international terrorist 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 british foreign secretary william hague has also knowledge that groups affiliated with al qaida were operating in syria all visibly vasily on the side of the rebels and fuel 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 all the trends this news has come at the time of the reason volunteers all over syria and dramatic escalation of the events and un has expressed its concern over what's going on here in the country and banking moon has called on all countries with influence on both rebels and 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 u.s. they are concerned for example. the like groups in iraq have moved to syria and are you know likely believed by the u.s. to be behind some of the spectacular bombings and curious attacks in syria on the one hand you have the u.s. saying that they're concerned about the armed opposition and their links to. others on the other hand you have the u.s. providing so-called non-lethal aid to the armed opposition in basically giving

apparently a green light to other countries to arm the opposition so yes there is a contradiction in policy. 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 survey lavrov visit to tehran where the syrian dominated the attend that. 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. now also during his visit russia's foreign minister responded to hillary clinton's claims that moscow supplying syrian

authorities with combat helicopters will artie's lives these counseling have now joins us here to share her insight on those claims lucy take us through the string of these allegations where the claims come from and how did russia's foreign minister respond exactly sure i may as 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 the details in terms of what helicopters the secretary of state was referring to captain john kirby at the pentagon while the famed some surprise take a look. can you provide any details as to what kind of helicopters where they delivered how are they being deliver. i have not seen reporting that indicates. that the russians are providing attack helicopters to the syrians i have just not seen at. 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. post is 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 our eastern european correspondent alexei or seven has the details. one hundred fifty balls have been arrested for attacking the crowd of russian fans and the russians were all sorts acting for providing violent response to the polish attack anyway we understand that those twenty odd russians who have been arrested were going to train in poland will be deported from the country according to the interior ministry and the future they will have problems of training shall get a visa because of all these because of participation in this in this in those rights in a war so now certainly the relations between warsaw the most who 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 websites 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. 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 to more fuel to the fire. well for more on that story my colleague kevin zero in spoke to going forward and former m.e.p. also a member of the anti nazi italy he says anti russia sentiment cultivated in poland played a major role in stirring up tension. 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 that seem to be whipping up these this is a trade center phobia towards russia and towards russian supporters you've got a similar problems in ukraine with the 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 palmer rama in the united kingdom of extreme right wing neo nazi groups doing nazi dissolute where a nazi symbols and the rest it's obviously a difficult territory for us to know mark minority votes it goes out 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 telling europe's biggest festival the football kicks off. just how safe and sometimes we. 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 they're clearly all problems there and those of us who are looking at the gross 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 the latest from here zero twenty twelve online at r.t. dot com including hundreds of comments from football fans in poland were discussing the clashes between rival fans join 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 law 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's wave of antigovernment protests in recent months but michael mcfaul did admit that previous american administrations were behind the overthrow of governments in some post soviet states let's get the latest details from our jacob grebes 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 up says has the u.s. played any role when it comes to. a so-called color revolution in russia now by this 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 the venture 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 a did have some form of action 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 culture revolution that's how some have interpreted what's been going on since the parliamentary elections and 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 obama 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 administration. so you spent a lot 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 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 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 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 and the governments who furious exposing

wrongdoing can preserve 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 better point of my whole life fell apart. lost my career it was because literally when i started getting their 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 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 modern we're still 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 discrete line buried away in the text referring to a public interest test we were really worried that putting in a. 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 will 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 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. which is a very serious one. and whistle blowing he's 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 i was being told i was doing the wrong thing . and yet it felt so right for me and i knew what 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 sarah 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 interview 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 dot us harm. julian assange. has served with three weeks to see these documents united states government being the. united states strongly condemned. illegally shoot the son. with. the can change the world tomorrow. there are new hopes of progress ahead of high level nuclear talks with iran 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 selected powers can dictate the course of the world that the balance of power is shifting into the hands of the people or the fact that some nations seek to retain power through military means that is being rejected. a new. nation some 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 that. meanwhile washington continues to push for further sanctions against

tehran next hour we talked to a mideast expert a rabi who says the ever toughening pressure on iran is driven by israeli threats to strike its nuclear facilities there's a look at what's ahead. i think that put the israeli leadership is doing just to. capitalize on kind of a memento with the sanctions first before in the mind 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 much more strict policy with regard to in order to appease israel this is how israel takes things.

a look now around the world at some other headlines 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 islamist 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 uprising . south sudan's part of the way it has accused seventy five top officials of

corruption with 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 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. stricken now with to meet the the business task and we're near the end of one of this action is looking bad in the u.s. 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 and barely making it to those details for you this hour at the close of the european markets this is the picture we're seeing the fourth year in the dark so flat and mixed at the same

time basically concerns about its allee's bond auction crucial for thursday and also bond yields 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. on the currency markets we're seeing the euro gaining massively against the dollar as of dollars being ditched by investors following this bad retail data in the states meanwhile the ruble managed to gain around half a percent against. and on the russian market scituate is came back after a long weekend we'll look at and says they can first of all the oil prices actually help the russian market at the close they were better than but right now we're seeing them up and down thirty five said basically this is has a singer ahead of an opec summit on thursday in geneva when a decision might be made on changing production was 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 it was 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 russia's government may reduce 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 gaspar almost 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.p.c.

increase by almost four percent this year well bank expects the growth to be mostly supportive of the 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 a republic with a half billion euros already will load which at the time was ten percent of cyprus is three. as oil markets like this sell most of the business of course tomorrow eight twenty am casey will be will be all right we'll see you then thanks for that update on the way peter of the bells debate show cross talk and tonight his guests discuss the recent russian protests that's after the headlines and this short break .

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why from moscow to have vimes kind as 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 didn't kill. his growing condemnation of polish hooligans after they attacked russian football fan story euro twenty twelve in warsaw that led to bloody clashes and the arrests of around hundred fifteen zero. and while julian assange awaits britain's supreme court's decision on whether it will reopen his extradition case the u.k. new bill could prevent potential whistleblowers from speaking out. more on those stories in thirty minutes next on our t.v. it's crosstalk.

wealthy british scientists it's time to cut. markets why not scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports. and if you. still. follow in welcome to cross talk i'm teetotal about moscow streets thousands protested in russia's capital for a wide variety of reasons but one issue nights many of them are against the return of law to mere putin to the presidency do these protests truly reflect public opinion our protests now simply.