there's a report on r g. syria in civil war the big un assessment as resurgent rebels take advice to us the frantic efforts underway to salvage kofi annan peace plan. polish football fans show no hospitality attacking russian supporters ahead of a euro twenty twelve match nearly one hundred thirty poles arrested. last crackdown on the whistleblowers the u.k. miles legislation which could make it harder and riskier for people to expose lawbreakers. in business traders here in moscow turning to their desks with optimism that after the holidays despite wake up oil prices as the russian markets continue to gain join me in twenty minutes time i have to think is that the date out of.

international news and comment twenty four hours a day your watching r.t. . syria has plunged into a full scale civil war 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reached a previously unseen ferocity as government forces seek to blunt a nationwide offensive by the rebels who had withdrawn from the internationally backed cease fire but has more now on developments at the u.n. . the u.n. peacekeeping chief two 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 in 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 with the u.s. pretty much leaving it trying to get russia and china to agree on international sanctions against president bashar al assad to 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 you and 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 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 but 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 if used to reveal her sources the pentagon was subsequently put in an awkward position letting it had no knowledge of any such event clinton also claim that kofi annan is putting together an international team to use the syrian. includes russia in the list even though it's opposed to any idea of foreign sponsored regime change these developments many analysts are convinced that six point peace plan remains syria's only hope i think the situation. very dangerous proportions and there are civilians that are being killed and today we had some. there were some pictures of harder but massacres children have been targeting 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 in the past by kofi annan implemented to have a cease fire and go for the political dialogue there's 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. if it would not lead to any progress in this situation it would only make the situation worse we're coming up a decorated the us veterans are counting the true cost of battle throwing away the medals they and fighting their country's wars we tell you why. the strain it gets squeezed by record high borrowing rates after investors failed to be convinced by

the help offered to prop up its aging banks. nearly one hundred thirty polish football hooligans have been arrested after attacking russian supporters who were on a march there marking russia day ahead of their team's you're twenty twelve encounter in warsaw violence flared after the match as well leaving at least ten people injured ortiz it which was their. the real trouble started really a couple of hours before kickoff or 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 trying 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 and you can easily tell a football supporter from someone who's looking for trouble and there were

a number of casualties red records for 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 where i'm speaking now and you could hear some 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 well for more of what's happening i think you are twenty twelve both on and off the pitch you could head for r.t. dot com you can be two or twenty three players in the russian squad a small section has four profiles of stars and newcomers in national team. also online today web freedom activists take their struggle against the stop online piracy act whole new level with their own distinctive digital bill of rights.

britain is considering pulling the plug on whistleblowers circulating through parliament which if it comes into force but 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 wealth and lot of power behind them the battle against corruption. lies secrecy 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 in the government urias exposing wrongdoing can preserve 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 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 wendy 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 modern whistleblowing 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 are being. because by this the enterprise and regulatory reform bill which is currently making its way through parliament and one small discreet 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 if you could be sure in advance that you would be protected now individuals will those claiming to use the provisions will have to satisfy public interest first 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 whistleblowing provisions but the son this will be seen as just the latest measure making it harder out the truth. of course is this trend. which is a very serious one crackdown and whistle blowing this is 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 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 surf r.t. london well the world's most famous was supposed. to u.k.

supreme court decision that he asked to reopen the case on his extradition to sweep . so after losing his last ditch appeal their fortnight to get his lawyers are challenging the legality of that everything he wants said usually if you look at the expounder is wanted in sweden they have a sex crime on a geisha and he supports us here it's a cover towards handing him over to the us but saunders plight isn't keeping him from tackling the world's big issues and his latest show aaron hair or not he takes on those plundering 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 dark there 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 sort of like lawful

murder you've heard of a lot of lot of rights on american citizens by the u.s. president obama you know when he killed on lorillard he's sixteen year old son in yemen that's it lawful murder or targeted killing as they put it right so 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. or washington is accusing iran of seeking global domination claiming that the threat it poses is real right now preparations are underway for another round of international talks of a terrence disputed nuclear activities russia's foreign minister is there ahead of the key negotiations in moscow something that many iranian expert 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 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 a roll the dice that could come back to backfire particularly in an election year if the obama administration doesn't play its cards carefully. the countdown to a potential strike against iran continues with the united states and israel still considering it is not sure where next hour a strategic analyst. ones that if israel strikes in haste it could lose america as its. future in the united states that is what we are going to do the attack mode. draw the united states into that war prematurely it would force the united states tool to get into

a war because an iranian counterattack would almost undoubtedly be targeted against the united states or the us against israel so the united states would be drawn to such an action without an american consent would cause a great damage to israeli strategic relations with the united states for an extended period of time. they fought for their country and now they're fighting their consciences decorated u.s. war veterans and joining any recently angry public for what they see as america's constant cycle of war dictionary one as a valid reason to see a chicken as the story. true patriots they follow the order to fight their country's battles scott olsen survived two tours in iraq what you do 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 and to defend our country but instead he and many others discovered an ugly truth about the military escapades they were involved in m i was with me 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 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 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 this 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 boil in chicago dozens of veterans march the streets like these anymore and dump their war medals and. by simply throwing them out in rejection of what those medals signify this is where we are this is. basically this is doing. what they were told they were doing. 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 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 a whole. 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 but once freeman from executive intelligence review magazine says the missions were never 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 their weakened us we're in a situation really. similar to where we were in the vietnam war we haven't lost

a war because there is no mission to actually carry out any power see 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 they're not trained for this the point is that the president right states first president bush and then in afghanistan president obama did not define a clear mission for the military and did not appear to find it clear american powell see 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. well more of the world's manes news and now there's been a spate of a deadly bombings targeting shiite pilgrims and police in iraq eighteen people died

when four bombs hit shia worshippers across baghdad as they marked or just anniversary in the southern city of hillah twin blasts outside a restaurant frequented by police killed twenty two people and wounded many others two more car bombs left four people dead in the mainly shiite city. is the most web site has posted a video of a second in command his killing by nato drone in pakistan was confirmed by u.s. officials we can it shows. be calling on insurgents outside syria to fight against president assad it's not clear whether that video confirms that the terror chief live us described his killing as a serious blow to a group which he played a key role in attracting young recruits. spain's borrowing costs have sought to the highest since joining the euro but misery continues piling up with a ratings agency fitch downgrading eighteen spanish banks countries have to tap

into one hundred billion euros my financial backup fund to help shore up its banks which have been saddled with a mountain of bad property loans then it was supposed to boast a faith in the euro but 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 pair 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 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. earlier. than is that after every day well the amount of trim it takes to merge to

read the following through realize that indeed this is nonsense it is a smaller and smaller and smaller shoot going from two months to two weeks to do and the nearly two hours for things to try to ruin this is story the image for me from the story. that's not joined on the business card katie what's happening in the markets carrie well right now i'm going to focus on the european markets because they're now in the first half an hour of trade actually we can see gains actually from both of the that says optimism today and that is ahead of the tally in bond auction happening l.h.o. we know that the spanish bond yields are out ultimate's high so that's a concern as well as that of course about the greek election coming up on sunday the seventy's over us is looking towards that we've got two tenths of a percent up for the day of the dow's it's around four tenths of the cent early days but we watching the markets throughout the day let's see how your dollar is we're following that because it's now gone above that one twenty five foot hold

just as you can see ever so slightly gaining at this hour as opposed to losing before as we got a very close well it's now the opposite way round so it's now gaining a losing out to the u.s. dollar at this others have a look at the boston market is there now in their second hour of trade for those optimism here in moscow as traders return from their three day holiday including the sunday as you can see that is days after the r.t.s. one point one of the half percent of the my one point the tenth of a percent in positive territory just that and that's despite oil prices dropping it this i k let's move on to see how the stocks are performing on those planted again it is on the my sixth as you can see spare bank nine tenths of a cent just so got marked meat as well two point three percent up in positive territory its revenues. by almost a third last month frank of mosco that down overhaul five percent in negative territory just reading now that they had

a much better year in two thousand and eleven the net profit was seven hundred fifty five million dollars now compare that with the two thousand and ten before but where they have net losses of two billion dollars so despite that they are indeed in bread territory at this hour we're going to go out russian ways now this is an exciting one they are considering building a road in the united arab emirates now the company has taken part of the tender to link the country's top to abu dhabi with the business how deep by now the winner of the two put into the project will have to construct a five hundred ten kilometer long way with the entire infrastructure by twenty sixty i will see how the asian markets before the end of the trading session the nikkei is now closed and they were optimistic with six tenths of a percent on the high saying that four tenths of cent up opposed to territory although some good news from japan with machinery orders increasing and that sort of demonstration their resilience really to the european sovereign debt crisis

right now also wanted to mention high t.j. as well because they get about a third of the cells from industrial production climbed two point four percent in today's trading session i can't get into oil because all eyes are on all this week and that's because tomorrow we've got the meeting and they're set to decide their quota for the rest of the year now it is believed that it's going to be on change but if there is going to be a change then it's going to be on the up side and that's because the minister of. the us is saying that he wants it to increase ok as you can see they are indeed mixed ever society that's falling off of those allies so as i say we have got that meeting tomorrow is expected to stay on chinese we're going to be watching this situation and saudi arabia minister as i say does want to. you want to watch all right let's talk about some comments that have recently come out from the world by our ways now by for the developing nations should brace themselves for growth and

tougher times the banks latest forecasts says the developing countries will grow five point three percent this year almost one percent less in twenty eleven our policymakers to take measures to show that they can sustain growth and made escalation of the debt crisis in the eurozone. like paris. we've also got some news coming from the world bank with russia's g.d.p. growth forecast for three point nine percent this year so they're fairing better as i say i will have more details more news for you in about fifty minutes time carries i'll be monitoring the new chips in moscow i. take a different. well during the songes probing talk show is up next right after the headlines here are today.

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