polish football fans show no hospitality attacking russian supporters before and after the team's euro twenty twelve match with around one hundred fifty poles a restive. syrian civil war the police give an assessment is resurgent rebels take the fight to a sad with frantic efforts underway now to try to salvage kofi annan is peace plan . plus crackdown on whistleblowers we report that the u.k. mole's legislation which could make it harder and riskier for people to expose lawbreakers.

hello three pm here in moscow this is r t live from the capital with me kevin zero in on our top story poland's ambassador to russia said the polish football hooligans of the blame for tuesday's violence in warsaw more than one hundred fifty poles and twenty five russians have been arrested after scores of local fans launched a coordinated attack on a march to mark russia day ahead of the team's euro twenty twelve showdown in the evening live in what is a lecturer jet skis in warsaw to bring us up to date alexei hi there now the euro championships are heavily policed the russia day march was agreed in advance this must therefore of come as a shock i guess to the russian fans. sure it did but a lecture is here so you can hear me ok we'll try to get back to him in warsaw little bit later we'll be catching up with him then for some more comment from poland let's take a look at our next story now the show we before we go back to alexia serious

plunged into full scale civil war so says the head of the u.n. peacekeeping operation there he added that fighting a previously unseen ferocity as government forces seek to blunt a nationwide offensive by the rebels who withdrawn from the international ceasefire more developments than from artie's marine important. the 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 ask leading 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 a campaign ongoing for months now 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 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 that ninety day mission three hundred unarmed observers in syria was adopted under the idea that there would be a ceasefire in syria if there is no ceasefire what is there left for observers to be monitoring next month this ninety day mandate for this syrian 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 where at the school but no to our top story the trouble. with our correspondents across. the city was in poland just very much course a story another big football for the euro championships this is a question put to you didn't hear. police. march was agreed in advance this must come as a shock them for the russian. well certainly it's something of a shocking story in warsaw last night because this march was greeted with between the russian found movement and the polish on the warsaw authorities nevertheless want to stand for now one hundred fifty poles have been arrested for attacking the crowd of russian fans and twenty russians were also attacking for providing violent response to the polish attack anyway when to stand that those twenty odd russians

who have been arrested who've been detained in poland will be deported from the country according to the interior ministry and it a future they will have problems of training shan't get a visa because of all these because of participation in this in this in those riots in warsaw now certainly the relations between warsaw and moscow have been very strained have been difficult for many centuries now but for now when the stand that they have basically normalized and the events which happened in warsaw last night is something of a blast from the past certainly there are political forces in poland who are interested in inciting this hatred towards russia but certainly this is a minority of the polish population for now in fact we understand that many poles have been expressing their apologies to russia on the internet on the internet into on twitter and different forums and web sites for what they described to be brainless and mindless a bunch of foolish supporters who attacked the russian crowd now certainly we all

know that hooliganism is all about one again of supporters of one particular club or or a country that's taking another firm how is it called again of supporters but this time of the polish supporters attacked peaceful russian fans who were walking towards the stadium and there's been lots of pictures of that when people just walking with their flags in the uniforms and being attacked by. fans wearing polish scarves that polish t. shirts certainly things like that are putting serious scar on the reputation of poland and the reputation of this particular tournament with i've read lots of common. on the internet already all of them saying that basically it's busy been already a big mistake giving this tournament to poland and ukraine though in ukraine no major violence no violence at all in fact has happened over the past five days that the tournament has been going on alexia's are eastern europe correspondent for world's most was a football fan as well as importantly what do you think sparked this violence can

it be traced down to one a vent one problem or is there a lot of it going into the melting pot here. well it's really hard to say what actually sparked because the right now i understand the police is trying to find those who incited this this violence and they're trying to determine exactly cause that but we already know that the polish fans have been blamed for starting the initial attack on the russian fans which sparked a major violence though it's also understood that the media some of the media in poland have been have been doing everything they can to raise the hype of this game equating this game with the battle of the river in one thousand twenty when the polish forces of outnumbered by the soviet troops actually managed to be victorious over the bolshevik soldiers and. some of the polish media including the super express newspaper said that you could not go without poland and you have to remember one thousand twenty and you have to do everything even die if you need to

to win over russia so all this hype certainly added more fuel to the fire and given the fact that certainly the relations as i've said have been very hard especially given the poland's communist past and. general hatred in poland towards everything soviet definitely all this media hype certainly created a very good conditions for all this fight but certainly we are waiting for more statements from the country's interior ministry to which will reveal who actually started the fight and who is to blame for this attack. correspondent thanks ever so much for that appreciated marik ostrovsky who's the senior editor of poland's political magazine says the nation deeply regrets the events. unfortunately people here are calm sure and to russian sentiments where is and the soviet sentiments besides in the web the poet is she in the boat machine internet no use as she may money france though of poland and dressed who do russian

colleges for as they say brainless easier it's taking you for a foreign the reason though there are just people looking at the fight to obviously we have some history grievances. the young generation has nothing to lewis who was there was a more pleasant side of it for more of what's happening at euro two thousand and twelve both on and off the pitch head to our web site r.t. dot com their winter to shoot all twenty three players in the russian squad sport section scott for profiles of pros the stars and the newcomers in the national teams could rate them also at r.t. dot com as well web freedom activists take their struggle against the stop online piracy act they said previously when piracy to a whole new level with their own distinctive digital bill of rights that story interests you this play more background to that r.t. dot com. if you're while and upon my death you're going to the good.

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britain is considering pulling the plug out whistleblowers a bill circulating through parliament which if it comes into force might discourage people from speaking out against serious violations in corporate wrongdoing sarah firth looks of the possible risks though for those who want to do the right thing. the war on whistle blowing 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 collateral murder is just one of many wiki leaks revelations exposing the real crimes revolutionising whistle blowing 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 adept at the 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. interest test into the legislation will have a chilling effect on the ability of workers to speak up and member of the international whistleblowing research network and an employment lawyer david lewis tells us the proposed test has dropped a bomb on whistle blame provisions the great virtue of the existing provisions is this no public interest test 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 to make it very difficult for

people to advise them the government archy's that the changes are aimed at closing a loophole this meant that employees with personal grievances a for employment contract have been able to use the whistle blame provisions but the son this will be seen as just the latest measure making it harder out the truth. of course is this trend. which is a 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'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 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 so

r.t. . the world's most famous whistleblower julian assange is awaiting u.k. supreme court decision after our state to reopen the case on his extradition in sweden that's after losing his last ditch appeal there a fortnight ago his lawyers are challenging the legality of the ruling was said to be an unusual move the wiki leaks founder is wanted in sweden over sex crime allegations but its supporters fear it's a cover towards handing him over to the u.s. but assange just plighted. isn't keeping him from tackling the world's big issues in the latest edition of the show he takes on those plundering online privacy the series is really to watch at r.t. dot com. everything that happened on the internet just wound after being unknown a few months of few years before so you cannot predict what will be the next innovation my point here is that its. policy has to adapt to society and not the other way around absolutely the key thing i think that people

should walk away with especially if there is some sixteen year old or eighteen year old person that wishes they could make the world a better place the thing they have to know is that you can build alternatives and everyone everyone especially with the internet is empowered to do that for the context of the existence of and it is not that they have a duty to do it but it is that if they wish to do this they can. washington again hitting out and around accusing it of seeking dominance on the global stage of the nuclear weapons program runs chief nuclear negotiator disputes the claims in an interview with t says that on the contrary a uni polar world as it is now has no future. the world is changing people are no longer willing to accept a reality where a few selected powers can dictate the course of the world that the balance of power is shifting into the hands of the people or 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 avoidance of 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 motor and they're using force as a method some of the world's democracies continue to push for when it comes to dealing with to rand's nuclear program both the us and israel are still mulling the feasibility of a nuclear strike against the state now next hour more comment on that middle east expert was a rubber he explains why israel's threats are driving ever toughing international sanctions on iran. i think that what the israeli leadership is doing is just to. capitalize on kind of a momentum with the sanctions first before in the mind of many israelis the implementation of the functions 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 more than i think strict policy with regard to iran in order to appease israel this is how it's where they think. the u.s. military's admitted that major mistakes were made during its wars in iraq and afghanistan in a report that showed flaws in training and policy but also highlighted a lack of understanding of the realities faced by troops now it seems the country's war veterans are joining an increasingly angry public over what they see as america's constant cycle of war with some even ditching their honors of valor as autism is to see a churkin offender. true patriots they followed 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 a mills 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 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 on 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 it's now a war base of terrorism is a base it's a war based off of other motives for money and political power agendas boil in chicago dozens of veterans march the streets what 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 disobedient. and really get it anyway basically this is going to get them into. military and it worries were not when 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 will is my new stories of in a series of apparently coordinated bombings across iraq killing at least fifty three people and injuring dozens of others full blast targeted shiite pilgrims in the capital baghdad as they march through religious anniversary of the bombs went off in several mainly shiite cities to islam it's insurgents linked to al qaeda frequently try to stoke sectarian tensions by attacking pilgrims. space borrowing costs of solar to the highest snow since joining the euro madrid's misery continues to pile up with ratings agency fitch also downgrading eighteen spanish banks the country's how to tap into one hundred billion euros from

a financial backup fund to help shore up its banks which have been saddled with a mountain of bad property loans the bailout was supposed to bolster faith in the euro but political risk consultant john holzman told me it's going to increasingly tough for politicians now 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 skin 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 it's going to be conditionality the e.u. level and the spanish and what's happening is you see the politics of this getting harder and harder this is miracle needs that conditionality the spanish government can hope to survive if there is that conditionality they've lost in. through the story in the beginning to believe this nonsense the crisis is. there going for any true greece or portugal or ireland no strain and what's happened is that after every bailout the amount of time it takes to merge it's true that for improved

realize that indeed this is nonsense it isn't also get smaller and smaller and smaller so you're going from two months to two weeks to do so and the case is really really two hours for things to turn around this is by far the image from the from the end of the story. to include what is called show with k two in the business desk or your world bank said some pretty stern words for the global economy earlier than that but up to visit to russia yeah exactly that telling the developed nations to brace themselves for tougher times ahead while improving that outlook for russia's civil details later while we're talking of russia let's check out the afternoon session on the my says on the r.t.s. and we can say that both heading in the north direction there around half a percent in the us following on from opposed to session that we had in asia let's get on to the blue chips as he's moving the largest lead in moscow continuing that . one point six percent up and posted territory right now but the magnate is well

over two percent that solves of posting net profit beating expectations of a sense last month we've also got bank of most there right the whole five percent they too posted net profit of seven hundred fifty five million dollars twenty eleven that was a joke must take improvement from the net loss of two billion in twenty are it's about. this is a good father is considering building in the united arab emirates the company has taken part in the tend to link the country's capital. with business hub to buy now the window of the two billion dollars project will have to construct a five hundred ten kilometer long row with the into infrastructure up by twenty six days so as i say the fitting for that one with a successful hey base there. all right let's get on to the cars to see how that floyd who got the order one twenty five fifty is still getting i was mentioning earlier that the greeks are pulling out those year eyes from their cash machines they're anticipating exiting the euro and with that they're anticipating hyper

inflation if they do return to the drachma. anticipate saying i care a lot about surprised all right is have a look at the ruble you can see there is gaining against the u.s. dollar on the year and it's made from all right we have a look at the european markets that as we've got the foot today from the tenth of the cent down to the four tenths of a cent in negative territory this time i just read some comments as well we had a time in bond auction we have foreign costs rising as a result we have the finance minister of germany wolfgang scribal saying all stary see is the way forward for its latest they can say and they will see results are as good and so the oils are suing using days a loss is really in this session now the international energy agency says global markets are better supplied this year we've also got u.s. stockpiles as well they're saying that they're actually going to be going down apparently that's what the latest reports are telling me a mixed picture on your screen it just said if you look at the prices they are

indeed light or let's move all this talk about the world bank as we were saying haven't yet they are warning the developed nations that they ship bracing themselves for weak growth and tougher times. call says a developing economy will grow five point three percent this year that's almost one percent less than twenty eleven policymakers take measures to ensure they can sustain growth amid the escalation of the debt crisis in the year i say yet is good news for russia because they're on the front line of the crisis five says is improve the outlook for the country's economy expecting g.v. pay to increase by almost four percent this year while trying to expect the great to be mostly supported by stronger production. to go outside forces calling for another bit of help from russia and as media says the country has requested. five billion euro credit support to support its financial system this comes after moody's cut the rating of top cypriot banks that mainly depend on the troubled greek economy last year busser provided the republic with a two and

a half million euro line which at that time it grew to ten percent of cypriots paid a token of grace is made to gas companies is having trouble paying its bills the company is importing eighty percent of its gas from russia and these one hundred twenty million euros to cover this month supplies meanwhile greece the state's electricity utility p.p.c. shuts down gas power stations a base production that units if you buy locally minds are that so for me today kevin to me is up legs for our suits were things katie you are just a couple of minutes away from crosstalk the only topical debate show to watch and it's on this channel. if. you.

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