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. syria has plunged into a full scale civil war so says the head of the u.n. peacekeeping operation there he 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reached a previously unseen ferocity as government forces seek to blunt a nationwide offensive by the rebels who had withdrawn from the internationally back ceasefire reappoint nine has more developments at the u.n. . the a u.n. peacekeeping chief our a lot too who recently made those comments saying that the conflict in syria is now a civil war he is the first you want to fishel to have made that type of declaration following the fifteen months of violence taking place and escalating in syria and 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 a campaign ongoing for months now with 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 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 the ninety day mission of three hundred unarmed observers in syria was adopted under the the idea that there would be a ceasefire in syria if there is no ceasefire what is there left for the un 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 un syrian mission expires and some council members may not be willing to renew this mandate if they feel that the un observers will be in danger if they are in syria which is now been deemed a civil war when meanwhile u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is alleging that a new shipment of attack helicopters were on route from russia to syria but refused

to reveal her sources the pentagon was subsequently put in a position admitting it had no knowledge of any such event clinton also claimed that kofi annan is putting together an international team to ease the syrian the out of current issues rusher in the list even though it's opposed to any idea of foreign sponsored regime change despite these developments many analysts are convinced that an earned six point peace plan remains syria's only hope. i think the situation has reached very dangerous proportions and there are civilians that are being killed and today we had some. there were some pictures of horrible massacres 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 yet 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. but they're coming out the decorated u.s. veterans counting the true cost of battle throwing away their medals they are fighting their countries was bitterly why. it's brain get squeezed by a record high borrowing rates for investors fail to be convinced by the help offered to prop up its ailing banks. their one hundred thirty polish football hooligans have been arrested after attacking russian supporters taking part in a sanctioned march ahead of their twenty twelve match wausau lottie's which had

been point for it was their. the real trouble started really a couple of hours before kickoff for russia had planned march from a city center to the stadium in warsaw which is about two kilometers outside of the city center march was obviously give the go ahead by the local authorities but of course the the trouble started when russian fans started to reach the stadium as a bridge just 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 and 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 unfortunately. there was trouble brewing as i left the stadium is a very short walk from the stadium so where i'm speaking now and you could hear some supporters saying things which could provoke the situation the russian fans were very well reserve they didn't respond to these provocations but unfortunately

i'm sure it's bound to happen. but for more on what's happening out here at twenty twelve both on and off the pitch head karate dot com can be true twenty three players in the russian squad sports section has profiles of both the stars and newcomers in a national team. process at r.t. dot com web freedom activists take their struggle against the stop online piracy act to a whole new level with their own distinctive digital bill of rights. which . few. if. britain is considering pulling the plug on whistle blows a bill is circulating through parliament which comes into force might discourage people from speaking out against serious violations and corporate wrongdoing so

first looks at the possible risks for those who want to do the right thing it's a war of attrition a good one to some who has nothing against people that have a lot of wells a lot of power behind them the battle against corruption. this video named collateral murder is just one of many wiki leaks revelations exposing real crimes revolutionizing whistleblowing and tearing down the divides between governments and ordinary people and the government of urias exposing wrongdoing can previously 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 with 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 it was literally me i started getting death threats anonymously there were

occasions where i was almost inclined to consider exciting 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 before days who committed the crime went to jail more than 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 for the law could be set to take a big step back the problems are 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 motive you could be sure and it found that you would be protected now individuals will those claiming to use the provisions will have to satisfy public interest first and will make it very difficult for people to advise them the government argues 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 whistleblowing 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. whistle blowing blowing the

whistle have to differing degrees had their lives changed their reputations threatened or ruined their freedoms removed but in the process they reveal 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 what i was doing the watching 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 r.t. london. where the world's most famous sanj is a way to u.k. supreme court decision after he asked to reopen the case on his extradition to. sweden is often losing his last ditch appeal there a fortnight ago his lawyers are challenging the galaxy of that riveting whatsit to be an unusual move because the founder is wanted in sweden of a sex crime on a geisha but his supporters fear it's

a cover towards handing him over to the us but it's only just pieties and keeping him from tackling the world's biggest she's his latest show airing heroine ati takes on the news of them doing online privacy 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 effectively even if the people have the best of intentions it doesn't matter i mean the arc there sure is the truth it's true for the internet with regard to communications the so-called lawful intercept systems which are just a nice way of saying spying on people so you can use them. yeah absolutely that's what a lawful murder you've heard about a lot of the other underwrites 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 not lawful murder or targeted killing as they put it right so a 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 is 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. and washington is accusing iran of seeking global domination claiming that the threat it poses is real right now operations are on the way for another round of international talks over tehran's disputed nuclear activities russia's foreign minister is there ahead of the key negotiators and musket something many iranian expects sees a positive step. 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. her account there into a potential strike against iran continues the united states and israel still considering it is not well they to this strategic analyst here warns that if israel strikes in haste it could lose america as its key ally. fueling the united states that is what we are going to do that in the israeli attack. draw the united states into that war prematurely it would force the united states to get into a war because an iranian counterattack would almost undoubtedly be targeted against the state of israel so it would be drawn such an action without an american consent would cause the great damage to his

strategic relations with the united states for an extended period of time. they fought for their country and they're fighting their consciences decorated us over transit joining an increasingly angry public and what they see as america's constant cycle of war even narrowness of valor. a 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

there were involved damn. remained 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 in the piece and there are people from their culture from their communities people in drone attacks. this group a veteran says the system they were part of is one that throws away billions of dollars and this war's pinches every extra penny when it comes to those fighting them when veterans 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 wars and agree with this illegal occupation that's been held in afghanistan pakistan iraq and other foreign countries because it's now a war base of terrorism is a big it's a war. other motives for money and political power agendas boil in chicago

dozens of veterans march the streets. and dump their war medals and. by simply throwing them out in rejection of what those medals signify this is where we are in disobedience. again. basically this is to make them. in the military were not what they were told they would be. in these protests the veterans were joined by thousands of other americans also outraged with the u.s. 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 ones taking commands to fight on foreign soil now taking command of the battle for peace at home. r.t.

chicago illinois. well the u.s. military has admitted that major mistakes were made during its wars in iraq and afghanistan pentacle report points to training and policy flaws say strategic leadership repeatedly failed where once a freeman from executive intelligence review magazine says the mission's whenever a clearly defined. the missions in afghanistan and iraq did not have a mission they were a military deployment they have destroyed a portion of the know terry they are weakened us we're 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 see in iraq or afghanistan and nor do right now is fighting back in defending itself the united states if it goes into a country to carry out 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 find a clear mission for the no terry and did not find it 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 but some other international headlines now this hour there's been a spate of deadly bombings targeting shiite pilgrims and police in iraq eighteen people were killed when four bombs hit shia worshippers across that they marked a religious anniversary in a southern city of twin blasts outside a restaurant frequented by police killed twenty two people and wounded many others two more car bombs killed four people in the main the shiite city of. an

islamist web site has posted a video of this second in command who's killing by a nato drone in pakistan was confirmed by u.s. officials a week ago here. calling on insurgents outside syria to fight against president assad it's not clear whether it confirms the. tara cheney faced a knife the u.s. described as kidding as a serious blow to a group in which he played a key role in attracting young recruits. spain's borrowing costs soared to the highest since joining the euro but to its misery continuous piling up the 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 saddled with amount of bad property that the bailout was supposed to both the faith and the euro political risk consultant john holzman says

it's getting increasingly tough for politicians 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 one hundred million euro the people in germany would think she'd lost her mind so they're going to be conditions of course the trick 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 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 is followed a pattern they're going for any bailouts for greece portugal ireland and 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 also 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 story. but it's now joined on the business desk in the traders here in russia have returned to the desk today what awaits them that yeah well they have to digest a carrier that solved having three days off including sunday of coal in their absence we have the bank of a hundred twenty states. billion dollars. we're really trying to take all the information as well as we can all to you to contend with if we look at the opening figures will be able to see that it's a mixed open for the russian markets here in moscow as you can see the all c.s. drop playing around a tenth of a percent of the my sex up in positive territory four tenths of a percent so be keeping an eye out in the next hour we'll be watching at the biggest blue chips here in moscow one story that caught my eye was to do with the row why is this party sizing at today russia are always is considering building

a road in the united arab. the company has taken part in the tend to link the country's capital. with the business hub to buy now the winner of the two billion dollar projects will have to construct a five hundred ten kilometer long row away with the entire infrastructure by twenty six days. let's have a look at the ruble because that is now off and running as well and as you can see it's still a mixed performance against the basket of currencies so it's gaining against the us dollar losing out to the euro if you're a dollar the traders favorite is one twenty four ninety six for this hour so it's still dropping with all the can. sound of course you got the greek election on the seventeenth coming up services are holding out for that one if we look at the asian markets and our way now they're reasonably upbeat those domestic days are coming out today more stimulus is expected from the chinese government that is keeping

investors hopeful also that it carried which is that she recently just closed sell their shares rose six tenths of a percent and that's off the machinery orders topped as soon as one of the sources those talk about was asparagus promising twenty percent and that's because they announced that this has resigned. that was one of the biggest losers in the asian markets session today if we look at wall street we see that they closed up higher yesterday right here you are expecting some stimulus coming from the federal reserve in order to boost the economy amid all of the euro. sovereign debt crisis is going on at the moment so they're holding out for that as you can see the dow jones one point three percent up the nasdaq one point two percent in the positive territory but if we move onward take a look at the oil prices and if america as you can see they are days still declining now there's lots of news going on because tomorrow we've got opec meeting

now what they do is they decide on the production for the rest of the year the quota that they're going to put out we have had comments from the saudi arabia oil minister saying that he would like to see duction increase so if everything is expected to increase but what a lot of ours is saying is that they're going to agree to disagree and not move them up to the top also wanted to mention that u.s. stockpiles they're reaching those all time highs again one point six million barrels a my goodness may i call it talk about the world bank thank you very recently released some comments they've warned the developing nations should brace themselves for weak growth and tougher times by its latest forecast says the developing economies will grow five point three percent this year almost one percent less than that in twenty eleven policymakers to take measures to show that they can sustain growth escalation of the debt crisis in

a year i say. all right carrie so next hour how those breakdown figures for the future. ok thanks that casey well football fans across europe are gearing up for today's a big twenty twelve encounter between germany and holland sports looks ahead later this hour first though the headlines are next discovered.

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