posed 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 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 u.n. 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 and 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 has now been deemed a civil war and meanwhile u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is alleging that a new shipment of attack helicopters will route from russia to syria but refused to reveal his sources the pentagon was subsequently put in a position between its new knowledge of any such event to those who claim that kofi annan those putting together an international team to ease the syrian out of true

coups rusher in the list even though it's opposed to the idea of foreign sponsored regime change it's one of these developments many analysts are convinced and six point peace plan remains whose 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 harbin massacres children have been targeted and innocent civilians and i think however it's not too late i mean i am afraid that perhaps the statement given by the united nations may may be. a 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. but they're coming out a decorated a us a veterans counting the true cost of battle throwing away their medals they are fighting their countries was bitterly why. it's raining get squeezed by record high borrowing rates for investors fail to be convinced by the help offered to prop up its ailing banks. 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 it was sort which had been point for it was there. the real trouble started really a couple of hours before kickoff for russia had planned march from the city center to the stadium in warsaw which is what you kilometers outside of the city center

march was obviously the go ahead by the local authorities but unfortunately the trouble started when russian fans starts to reach the stadium as a bridge just a few hundred meters away from a stadium. polish fans really tried to attack the russian fans are not 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 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 the polish supporters saying things which could provoke a situation the russian fans were very wild reserve they didn't respond to these provocations but unfortunately i'm sure it's bound to happen. for more on what's happening at euro twenty twelve both on and off the pitch head for r.t. 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. also 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. 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 of corporate wrongdoing so first looks at 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 lot of power behind them is

a 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 divide between governments and ordinary people and the governments urias 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 with 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 because literally when i started getting desperate synonymously there were occasions where i was almost inclined to consider exiting 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 model we're still playing techniques have been giving people more power to take on big corporations and even governments but 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. 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 advance that you would be protected now individuals will have those claiming to use the provisions will have to satisfy public interest to us and 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 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. a crackdown in 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've revealed secrets that the rich and the powerful never wanted us to know i 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 so 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 for his extradition to. sweden myself to do sing his last ditch appeal there a fortnight ago his lawyers are challenging the legality of that routine and once set to be an unusual move the critiques founder is wanted in sweden of a sex crime out again but its supporters fear it's a cover towards handing him over to the u.s. but it isn't just parties 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 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 that effectively even if the people have the best of intentions it doesn't matter i mean the architecture 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 use them. yeah absolutely that's what a lawful murder you've heard about a lot of the water the rights on american citizens by the u.s. president obama you know when he killed on laura locky sixteen year old son in yemen that's it lawful murder or targeted killing as they put it rights or so-called lawful intercept 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 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 terrence disputed nuclear activities russia's foreign minister is there ahead of the key negotiations 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. there a countdown to a potential strike against iran continues the united states and israel still

considering it is not well they're to this hour a strategic analyst here warns that if israel strikes in haste it could lose america as its key ally. there is a fury in the united states that that is what we are going to do that an israeli attack. draw the united states into that war prematurely it would force the united states to get into a war because in the reunion contour attack would almost undoubtedly be targeted against. against israel so you know that would be drawn platen action without an american consent would cause the great damage to israel the thirty degrees with the united states for an extended period of time.

they fought for their country and they're fighting their consciences decorated us all veterans are joining an increasingly angry public of what they see as america's constant cycle of war even ditch narrowness of valor autism society has a story. dubbed true petri as they followed 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. rid of. but instead he and many others discovered an ugly truth about the military escapades there were involved damn good me 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 is stop in the peace and there are people from

their culture or from their communities and killing 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 when veterans come home one in three of them will be homeless we have eighteen 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 being held in afghanistan pakistan iraq and other foreign countries because there's no 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.

by simply throwing them out in rejection of what those medals signify this is where we have to be to. really get it. basically this is to get them into the military other words were not when they were told they would be. in these protests the veterans were joined by thousands of other americans also outraged with 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 say 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 strategically the

ship 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 vietnam war although we haven't lost the war because there is no mission to actually carry out any policy in iraq or afghanistan and nor do 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 is 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 define a clear mission for the military and did not to define 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 and four bombs hit shia worshippers across baghdad they marked a religious anniversary in a southern city tween last 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 city of. that is that mr website has posted a video of his second in command who's killing by a drone in pakistan was confirmed by u.s. officials a week ago here. to be calling on insurgents outside syria to

fight against president assad it's not clear whether it confirms the. tera chief is tonight for the u.s. described his killing as a serious blow to a group in which he played a key role in attracting you know creates. spain's borrowing costs soared to the highest since joining the euro but to its mystery continues piling up the ratings agency fitch downgrading eighteen spanish banks the country has had to tap into one hundred billion euros from a 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

corpse are 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 in the beginning to believe this nonsense the crisis has followed a pattern they're going for any bailouts for greece portugal ireland no strain and what's happened is that after every bailout the amount of time it takes the markets to read the fine print and 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 the from the end of the story. but it's now joined on the business desk 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 fun day of cold in their absence we have the bank balance of one hundred twenty states. billion dollars. we're really trying to take all that information as well as we can all to you to contend with if we look at the figures will be able to see that it's a mixed open for the russian markets here in moscow as you can see what we all see as their 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 royal ways and this is part of sizing actually russia are always is considering building a road in the united arab. the company has taken part in it 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 so often 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 u.s. dollar losing out to the euro the euro dollar the trade is favorite as one twenty four ninety six for this hour so it's still dropping with all the can. stand 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 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 the nikkei which is that she recently just closed their shares rose six tenths of a percent and that's after machinery orders topped as soon as one of the sources

then talk about was the sparrows plummeting twenty percent that's because they announced that the c.e.o. has resigned. that was one of the biggest losers in the asian market session today if you look at wall street we see that they closed up high again today thanks to you are expecting some stimulus coming from the federal reserve in order to boost the economy amid all of the euro. sovereign debt crisis issues that's 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 now is that one point two percent in the positive territory and if we move on we'll take a look at the oil prices then if you max as you can see they are days still declining 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 analysts is saying is that they're going to agree to disagree and not move them up to two also wanted to mention that u.s. stockpiles they're reaching those all time highs again one point six million barrels goodness ok let's talk about the world bank thank you very recently released some comments they've warned the developing nations should brace themselves for weak growth tougher times the banks later school class says the developing economies will grow five point three percent this year almost one percent less than in twenty eleven policymakers to take measures to show that they can sustain growth escalation of the debt crisis in the eurozone. all right carrie so next hour how those breakdown figures for the. casey well football fans across europe are gearing up for today's big twenty twelve encounter between

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to otty that such are the headlines now syria in civil war but bleak assessment as resurgent rebels take the fight to our side the frantic efforts underway to salvage kofi annan peace prize. polish football fans hospitality attacking russian supporters ahead of the euro twenty twelve match nearly one hundred thirty poles arrested. a crackdown on whistle blows the u.k. miles legislation which could make it harder and riskier for people to expose it all over it because. despite all eyes being focused on syria another war may be on the cards in the region as the israeli iranian standoff continues to simmer when next we hear while in a war that conflict could be catastrophic. with

me i have to accept here 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 r.t. overcome when we 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 you when i don't think that. force is large enough or strong enough to actually destroy the iranian nuclear weapon project it 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 quirky.