the number of true voices is 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 public school again that today attacked russian football fans story bureau twenty twelve in warsaw it led to bloody clashes and the arrest of around one hundred fifty locals. and while julian saundra waits britain supreme court decision on whether it will reopen his extradition case the u.k. molls a new bill that could prevent potential whistleblowers from speaking out. it's

eleven pm in moscow this is art to you coming to you live on nice in our way 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 fighting against president also earlier the u.s. claimed abu yahya our liberty had been killed in a drone attack in pakistan calling it a major blow to the terrorist group well it's not clear when the video was made but as real for most of the reports from syria it provides further evidence that extremist might be taking advantage of the country's civil war. this video is a clear indicator that in the conflict in syria you can't a global terrorist organization is taken solid and supporting those who are fighting against president bashar al assad and their eggs tending their presence.

in the country it's not the first message of its kind earlier in february we heard a card as leader calling on all muslims to support the syrian rebels president assad has been blaming militant groups and international terrorists for violence of his country since the beginning of the uprising here in syria last march but it took a year for the international community to start admitting that too it's only last tuesday that which foreign secretary william hague has also knowledge that groups affiliated with al qaida were operating in syria all visibly possibly on the side of the rebels and if you will in the conflict and violence here in the country we've also been hearing a lot and many times from members and from. members that they're ready to provide the rebels with all kinds of support but everything they need be money over weapons this news has come at the time of the reason volunteers all over syria and dramatic escalation of the events and u.n.

has expressed its concern over what's going on here in the country and banking moon has called an old countries with influence on both rebels of the syrian government to call on all parties to lay down arms and to pull back as he put it from the brink. robert nigh minute from the u.s. base just foreign policy believes there's a contradiction between the u.s. policy of supporting the rebels and their recognition that al qaida is fighting among men. they already know the and even according to the us their concern for example. like groups in iraq. to syria. 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 the u.s. 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 all of. russia's foreign minister has condemned some countries demands that moscow puts pressure on the outside regime to stop violence insisting that pressure must be applied to both sides in the syrian conflict but the comments came during circle of bribes visit to tehran where the syrian dominated the attend . everyone should stop the violence in syria if a part of the international community understands kofi anon is planned 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 and is not working but those who say that are largely pushing the unappeasable opposition

to continue arms provocations. now also during his visit russia's foreign minister responded to hillary clinton's claims that moscow supplying syrian authorities with combat helicopters but artie's lives these counseling have now joins us here to share her insight on both claims lucy take us through this string of these allegations where are the claims come from and how did russia's foreign minister respond exactly sure i knew so well the u.n. top u.n. official may have labeled the crisis in syria a full scale civil war but according to the u.s. secretary of state russia could be to blame for the escalating crisis secretary of state hillary clinton raised some eyebrows and caused quite a diplomatic stir on tuesday when she claimed that russian attack helicopters were on their way to damascus take a look. we have confronted the russians about stopping their continued arms shipments to to syria. they have from time to time said

that we shouldn't worry everything they're shipping is unrelated to their actions internally that peyton li untrue and we are concerned about the latest information we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from russia to syria. now the secretary of state's comments raise some eyebrows among those in the white house and even stumped the pentagon's own spokesman when asked about details in terms of what helicopters the secretary of state was referring to captain john kirby at the pentagon while a face some surprise take a look. can you provide any details as to what kind of helicopters were there to live or how are they being delivered. i have not seen reporting that indicates. that the russians are providing attack helicopters to the syrians or

just not seen that. well while washington was left to sort out the diplomatic mess that had begun over the secretary of state's comments the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov just missed the assertion explaining yet again that the long standing military relationship between damascus in syria right now consists of fulfilling old contracts all of which comply with international law. that include defensive systems not offensive capabilities of an interesting point however a russian firm that does make my seventeen attack helicopters does have a rather willing client in this business is booming and that's because the pentagon is actually turning to that firm to buy attack helicopters sports war in afghanistan it's a rather confusing situation but we will continue to follow it as it unfolds it is indeed thanks for breaking it down for us our team lucy kavanagh for breaking down for us the russian reaction to those allegations out of washington.

pose interior ministry is calling for the severe punishment of who begins involved in bloody clashes with russian football supporters in warsaw before the two countries euro two thousand and twelve showdown the violence continued after the match true with poland's ambassador to russia saying. france are to blame for the turmoil that resulted in multiple injuries are eastern european correspondent alexei or seven has the details. 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 peoples 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 all the whistler river in one thousand twenty when the polish forces of out numbered 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 the one 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. but for more on that story my colleague kevin zero in spoke to glyn ford and former m.e.p. also a member of the anti nazi league he's. says. the men cultivated in poland played a major role in stirring up tension. clearly you've got football hooligans on both sides you've got near 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. well i hope not. but i mean having seen some of the footage that was shown on panorama in the united kingdom extreme right wing neo nazi groups doing nazi the salutes wearing nazi 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 that came from the b.b.c. panorama program listening to that minute. eleven days telling europe's biggest festival the football kicks off. just how safe

is some friends be. on the 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 the 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 neighboring countries are well aware of the situation in ukraine and for that matter in in poland. we're also bringing you the latest from here zero twenty twelve online at r.t. dot com including hundreds of comments from football fans in poland who are discussing the clashes between rival fans during the debate on our website but. if you fancy facing up to internet tormentors and dragging them to court britain gives you the opportunity with a new book against on line trolling being adopted the details are t. dot com.

the u.s. ambassador to russia has denied claims that washington is attempting to stage a revolution in the country the allegations emerged as russia saw a wave of antigovernment protests in recent months but michael mcfaul did myth that previous american administrations were behind the overthrow of governments in some post soviet states but get the latest details from our jake greaves what exactly did the top u.s. diplomat in russia have to say or mark about fire she made this statement our question is field to field it to him by a group of students in moscow now what he was asked is has the u.s. played any role when it comes to all castrating a so-called color revolution in russia now this term color revolution they are

referring to what occurred in ukraine in georgia and ukraine between two thousand for two thousand and five we saw mass demonstrations on the street that eventually led to the installment of viktor yushchenko as president and that was called the orange revolution in georgia we had what's been dubbed the rose revolution and this eventually led to mikhail saakashvili taking power in both cases though there was speculation and quite right at the time that the u.s. was involved it was backing some of those protest movements essentially what market has done here is admit that he did have some form of action and in taking part in those revolutions and backing some of the opposition movements now in russia with the recent protests we've seen there's also been a lot of talk about a color revolution that's how some have interpreted what's been going on since the parliamentary elections is still going on today there's also been speculation the u.s. has been backing some of these members of the protest groups financially well mark

stated that the u.s. administration the current of barmah administration is doing nothing to pursue regime change here and isn't financially backing anyone in to do that of course he's serving the current and minister. aeration so you'd expect that kind of. artie's jacob griefs thank you very much for that update. we give these founder julian assange is awaiting a decision from britain supreme court over his request to reopen his extradition case it comes two 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 as large as lawyers claim the european arrest warrant was invalid because it was issued by a prosecutor and not by a judge or a court as required by u.k. law now if this motion is rejected as fans who 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 the step toward sending him to 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 or to sour 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 the battle against. this video named collateral murder is just one of many wiki leaks revelations exposing real crimes revolutionizing whistleblowing and tearing down the divides

between governments and ordinary people in the government who furious exposing wrongdoing can 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 were 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 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 wendy was in poor old in a lengthy legal wrangling and it would be more than a decade before those who committed the crime went to jail more than whistleblowing techniques have been giving people more power to take on big corporations and even

governments now the proposed changes to the law potentially threatening the protections also at a time when the culture surrounding whistleblowing be making big leaps forward the law could be set to take a big step back the problems being caused by this the enterprise and regulatory reform bill which is currently making its way through parliament and one small discrete line buried away in the text referring to a public interest test we were really worried that putting in a. public interest test into the legislation will 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 motu if you could be sure and it found that you would be protected now individuals will those claiming to use the

provisions will have to satisfy public interest to us and will make it very difficult for people to advise them the government 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. and whistle blowing blowing the whistle have to differing degrees how their lies 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 so r.t. london but 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 injury program he takes on those plundering online 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 t r sarge. julian assange. editor of wiki leaks. these documents belong the united states government beneath the united states strongly condemned. illegally. without trial. that.

can change the world tomorrow. there are new hopes of progress ahead of high level nuclear talks with the wrong due to take place in moscow next week to ron's top negotiator said it was finally agreed that proposals from both sides will be discussed that negotiations are to talk to site of jovial from the country's supreme national security council who says it's time to reject stereotypes that only a few powers can decide on the world's future. the world is changing people are no longer willing to accept a reality where a few select powers can dictate the course of the world the balance of power shifting into the hands of the people the fact that some nations seek to retain power through military means that is being rejected. 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 military means or occupation

and those that claim to use violence to further democracy in the end they always admit that they had all teary a motive. meanwhile washington continues to push for further sanctions against tehran next hour we talked to a mideast expert was a rabi who says the ever toughening pressure on iran is driven by israeli threats to strike its nuclear facilities here's a look at what's ahead. i think that the israeli leadership is doing just to. capitalize on kind of a memento with the sanctions first before in the minds of many israelis the implementation of sanctions is kind of a byproduct of israeli pressure because israel actually threatened to militarily attack you this was all forced the european union and the americans especially the americans to come up with a watch. a strict policy with regard to iran in order to appease israel this is how

it is with the think. a look now around the world at some other have viands a series of bombings has shaken iraq killing at least fifty three people and injuring dozens of 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 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 tunisia's extradition request his overthrow helped inspire the arab spring

uprisings. south sudan's part of the way it has accused seventy five top officials of corruption but at least four billion dollars still the president salva kiir wrote a letter to current and former government employees asking them to return the funds for the sixty million dollars has already been recovered from sudan declared in south sudan declared independence almost a year ago with a country suffering from massive corruption and poverty. let's check in now with to meet the the business task and we're near the end of ones this session is looking bad in the us what's happening across the atlantic is actually also a bit of a distraction going on as the c.e.o. of j.p. morgan chase jamie dimon is testifying on capitol hill so distraction from what's going on in europe from the retail data that's come in in the united states which is worse than expected and therefore we're seeing the dow jones nasdaq barely

making it to positive territory this hour at the close of the european markets this is the picture we're seeing the fourth year in the dark so that makes it the same time basically concerns about italy's bond auction crucial for thursday and also deals have been going up above six percent back again and that's basically a bad sign investors are seeing it's only as the next one in line or very much. on the currency markets we're seeing the euro gaining massively against the dollar as the dollars being. ditched by investors warning this bad retail data in the states meanwhile the ruble managed to gain around half a percent against both sides. and on the russian market scituate has came back after a long weekend we'll look at the end of the second first of all the oil prices actually help the russian market at the close they were better than then right now we're seeing them up and down thirty five said basically this is has

a single head of an opec summit on thursday in geneva when a decision might be made on changing production quotas for the same on the russian market as i was mentioning traders came back after a long weekend and started buying up in the end shares are worth around three quarters of a percent more than the previous session on saturdays so we're continuing a good streak of of around five sessions down right on the my six the best and best trading stock was burbank among the banking stocks up almost two percent maggie the retailer was worse than the market after opposing revenues for may go up by a third year on year and gazprom was also weaker than the market rushes governments may reduce a the planned tax hike for independent gas producers such as nov attack now the new rate comes into effect next year and has made gas companies frightened to cut investment and exploration gazprom has turned out to be a potential exception as many believe it seriously and. the world bank has put

russia on the front line of crisis fighters you know has improved the outlook for the country's economy expecting g.d.p. to increase bonus four percent this year well bank expects the growth to be mostly supported by stronger production. and debt stricken cyprus is calling for another bit of help from russia the island's media says the country has 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 republic with two and a half billion euros already. overload which at the time was ten percent of so persistent. as the markets like this sell most of the business to of course tomorrow eight twenty am casey bilby will be all right we'll see you then thanks for that update on the way peter of the bells debate show cross talk of tonight his guest to discuss the recent russian protests that's after the headlines and this short break.

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