a way. al qaeda is number two voices is backing for syrian rebels over their fight against the government in a new video that's been released the week of the washington play we've been killed . was growing condemnation of polish hooligans after the attack russian football fans during euro twenty twelve in warsaw it led to bloody clashes and the arrests of around one hundred fifty locals. and while julian assange waits britain supreme court decision on whether it will reopen his extradition case the u.k. voles a new bill that could prevent potential whistle blows from speaking out. here

in moscow you are watching r t with me kevin zero in on our top story of militant web sites and released a video message from al qaeda as deputy leader calling on the islamists outside syria to join the rebels fight against president assad the u.s. claimed. libby had been killed in a drone attack in pakistan calling it a major blow to the terrorist group so that it's not clear when this newly published video is made meantime the head of the u.n. peacekeeping operations says syria has plunged now into a full scale civil war the fighting in the country has previously reached levels unseen before of ferocity as government forces seek to blunt a nationwide offensive by the armed opposition who'd withdrawn from the internationally backed cease fire when a port has war and all the latest developments at the u.n. . the u.n. peacekeeping chief are a lot. recently me 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 lead. 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 the u.s. pretty much leaving it trying to get russia and china to agree on international sanctions against president bashar al assad until this point russia and china have opposed any type of international pressure in the in the form of sanctions instead referring to kofi annan six point peace plan and fully supporting that so of course these statements coming from a top u.n. official declaring civil war in syria can be

a game changer within the security council in the days ahead you have to remember the ninety day mission of three hundred unarmed observers in syria was adopted under the the idea that there would be a ceasefire in syria if there is no ceasefire what is there left for the un observers to be monitoring 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 a correspondent will over the crisis has reached a new level political. told us he believes kofi and syria's only hope. i think the situation has reached very dangerous proportions and there are

civilians that are being killed and today we had some. there were some pictures of harbin massacres children have been targeted and innocent civilians and i think however it's not too late to i mean i am afraid that perhaps the statement given by the united nations may may be. desperate call 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. staying with syria russia is

denying allegations made by the us that moscow supplying the assad regime with combat helicopters russia's foreign minister said moscow's fulfilling its obligations on earlier contracts which involve only air defense systems that cannot be used for offensive purposes and breach any international agreements for minister lavrov made the statement during his visit to tehran where he also is to discuss iran's involvement in an international conference about the syrian crisis the russian proposal to hold such an event was embraced by china the u.s. however as well as its western allies has expressed strong reservations over iran's participation a secretary for a supreme national security council told r.t. it's time to reject stereotypes that only a few powers can decide on the whole world's future. the world is changing people are no longer willing to accept a reality with a few selected 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 to a new model where all nations and peoples would respect each other for that and that is what we've always stood for democracy never comes from violence with the help of violence or through military means or occupation and those that claim to use violence to further democracy in the end they always admit that they had ulterior motives and that are still ahead of the program the ugly side of the beautiful game is that expert opinion for years about how polish mady of might have stoked up tensions out of that crunchy euro twenty twelve match that saw local hooligans last night attack russian fans. out of the midst of two unpopular wars u.s. veterans turned the tables on washington denouncing their country and the wars that they fought. wealthy british style.

markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons are there are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on r t. russia would be so much brighter if you know about song from feinstein crashing. down totty dot com. top polish officials have condemned the behavior of hooligans in warsaw who attack

russian fans before the two countries euro two thousand and twelve showdown fires continue to after the match with poland's ambassador to russia saying polish hooligans of the blame for the turmoil that resulted in multiple injuries are eastern europe correspondent geoff skew reports. one hundred and fifty poles have been arrested for attacking the crowd of russian fans and the 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 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 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 supporters who attacked the russian crowd 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 nine hundred 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. well from all the story there was supposed to glen ford a former m.v.p. and a member of the anti not silly he says russia sentiment cultivated in poland played a major role in stirring up tension in the country. clearly you've got football hooligans on both sides and you've got near nazi groups on both sides the difference seems to be that their political element seen in poland and parts of the media seem to be whipping up these this is a trade center phobia towards russia and towards russian supporters you've got similar problems in ukraine with extreme nationalist me a nazi groups as well and it's led to a situation where for my viewing from afar of the might choose many of the stadia. i mean how likely is it to progress is there that we're going to see further clashes there in ukraine. but i hope not. but i mean having seen some of the

footage that was shown on panorama in the united kingdom of extreme right wing near nazi groups doing nazi dissolute wearing r.c. symbols and the rest it's obviously a difficult territory for us to know mark minority. and found in general we've actually got a clip we're talking about there was a fifteen second clip which is going to show our viewers know that came from the b.b.c. panorama program listening to that minute. eleven days time you were upset because the football kicks off. am just saying it was some friends be. set it up very well today i mean is that an accurate reflection of the problems there or was a case of it makes good t.v. viewing in some kind as well i think is probably in between the two frankly i mean clearly our problems there and those of us who are looking at the growth of the

extreme right across the european union in neighboring countries are well aware of the situation in ukraine and for that matter in in poland. former m.e.p. they've lived for speaks of a bit earlier on about the subject will happy and the football will bring you all the latest. twenty twelve online at r.t. dot com peters all the russian players including as well hundreds of comments from football fans of poland were discussing those clashes as well a lot of comment lot of buzz going on about that between rival fans if you will join in the debate as well you can in a web site we're talking about a web site if you fancy facing up to those internet tormenters and draggin that are cool or maybe will britain gives you the opportunity to do that with a new law against online trolling spring adopted you can find out more about that at r.t. dot com as well. wiki

leaks founder julian assange is awaiting a decision from britain supreme court over his request to reopen his extradition case it comes to weeks after he lost a previous appeal against being handed over to authorities in sweden where he's wanted for questioning about sex crime allegations such as lawyers claim the european arrest warrant was invalid because it was issued by a prosecutor and not a judge or a court as required by u.k. law now if this motion is rejected denies any wrongdoing can still take his case to the european court of human rights his supporters many of whom are at the moment rallying near the court building believe that sweden might not be his final destination either and it's just a step toward sending him to the u.s. for prosecution on charges of espionage. meantime julian assange is just one of the targets of a possible clampdown on whistleblowers is gaining momentum the british parliament is currently considering a bill which if adopted might deter people from coming forward and revealing serious rule breaking in corporate wrongdoing r.t.

sarah firth looks at the possible downside for those who want to speak out. the war on whistle blowing it's a war of attrition good one to some who has nothing against people that have a lot of wells a lot of power behind them the battle against corruption. this video named collateral murder is just one of many wiki leaks revelations exposing real crimes revolutionizing whistleblowing and tearing down the divides between governments and ordinary people 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 it was

literally me i started getting the streets 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 when he was in poor as in a lengthy legal wrangling and it would be more than a decade before those 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 being caused by this the enterprise and regulatory reform bill which is currently making its way through parliament and one small discrete line buried away in the text referring to

a public interest test we were really worried that putting in a. public interest test into the legislation will have a chilling effect on the ability of workers to speak up a member of the international whistleblowing research network and an employment lawyer david lewis tells us the proposed test has dropped a bomb on whistle blame 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 all of those claiming to use the provisions will have to satisfy a public interest to us and will 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 it 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'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 sarah r.t. london will follow the story closely for now though at least some whistle blowers are still speaking out to julian assange is doing so on this very channel info in the latest edition of his interview program he takes on those plundering online privacy and using the internet for spying you watch it as well as all the previous episodes from the series over the last couple of months if you want to catch up on

them again in a special section of our website where they're all streaming at r.t. doctor sanjay dot com once again as our t. dollars signage dot com and if you want to see them. i'm julian assange. editor of wiki leaks web expose the old secret these documents belong the united states government being attacked by the powerful united states strongly condemning black people or illegally shoot. to be tamed without charge but that doesn't stop them. today. that can change the world tomorrow. around the world in brief some top news stories for you now to bring you up to date with a series of bombings has rocked iraq has killed at least fifty three and injured dozens of others four explosions targeted shia pilgrims in the capital baghdad as that marked a religious anniversary and then another blast soul for sure mainly she is cities

to al qaeda affiliated islam most militants so often attempt to stoke sectarian tensions by attacking shia pilgrims. ousted president ben ali has been sentenced and sent here to twenty years jailed by a military court in the country he's been found guilty of murder looting and inciting disorder ben ali and his wife fled to saudi arabia after mass protests last year ended his twenty three year rule so you thought of his yet to respond to to his ears extradition request is overthrow helped inspire the arab spring uprisings. in south sudan the parliament there's a q seventy five top officials of corruption with at least four billion dollars being stolen president salva kiir wrote a letter to current and former government employees asking them to return the phones sixty million dollars have already been recovered south sudan the cleared independence almost a year ago the country is suffering from massive corruption and poverty. war medals the symbol of a soldier's sacrifice to his country they usually on

a veterans wear proudly yet in the united states these days some are throwing them back in washington's face as art is a nice to see a churkin explains next former troops are joining an american public that's fed up with its nation's continual state of war. true patriots they followed the order to fight their country's battles scott olsen survived two tours in iraq with your only to be critically injured upon returning home by police clashing with occupy oakland protesters olsen 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 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 some up 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 this war base of terrorism is a base it's a war based off of other motives for money and political power agendas of oil in chicago dozens of veterans march the streets like these anymore and dump their war medals.

by simply throwing them out in rejection of what those medals signify this is where we are disobedient. and really get it i mean basically this is to them. military is what night 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 twenty three minutes past six in the evening moscow time if you watch in about ten minutes ago we're covering the julian assange story and talking about his program we gave you some tough information you just gave us and the

information if you want to watch those programs again online they're all streaming yesterday's program no one's going but the last couple of months the address is www dot dot com. dot com there's no reason to mess it now ok let's catch up with the business show we dimitris there dmitri medvedev twenty minutes before the russian markets closed wednesday session hours ago and well is going so much better in the united states or in europe where investors moods as been have been hampered by retail data coming out in the united states which have shown in the second month of contraction retail sales went down point two percent in the month of may. it was revised to the worse the data from the month of april and therefore we are seeing the dow jones and the nasdaq declining around two point four percent on the worries that basically consumer spending is contracting as a general trend over in europe we're seeing pretty much the same picture of the footsie and the dax the quieting within the one percent the only european index

that i'm seeing in positive territory is spain's ibex but it's been moving out of key really with the with european indices now in russia we are seeing on the in the final minutes of trading we are seeing some positive movement on the point for. percent of my sex is very much flat to positive indeed around ninety minutes still left on the clock before before we see you we hear the closing bell among the stocks burbank is the strongest it's the most liquid of financial stocks there is on the market it's up around one percent magnet the retail chain is up one percent up to its revenues in the past quarter went up around by around a third and gazprom is worse than markets down the half a percent on the back of my royal prices well look at them and just. in the currencies was seeing the russian ruble strengthening around more than half a percent against the euro and a bit weaker actually versus the dollar and that's out of key with the global trend

with the euro strengthening versus the dollar. in this area at least and in the commodities light sweet and brant moving now both of them downwards and that's ahead of a crucial opec meeting on thursday where we might hear actually some countries pressuring for a cut in production like venezuela for example in order to maintain prices higher levels whereas saudi arabia is insisting on on potentially cutting it maybe using collective efforts to do that collective group of experts. now the world bank is one that the developing nations should brace themselves for we grow from tougher times the banks latest forecasts as developing countries will grow five point three percent this year almost one percent less than in two thousand weapons urged policymakers to take measures to ensure that they can sustain growth from it escalation of the debt crisis in the euro zone at the same time the bank has put russia on the front line of crisis fighters doesn't prove the outlook for the

country's economy expecting g.d.p. to increase by almost four percent this year the world bank expects the growth to be mostly supported by stronger production. that stricken cyprus is calling for another bit of help from raw. the others media says the country's requested a five billion euro credit to support its financial system this comes after moody's cut the ratings of top cypriot banks mainly depend on the troubled greek economy last year russia already provided the republic with two and a half billion euros with at the time equal to ten percent of the cypriot. and in the greece speaking of it its major gas company devon is having trouble paying its bills the company's importing eighty percent of its gas from russia and needs one hundred twenty million euros to cover this month's supplies meanwhile greece's state electricity utility p.p.c. shuts down gas power stations and boost production units fueled by locally mine

coal. as oil markets like this out have the closing pictures of the closing picture for the russian market for you all right dimitri thanks for that now after a short break here on r.t. we're bringing you expert opinion and a lot more thought as well about the current tensions between iran and israel that follows one of our top stories with me kevin our next.

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