing so refer the possible risks for those who want to do the right thing it's a war of attrition good one to some who has nothing against people that have a lot of wealth and a lot of power behind it is a battle against corruption. secrets 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. exposing wrongdoing can preview 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 were stealing money from shareholders and sending it to offshore accounts and she blew the whistle it was adept at point at my whole life fell apart. lost my career it was. 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 as in a lengthy legal wrangling and it would be more than a decade the full days who committed the crime went to jail model where still playing techniques have been giving people more power to take on big corporations

and even governments now 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 whistleblowing 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 in

environments that you would be protected now individuals who 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 son 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 the lies changed their reputations threatened over the end their freedoms remain 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 whistleblowers and

the public's right to know something they all say was well worth fighting for sarah . lunde. the world's most famous whistleblower julian the son 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 ditch appeal that a fortnight ago is known as 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 son just plight isn't keeping him from tackling the world's big issues and his latest show airing here on r t takes on plundering online privacy. but the fundamental things are so for punks written recognizes that the architecture actually defies the political situation so if 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

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 a lawful murder you've heard about a lot of the 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. that is the same thing you just put lawful as part 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 it 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.

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 can she 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 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 and 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 and that is what we are going to do that in the israeli

attack mode. draw the united states into that war. probably prematurely. it would force the united states to get into a war because of the rainy and counterattack would almost undoubtedly be targeted against the united states as well as against israel. so the united states would be drawn this route because i think such an action without an american consent would cause a great damage to israeli. relations strategic 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 of what they see as america's constant cycle of war ditching their valor 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 with make 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. create in the violence there stop in the peace and there are people from their culture from their communities people in drone attacks. this group of veterans says

the system they were part of is one that throws away billions of dollars and less wars pinches every extra penny when it comes to those fighting them 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 was their own. with there's a legal occupation that's being held in afghanistan pakistan iraq and other foreign countries because it's now a war base of terrorism is a base it's a war based other motives for money and political power agendas. in chicago dozens of veterans march the streets like these anymore and dump their war medals. by simply throwing them out in rejection of what those medals signify this is where

we are disobedient. and really get. basically this ystem to. join the military and what is more not when 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. r.t. chicago. 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 when the freeman from executive intelligence review

magazine says that missions were clearly defined. the missions in afghanistan and iraq did not have a mission they were military deployment. there destroyed a portion of the no terry weakened 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 three in iraq or afghanistan and move to the right now is fighting back and defending itself the united states if it goes into a country to carry out regime change which we carried out in iraq and we carried out in afghanistan then the military stuck in a horrible position because they'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 appear to 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 had been seized by kind. of this key militant stronghold for more than a year and that your permission 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 far from out of a vast part of the south still controlled by minutes since. more pace of strife in egypt just days before its presidential runoff second the parties are boycotting the province tossed with a draft in the country's new constitution. is in the forces of attempting to dominate one branches of egypt's government. presence on parliament's powers

determine the role of norton at the station. spain's borrowing costs have gone to the highest since joining the euro richards and misery continues piling up with ratings agency fitch downgrading eighteen spanish banks the country has had to tap into one hundred billion euros with financial backup fund to help shore up its banks which have been siding with amount in property. that was supposed to boast faith in the red 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 or 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 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 this is miracle needs that conditionality the spanish government can hope to survive if there is that conditionality they've lost control of the story they're beginning to believe this nonsense the crisis is follow the pattern they're going for any bailouts. and is that after every day well the amount of trying to text americans to read the fine print realize that indeed this is nonsense it is a smaller and smaller and smaller share going from two months to two weeks to today and in the nearly two hours for things to try to ruin this is very different from the story. now that katie on the this is this crew this is market news hi katie so russian 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 stuff 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 their. gains in the u.s. now we do expect the global markets to remain vulnerable and that is because of the debt of the spanish yields hit record highs. over the bag so i know you mentioned it yourself carrie so we'll have a look at the u.s. markets 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 the camera company fell one percent in take a that softer credit suisse cut its price targets for the hong kong received clothing company promises twenty percent and that's after the for the resignation. oh 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 of course was the u.s. debt maker of course has rocketed three point five percent in the us after a raid. up. 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 february so it was a good day for much indeed for most less than two hours now until we are here in moscow all right so we'll see the exchange rates and if we may we see how the ruble hold it was a mixed performance for the russian currency and as you can see the gear is still declining against the us dollar that has investors really head for the safe haven

the greenback one twenty four eighty seven just that on the oil prices they did mention the opec meeting tomorrow they're set to actually keep their rate. not expected to change their quote you also had a 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 carey's that's the market's up for now back in about fifteen minutes with the latest up ok thanks starkers. well now on the way a warning of what could happen if the feud between iran and israel ignites the headlines.

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this is r t the headlines now. polish football fans show no hospitality attacking russian supporters ahead of a euro twenty twelve match with one hundred thirty poles arrested. crackdown on whistleblowers u.k. miles legislation which could make it harder and riskier for people to expose no breakers. the syrian civil war could break u.n. assessment as resurgent rebels take the fight to frantic efforts underway to salvage kofi annan peace plan. for the spy it all eyes being focused on syria another war may be on the cards in the region as the israeli rainy and the standoff continues to simmer when next we hear why an all out conflict because a strike. with

me i have to accept the director of the military balance project at the institute for national security studies here in tel aviv thank you very much for joining us here in our to your work and when you sat down together a couple of weeks ago you said it was not in israel's interest to launch a military strike on iran why do you think israel should not strike a when i don't think the. force is large enough or strong enough to actually destroy the iranian. nuclear weapon project might cause some damage but it would not. destroy it so it would not achieve anything do you think that the u.s. would consider copulating with israel in such a strike but quietly it's first of all those no quietly in this issue because things would tend to.