iraq have moved to syria and are you know likely believed by the u.s. 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. them on the other hand you have u.s. providing so-called non-lethal aid to the armed opposition in be sickly giving apparently a green light to other countries to arm the opposition so yes there is a contradiction. but staying with syria russia is denying allegations made by the us that moscow supplying the acid 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'm like the united states was also. condemned the calls by some western nations to apply pressure slowly 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 and 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 the iranian foreign ministers. around hopes for a constructive dialogue which will include the understanding of both sides of this whole situation which recently god spin

around has announced that it's it's now entering the final stages of developing 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 servier punishment for hooligans involved in bloody clashes with russian football supporters in warsaw before the two countries euro two thousand and twelve showdown by that's 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 let's 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 look 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 march started and you know we all get used to the fact that hooliganism is all about one wing 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 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 travelling to warsaw many 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 baldwins sports minister and many other words 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 going to be easy 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 that story my colleague kevin owen spoke to glyn ford a former m.e.p. and member of the mt 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 neo nazi groups on both sides the difference

seems to be that there are political elements seen in poland and parts of the media that seem to be whipping up these this is hatred is sent a phobia towards russia and towards russian supporters you've got similar problems in ukraine with extreme nationalist me and 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 there will be 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 nazi symbols and the rest it's obviously a difficult territory for us to know mark minority because i 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 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 was some fans be. able to 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 for 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. 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 when the debate on our web site. if you fancy facing up

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but we're chasing killers and you've got to keep that in mind there's a two million dollar bill. without superheroes you can be killed too you know they should be in the head i'm going to die. and. once you hunted. it's twelve minutes past the hour you're with r t live from the russian capital we get 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 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 toward sending 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 real crimes revolutionizing whistleblowing 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 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 model where so playing 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 to squeak 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 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 it found that you would be protected now individuals who those claiming to use the provisions will have to satisfy public interest to us to 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 whistle blame provisions but the son this will be seen as just the latest measure making it harder out the truth. of course is the trend. is one crackdown it was 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 for has been told i was doing the wrong thing. and yet it felt so right for me and i knew that i was

doing the watching 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. . well for now some whistleblowers are still speaking out and julian assange is doing so right here on r t in the latest edition of his interview program he takes on both plundering our mind pirates privacy and using the internet for spying and watching as well all the previous episodes from the series at a special section of our website r c got a sanch dot com. i am truly innocent. editor of wiki leaks web expose the secret these documents belong the united states government being attacked by the united states strongly condemn. illegally should. be taped without charge but that something still.

today. that 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 reigning 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. it's not just a question of getting its energy from a different source it's a question of succumbing to

a power that months to basically eliminate china if china could to america demands americans demands then it is it's really inspires giving up part of this and sovereign decision making and for country that has developed some margin has gained so much internationally that's a very tough rest although china is right now their immediate target and doesn't start from the countries that are going to up he will slice the united states. into 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 is in fact the right target of the united states longer or the other with their sanctions education and what have you so india should be very careful and understand where it wants to be with wants to halt

this is us. a look now at some more world news this hour a series of bombings has shaken you killing at least fifty three people and injuring dozens others four 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 absentee year to twenty years jailed 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 get to respond to tunisians extradition request is overthrow helped inspire the arab spring uprising . south sudan's parliament has accused seventy five top officials of

corruption with at least four billion dollars stolen 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. that the u.s. ambassador to russia has denied allegations that washington supports opposition protests here in moscow which mainly in the way when in many i should say in the west have labeled an attempt at a revolution but michael mcfaul did meant 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. bust a russian made this statement into

a crowd of students in moscow now importantly he stressed that the. current u.s. and british administration the obama administration has played no part role in backing any 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 here we're talking about some of the color of illusions the stress color evolutions that occurred in a century russia's back door states like ukraine out there between two thousand for two thousand and five or so 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 it to you showing 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 this term color revolution comes from and there 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 may putin took charge again there may be another form of color revolution taking place and this is something of course that hasn't really reach much evidence and found itself as strenuously denied in this statement but so have the previous administrations denied involvement in the post soviet backdoor 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 foreign 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.

investors anticipation that it could be next in line after spain for a bailout let's take a look at what's going on the markets reaction to that and other news of course the dow jones and nasdaq are barely making it to positive territory despite retail sales also coming in worse than expected at contraction of point two percent the month of may the second month of contraction for retail sales that could be indicating a pretty bad trend in the europe was seen the close about an hour ago with a full c.r. 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 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 data 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 around. 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 different decisions and over here in russia we've seen the first session of the week 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 m i six was burbank mostly among banking shares. went up one point eight percent magni the

retail chain was the weaker than the market after opposing revenue up around. year and year in may and gazprom was weaker than the market also barely making it into bulls the territories said look at that story russia's government may reduce the planned tax hike for independent gas producers for example nova tech in 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 seriously undertaxed. the year world bank has put russia on the front line of crisis fight to improve the outlook for the country's economy expecting g.d.p. to increase by almost four percent this year bank strikes group to be mostly supported by stronger production. and debt stricken cyprus is calling for another bit of help from russia media says the countries requested a five billion euro credit to support its very natural 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 one of billion euros alone 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 right wealthy and then thanks for that. after our very short break here in our 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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here with r t one from moscow i have by it's kind of 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's growing condemnation of polish hooligans after they attacked russian football fans during euro twenty twelve in warsaw and it led to bloody classes and the arrest of around one hundred fifty local. and while julian assange awaits britain supreme court decision on whether it will reopen his extradition case in the u.k. miles a new bill that could prevent presidential whistleblowers from speaking out. next it's to washington for the latest edition of capital account with more on this start.

good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm more in the store here in washington d.c. busier headlines for tuesday june twelfth jones well it is the day two thousand and twelve the eurozone debt crisis plot thickens today as spanish government borrowing costs soared to their highest since the launch of the euro so maybe the bond market agrees with our guest from yesterday to address bank bailout ensures this pain isn't solvent italy is swept up in the mess with italian bond yields leaping up so with the low hanging sentiment group seemingly picked what does this mean for the euro for the dollar and of course for gold we'll talk about it and as markets and the media weigh eurozone policy decisions and the stakes of upcoming greek elections let's take a break from what government is doing to talk about what individuals are doing.