dot com. syria in civil war the bleak u.n. assessment as resurgent rebels take the fight to us but frantic efforts underway to salvage kofi annan peace plan. polish football fan shown their hospitality attacking russian supporters ahead of it you know twenty twelve match with around one hundred fifty poles arrested. but crackdown on whistleblowers the u.k. molls legislation which could make it harder and riskier for people to expose lubricants.

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reached a previously unseen ferocity as government forces seek to blunt a nationwide offensive by the rebels who had it withdrawn from the internationally backed cease fire when a portnoy has more developments at the u.n. .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

pretty much leading it trying to get russia and china to agree on international sanctions against president bashar al assad to this point and 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 idea that there would be a ceasefire in syria if there is no ceasefire what is there left for observers to be monitoring next month this ninety day mandate for this mission the u.n.

syrian mission expires and council members may not be willing to renew this mandate if they feel that the u.n. observers will be in danger if they are in syria which has now been deemed a civil war although the crisis has reached a new level but it's cool. 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 where 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 a. 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 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 carrying the true cost of battle throw away the medals fighting their countries well as we tell you why. spain get squeezed by record high borrowing rates after investors failed to be convinced by the help offered to prop up its ailing banks. two hundred fifty polish football hooligans and twenty four russians have been arrested after poles attacked a march that was marking russia day which organized ahead of their national team's

euro twenty twelve encounter there's also post match violence which sore at least ten people injured ortiz which had been portrayed was that. the real trouble started really a couple of hours before kickoff or russia had planned march from a city center service stadium in warsaw which is about two kilometers outside of the city center march was obviously given the go ahead by the local authorities but unfortunately 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'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 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 the reaction now from eric ostrowski who's the senior editor at poland's political magazine i thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. today but here violence we've seen from polish supporters how do you assess security at the championship in poland. well unfortunately the raise a truck records of hooliganism in the polish. regrets that's all the hole there was no big tragedy. many arrests. and finally nothing. like many many years ago. but the russian fans were allowed to march to mount russia's national day and it with hindsight was it a mistake to grant permission for that no it was not in our legal system people who

wish to go to this street are free to go there is no need for them to seek any permission we are only having three sides is the only thing to be fixed within city hall was. the best and the best way on the. streets to choose there was no big choice and the second thing the second point my second wind holes. you're against and consequently we are. we we welcome all our guests feel like oh. but in that case why do we see so much apparent anti russian sentiment which wasn't in evidence during poland's first match with greece. because unfortunately people here confuse empty rations sentiments with anti soviet sentiments and the soviet sentiments are. totally justified in my eyes and you russian

sentiments are not. good so. the sides in their web polish in the polish internet. use as sochi made money for. poland and the rest to do rash apologies for as they say. it's easier it's taking new for a foreign no reason though there are just people looking at the fine you have such people you have a society that's interesting because relations between russia and poland have certainly been a bit shaky in many areas a politically at least are you surprised that it spilled over into a sporting event like this. i am not in fact i'm not surprised. so much because obviously we have some history

grievances. the young generation had st louis was that. it was what makes me nervous if we position of the communist party in your state. paula giovanni's and of course we hate it and we are going to. be. ok we have to leave it there for now america. should say from poland politico magazine thank you for joining us here on r.t. thank you. well for more on what's happening at euro twenty twelve both on and off the pitch head for r.t. dot com you can meet all twenty three players in the russian squad sports section has pulled profiles of both the stars and newcomers international take. also r.t. dot com web freedom activist take their struggle against the stop online piracy at

a whole new level of their own distinctive digital bill of rights. now britain is considering pulling the plug on whistleblowers ability circulating through parliament there which if it comes into force might discourage people from speaking out against serious violations and corporate wrongdoing so if earth looks at the possible risks for those who want to do the right thing. it's a war of attrition could one person who has nothing against people that have a lot of wells a lot of power behind them the battle against. 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 in the government who furious 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 was stealing money from shareholders and sending it to offshore accounts and she blew the whistle it was a decade point that my whole life fell apart. lost my career it was just literally when i started getting death threats 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 wendy was in poor old in a lengthy legal wrangling and it would be more than a decade before those 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 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. a chilling effect on the ability of workers to speak up a member of the international whistleblowing research network and an employment lawyer david lewis tells us the proposed test has dropped a bomb on whistle blowing provisions the great virtue of the existing provisions is there's no public interest it was a very simple test as long as you had enormous motu if you could be sure and in

fact you would be protected now individuals who those claiming to use the provisions have to satisfy public interest first and make it very difficult for people to advise them the government argue 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 very serious one 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 reveal secrets that the rich and the powerful never wanted us to know that was being told i was doing the wrong thing. and 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 r.t. london. the world's most famous whistleblower during the songe is awaiting a u.k. supremes court decision r.t. asked to reopen the case on his extradition to sweden so after losing his last ditch appeal there a fortnight ago his lawyers are challenging the galatea about removing what's said to be an unusual move so we can leaks founder is wanted in sweden of a sex crime allegations but his supporters fear it's a cover towards handing him over to the u.s. just plight isn't keeping him from tackling the world's big issues in his later show airing here now t. he takes on those plundering online privacy. well 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 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 a lot of lawful murder you've heard about a lot of the a lot of the 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 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.

washington is again hitting out of iran accusing it of seeking dominance on the global stage of the nuclear weapons program when vons chief nuclear negotiator disputes the claims in an interview with ati he says that the country he pono world as it is now has no future. the world is changing people are no longer willing to accept a reality where a few select powers can dictate the course of the world that the balance of power is shifting into the hands of the people the fact that some nations seek to retain power through military means that is being rejected the world wants a new war a new model where all nations and peoples would respect each other and that is what we've always stood for democracy never comes from violence with the help of violence through military means or occupation and those that claim to use violence to further democracy in the end they always admit that they had all teary a motive. for using force is a method that some of the world's democracies continue to push for when it comes to

dealing with terror and that nuclear program both the u.s. and israel are still mulling the feasibility of a military strike against the state within the next middle east expert in the rather he explains why israel's threats are driving after toughening international sanctions on iran. i think that the israeli leadership is doing just to. capitalize on kind of a momentum with the sanctions first of all in the mind of many israelis the implementation of sanctions is kind of a byproduct of israeli pressure because israel actually threatened to militarily attack if this was for force the european union and the americans especially the americans to come up with a much better thing strict policy with regard to iran in order to appease israel this is how israel takes think.

the u.s. military has admitted that major mistakes were made during its wars in iraq and afghanistan in a report that showed noise in training and policy they also highlighted a lack of understanding of the realities faced by troops it seems the country's war veterans are joining an increasingly angry public of what they see as america's constant cycle of war some even ditching that is about it as a necessary expense. true patriots 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 part of something bigger than ourselves. but instead he and many others discovered an ugly truth about the military escapades they were involved in. 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 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 agree with this illegal occupation that's been held in afghanistan pakistan iraq and other foreign countries because this terrorism is a. other motives for money and political power agendas boil in

chicago dozens. veterans marched the streets. and dumped their war medals. by simply throwing them out in rejection of what those medals signify this is. disobedience. 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 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 a whole. r.t.

chicago illinois. where some of the international headlines for you now have been a series of apparently coordinated bombings across iraq killing at least fifty three people and injuring dozens of others for blasts targeted shiite pilgrims in the capital baghdad as they mark a religious anniversary of the bombs went off in several mainly shiite cities is the most insurgents and linked to al qaeda frequently try to stoke sectarian tensions by attacking shiite pilgrims. spain's borrowing costs have sought to their highest since joining the euro but misery continues piling up the ratings agency fitch downgrading eighteen spanish banks the country has had to tap into a hundred billion euros for a financial backup fund to help shore up its banks which have been saddled with them mountain of bad property loans the barrier that was supposed to bolster faith in the euro political risk consultant john holzman says it's getting increasingly tough politicians to convince investors. the point is that of course the germans

are going to purge with their money without conditions mrs merkel has a very tough political scene herself and if she were said to just give the spanish on hundred million euro the people in germany would think she'd lost her mind so of course 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't 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 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 realize that indeed this is nonsense it isn't also get smaller and smaller and smaller so we're going 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 for me from the end of the story but still economics it's

now time to join katy on the business desk and understand that cyprus is calling for russia's help to save the banks it is in the it comes off to me to cut the writings of some big banks that mainly depend on greece that's the poll it's some old details on that let's carry a list gets the us the markets here must go and see how that before may. all returning to that death or not off enjoying a two day holiday on the still remaining optimistic that's despite oil prices dropping in recent days as you can see with so the king gains of it on the i think the rather pathetic for the month yes of the mind thanks i've often found one point one percent out of territory they think the move is as safe as bad bank is still managing to gain the biggest lender here in moscow a one point eight percent mike me as well patience really positive think is revenue rising by almost all along the gulf bank of moscow as well it's down on top of the

thread on the us despite. two thousand and eleven net profit of seven hundred fifty five million dollars and that's compared with a two billion dollars loss in two thousand and ten so much much better. all right let's move on and talk about russian roadways our way now is considering building or our way in the united arab emirates the company has taken part in the tend to link the countries. with this is how the final the winner of the two billion dollar project will have to construct a five hundred ten kilometer long bell why with the intel. fine when they. are this have a look at the variables they have that's before me irish change ever so slightly why have a look at the figures right that as you can see there is gaining against the euro now and it's week against the us dollar. still managing to climb everest the supply is good at one twenty five twenty three and that brings me on to the european

markets which have had a change of fortune they were gaining a last stop as you can see they've dropped slightly into negative territory now ahead today we've got a tally and. so investors really holding on to the positions in anticipation of those to really see if those boring costs are going to ask you know carol you mentioned just the spanish ones which are indeed all time highs all right moving on that see those oil prices and they get investigate going on this one because it's more of the meeting with opec as well than it really affects the supply because they're going to be talking about their quotas for the second half of the yeah so we'll be watching that one for this hour but if they are indeed americans who got bread climbing episodically just all right then let's talk about the world bank now they want developing nations that they should be bracing themselves for growth and tougher times the banks latest school call says the developing economies will grow five point three percent this year almost one percent less in twenty eleven. honestly making to take measures to chill they can

sustain growth amid the escalation of the debt crisis right now the same time the bank has put up on the front line of the crisis. is improve the outlook for the country's economy expecting the g.d.p. to increase by almost four percent the shit the world bank expects to grow to be mostly supported by stronger production i'm sorry i was telling you about cyprus here we go the debt strike in cyprus is calling for another bit of help from russia yet it's me just as a country house requested a five billion euro credit to support its financial system now this comes off to moody's cut the writings of top cypriot banks that maybe depends on the troubled greek a quote of the last year russia provided the republic with two and a halt million year i learned which at the same time ten percent of cypriot g d pay . more than care of it back in fifteen minutes with another ok thanks for that k.c.

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