al qaeda is number two voices his backing for syrian rebels over their fight against the government in a new video released a week after washington claimed he'd been killed. there is growing condemnation of polish hooligans after they attacked russian football fans story euro twenty twelve in warsaw it led to bloody clashes and the arrest of around one hundred fifty local . time all julian assange waits britain's supreme court decision on whether it will reopen his extradition case the u.k. moles a new bill that could prevent potential whistleblowers from speaking out. this

nine pm in moscow this is r.t. coming to you live on me so now away with our top story this hour and a militant web site has released a video message from al qaeda as deputy leader calling on islamist outside syria to join the rebels there against for fighting i guess i should say president also that now earlier the u.s. claimed yeah yeah i live b. have been killed in a drone attack in pakistan calling it a major blow to the terrorist group it's not clear when the newly published video was made meanwhile the finding in syria has reached new levels as government forces seek to blunt a nationwide offensive by the armed opposition who had withdrawn from the internationally back cease fire robert naiman from the u.s. based just foreign policy believes there's a contradiction between the u.s. policy of supporting rebels and their recognition that al-qaeda is fighting among.

they already know that the and even according to the us. they're concerned for example. the like groups in iraq have moved to syria and are you know likely believed by the us to be behind some of the spectacular bombings and terrorist attacks in syria on the one hand you have the u.s. saying that they are concerned about the armed opposition and their links to. jihad is on the other hand you have us providing so-called non-lethal aid to the armed opposition and be sickly giving apparently a green light to other countries to arm the opposition so yes there is a contradiction in policy but staying with syria russia is denying allegations made by the us that moscow supplying the author regime with combat helicopters russia's

foreign minister said moscow is fulfilling its obligations on earlier contracts which only involve the air defense systems the comments were made during circle of robes of visit to tehran our correspondent. is in the iranian capital. so you i would have said that after that announcement by hillary clinton even the pentagon came out saying that it doesn't have the information to confirm these claims and said you know our office said that russia is supplying arms to syria and i thought you said in accordance with previous contracts and these arms can only be used for air defense and not for any sort of aggression against civilians since moscow is completely against that and against supplying any side of this conflict with weapons which can be used to harm civilians unlike the russian foreign minister said i don't like the united states was also.

condemned the calls by some western nations to apply pressure solely on syrian authorities. everyone should stop the violence in syria if a part of the international community understands kofi annan plan only as a demand for russia to make the syrian leadership stop fighting then i declare that this is a provocation some foreign powers are already openly claiming that the peace plan is not working but those who say that are largely pushing the unappeasable opposition to continue arms provocations. the russian foreign minister is also reminded that moscow is calling for an international conference to be held on syria and stressed that it's absolutely vital for all outside players including regional players including iran to walk in this conference despite disapproval from washington more dialogue on the iranian nuclear program is expected in moscow to start on the eighteenth of june to be raining foreign ministers. around hopes for

constructive dialogue which will include the understanding of both sides of this whole situation which recently got new spin around has announced that it's it's now entering the final stages of developing a nuclear submarines stressing to every country has the right to use peaceful energy peaceful nuclear energy if it has the capacity to do so and this energy could be used if the country wants sold to power vessels as well. and there's another twist in the arabian issue as we explore it later this hour with a new embargo against iran's oil trade ready to take a fact we look at what's behind washington decision to allow india and six other nations to sit out the sanctions. poland's interior ministry

is calling for serve your punishment for hooligans involved in bloody clashes with russian football supporters in warsaw before the two countries euro two thousand and twelve showdown by lance continued after the match to with poland's ambassador to russia saying polish psuedo founds are to blame for the turmoil that resulted in multiple injuries that's now cross live to our eastern european correspondent alexei yourself he say the european championships are heavily policed and the march by russian fans was agreed in advance what further reaction has there been to what happened. well clearly all this violence happened even before the march took place to the streets of war so when as we as it has been reported by eyewitnesses that about fifty polish fans attacked twenty russian fans in a bar somewhere in central warsaw then this marches started and you know we all get used to the fact that hooliganism is all about one wing of radical supporters of one team attacking another wing of radical supporters of another team but this time

and there's been lots of footage proving the point the radical supporters of the polish team were attacking a regular simple russian fans just marching through the streets of warsaw in something in an action which had been agreed before that now the violence was so strong that the police had to use small bombs tear gas and water cannons to pacify the angry polish more but this certainly certainly these ugly scenes do not add any good reputation to the tournament to the polish side of the tournament which has already seen several clashes between irish and polish fans between creation in different positions going no good for football and definitely the relations between russia and poland have never been easy but definitely from what i've seen in these pictures from warsaw this is something like a blast from the past because i've been traveling to warsaw may times in the recent years and i've never seen any hostile attitude towards me even though i'm russian and generally the relations between warsaw and moscow have proved greatly since

let's say twenty years ago but clearly there are some political forces in poland was still interested in inciting hatred between russia and poland and we can actually assume that some of this hatred actually spilled out into the streets of warsaw last night we understand that for now two almost two hundred fans have been detained by the authorities one hundred fifty of them are polish the polish the poland's sports minister and many other forwards have already pin the blame down on the polish fans but we also understand that twenty russian fans who responded violently to this attack will be deported from the country they're also been detained and they will be deported from the country and they will have problems with gaining shang interviews in the future that's what we know for now. live with us on the line from kiev ukraine thanks for that. now for more on bad story my colleague kevin owen spoke to glyn ford a former m.e.p. and member of the anti nazi league he says anti 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 new nazi groups on both sides the difference seems to be that there are political elements 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 because i 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 they came from the b.b.c. panorama program listening to that minute. eleven days time europe's biggest festival of football kicks off. but just how safe will some fans be. and 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 larry 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. we're also bringing you

all the latest from euro twenty twelve online at our team dot com including hundreds of comments from football fans in poland who are discussing the clashes between rival fans so in the debate on our website plus. if you fancy facing up to internet tormentors and dragging them to court britain gives you the opportunity with a new law against online trolling being adopted the details at our team dot com. if you're following up on my do you'll go to the good. manners are sort of a throwback and archaic part of. it goes back to a time when people would lie down on their horses in the wild lands and pick up these fugitives and putting them into the sheriff for prosecution i don't think the

company may. kill. him when they go out there he's got one. and you have to hope that nothing. but we're chasing killers and you got to keep that in mind though this is to me dollar bill because the risk. we're not superheroes we can be killed to you know they shoot me in the head i'm going to die. and. once you've hunted manual never go back to. the trial minutes past the hour you're with r t live from the russian capital where caylee's 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 now it's obvious 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 if this motion is rejected as santu denies any wrongdoing can still take his case to the european court of human rights his supporters believe that sweden might not be his final destination and it's just a step towards tending him to the u.s. for prosecution on charges of espionage. meanwhile julian assange is just one of the targets of a possible clampdown on whistleblowers which is gaining momentum the british parliament is currently considering a bill which if adopted might to tear people from coming forward and revealing serious rule breaking and corporate wrongdoing sarah furthur looks at the possible downsides for those who want to speak out. 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 a battle against. this video named collateral murder is just one of many wiki leaks revelations exposing the real crimes revolutionising whistle blowing and tearing down the divide between governments and ordinary people in the government who furious exposing wrongdoing can preview risky business as wendy addison found out back in two thousand whilst working as a treasurer of the south african company leisure net she discovered the c.e.o.'s 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 because literally when i started getting the streets and honestly 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 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

a member of the international whistleblowing research network and an employment lawyer david lewis tells us the proposed test has dropped a bomb on whistleblowing provisions the great virtue of the existing provisions is there's no public interest it was a very simple test as long as you had enormous motive if you could be sure in advance that you would be protected now individuals will all those claiming to use the provisions will have to satisfy public interest to us and make it very difficult for people to advise them the government 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 blowing provisions but the sun 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 crack down in whistle blowing blowing the whistle have to differing degrees have 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 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. london. well for now some whistleblowers are still speaking out and julian assange is doing so right here on our t.v. in the latest edition of his interview program he takes on both plundering our mind pirates privacy and using the internet for spying you can watch it as well as all the previous episodes from the series at a special section of our website r c dot dot com. 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 ed gillespie black people for illegally shoot the son of a. tamed without charge but that hasn't stopped. the day. the can change the world tomorrow. the u.s. says they won't punish india and six other countries for sitting out the international embargo on buying iranian oil which is due to begin later this month it's seen as an attempt to smooth the way before high level talks which are underway in washington between u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton and her indian counterpart the waiver comes in return for cutting purchases of the reining in crude and leaves china as the last major importer of which could be affected by tough financial sanctions. poor already an independent researcher and writer says even if beijing is affected by

the penalties it won't give in to u.s. pressure on the iranian issue and it's not just a question of getting its energy from a different source it's a question of succumbing to a power that once to basically eliminate china if china could to america demands americans demand then it's it's really inspires giving up part of this decision making and for a country that has developed some margin has gained so much internationally that's a very tough price to pay all the china is right now their immediate target and does aside from the countries that are going to up the votes next to united states . india will not be very safe in the long run i mean if you if you recall in the late sixty's the united states trying to basically join forces to align themselves against a stronger soviet union it's not china it is

a desire to do right to target the united states along with the other with their sanctions education and what have you so india should be very careful and understand where it wants to be in the future with wants to halt this is for action . a look now at some more world news this hour a series of bombings has shaken you wrong killing at least fifty three people and injuring dozens others for explosions targeted shia pilgrims in baghdad as they marked a religious anniversary other blasts went off in mainly shia cities al-qaeda affiliated is the most militant often attempt to stoke sectarian tensions by attacking shia pilgrims. ousted tunisian president ben ali has been sentenced in absentia here to twenty years jail by a military court in the country has 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 saudi authorities are yet to respond to tunisians extradition request has overthrow helped inspire the arab spring uprising . south sudan's parliament has accused seventy five top officials of corruption but at least four billion dollars president salva kiir wrote a letter to current and former government employees asking them to return the funds sixty million dollars have already been recovered south sudan declare independence almost a year ago with the country suffering from massive corruption and poverty. but the u.s. ambassador to russia has denied allegations that washington supports opposition protests here in moscow which mainly in the way when ian many i should say in the west have labeled an attempt at a revolution but michael mcfaul didn't admit that previous american administrations were behind regime change in some post soviet states let's get the details of what

the ambassador said artie's jacob greaves is following this story jake up what exactly did michael mcfaul have to say the current u.s. ambassador to russia made this statement when speaking to a crowd of students in moscow now importantly he stressed that the current us administration the obama administration has played no role in backing me of the opposition movement or pushing for regime change in russia but when he spoke of previous administrations before obama then he alluded to them pursuing some form of regime change when it comes to the former post soviet state so he was talking about some of the color of illusions the stress color of relations. that occurred in a century russia's back door states like ukraine out there between two thousand for two thousand and five we saw mass protests taking place there was widespread speculation a time the u.s. may have some form of involvement they may have been backing some of that protest

movement eventually led in two thousand and five to the storm and of a new president after a presidential rerun of you shane koch and we also saw another so-called color revolution that of the rose revolution that was in georgia that eventually led to the store to mikhail saakashvili as president so that's where the term color revolution comes from and that has been a lot of concern raised by some groups in russia quite recently when it comes to the protest movement here ahead of the presidential elections just in march before that charge that again there may be another form of color revolution taking place and this is something of course that hasn't really reached much evidence and found itself as strenuously denied in this statement but so have the previous administrations denied involvement in the post soviet back door in the in their revolutions as well right artie's jacob grieves following this developing story thank you very much for that update well dmitri is next and. spotlight this hour it

seems is on italy's sovereign debt what's going on well basically. born yields have gone up again above six percent and that's a bad sign. for the country are becoming more expensive and that's in the wake of investors anticipation that it could be next in line after for a bailout let's take a look at what's going on the markets and reaction to that and other news of course the dow jones and barely making it to positive territory this by retail sales are coming in worse than expected a contraction of point two percent the month of may the second month of good traction for retail sales that could be indicating a very bad trend. in the europe was seen the close about an hour ago with a full c zero point two percent of backs down by the same amount and that's of course hampered by these anticipations that peripheral europe could be in line not only for bailouts for green be even wider problems hopefully some light will be

cast after the election in the greece and on sunday over here in the world first the currency markets the euro is gaining massively against the dollar that's on the back of these retail sales days with the dollar basically musing rather than the euro getting getting some strong news to support it and the russian ruble managed to strengthen again spoken seized by roundhouse. in the commodities markets we're seeing light sweet and brant moving in different directions by around thirty five cents each that's. an opec meeting a crucial crucial opec meeting in geneva tomorrow when production quotas may be changed in this or that direction action different countries pushing for different decisions and over here in russia we've seen the first session of the we kick off from the positive note with the r.t.s. and the my sixteen around point seven percent the back of high oil prices at the

time of the closing of the russian markets and the moving the russian to my sex was burbank mostly among banking shares. went up one point eight percent magni the retail chain was the weaker than the market after reporting revenue up around a third a year on year in may and gazprom was weaker than the market also barely making it into pulls the territories look at that story russia's government may reduce the planned tax hike for independent gas producers for example nova new rate comes into effect next year has made gas companies frightened to cut investment and exploration as promised turned out to be a potential exception as many believe it's serious the under-taxed. the world bank has put russia on the front line of crisis by to improve the outlook for the country's economy expecting g.d.p. to increase by almost four percent this year specs growth to be mostly supported by stronger production. and debt stricken cyprus is calling for another bit of help

from russia. as the countries requested a five billion euro credit to support its financial system this comes after moody's cut the ratings of top cypriot banks that mainly depend on the troubled greek economy last year russia provided the republic with two and a half billion euros of a load which at the time was equal to ten percent of cyprus is. that's what i have for you this hour news i'll be back until it's time with more wealthy and then thanks for that. after our very short break here in archie i'll be back with the headlines and then it's laura lister and she takes an in-depth look at the financial headlines for us in capital account.

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