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 on the side of the rebels and 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 are ready to provide the rebels with all kinds of support that everything they need the money over weapons this news has come at the time of the increase in volumes all over syria and dramatic escalation of the events and the u.n. 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 the syrian government to call on all parties to lay down arms and to pull back as he put it from the

brink. russian foreign minister has condemned some countries demands that moscow puts pressure on the ousted regime to stop violence in syria insisting that pressure must be applied to both sides in the conflict but the comments came during circle of rove's visit to tehran where the syrian issue dominated the agenda. everyone should stop the violence in syria if a part of the international community understands kofi announced plans 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. also during his visit russia's foreign minister responded to hillary clinton's claims that moscow supplying the syrian authorities with combat helicopters artie's lucy calf enough has more. while the top top u.n.

official may have labeled the syrian conflict a full fledged civil war according to the u.s. secretary of state russia could actually be to blame for the escalating crisis secretary of state hillary clinton to raise some eyebrows and stirred some diplomatic controversy on tuesday when she insisted that russian attack helicopters were on their way to syria 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 washington seemed to be caught off guard by

a secretary of state hillary clinton's remarks in which stumped even the pentagon's own spokesman when asked to explain exactly what types of helicopters the secretary of state was referring to captain john kirby well was a bit surprised to take a look. can you provide any details as to what kind of helicopters were the power of the. i have not seen reporting that indicates. that the russians are providing attack helicopters to the syrians i have just not seen that. now while washington was left to sort out as confusion over the comments russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov was very clear in his denial of those allegations now moscow does have a long standing military relationship with damascus but as lover of explained at a press conference in iran on wednesday the any sales are for filling preexisting contracts comply fully with international law and are for defensive purposes only now russian attack helicopters are in hot demand right now and that's because the

us pentagon spends millions to buy russian made and my seven teens on behalf of the afghan air force. poland interior ministry is calling for the severe punishment of hooligans involved in bloody clashes with russian football supporters in warsaw before the two countries euro twenty twelve showdown violence continued after the match too with poland's ambassador to russia saying the whole there's founds are to blame for the turmoil that resulted in multiple injuries are eastern european the correspondent. has the details. 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 we understand that for now two almost two hundred fans have been detained by the authorities one hundred fifty of them are polish twenty

russian fans who want to buy this attack they're also been detained and they will be deported from the country and definitely their relations with 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 generally the relations between warsaw and moscow have improved greatly same slot say twenty years ago but clearly there are some political forces in poland was still interested in inciting hatred between russia and poland was a something of a sentiment on the message boards in poland on the internet that russian fans must pay for their violent clash with two words during the first game and brought up one russia beat the czech republic bogles one we know that russia has already been officially punished for that it is due to pay one hundred twenty thousand euro fine for for the for these actions but some of the polish media have been raising the hype ahead of that game saying equating that match to

a battle of one thousand nine hundred twenty when. the bolsheviks army was outnumbering the polish forces but the polish forces still managed to gain victory and some of the magazines portrayed the polish national coach in a military uniform saying that poland still has to be at the euros and the players i quote must die on the pitch if they need to but need to stop the russians so all this hype certainly added more fuel to the fire. for more on the story my colleague kevin owen spoke to glen ford a former m.e.p. and a member of the anti nazi league he says and to 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 hatred this center phobia towards russia and towards

russian supporters you've got similar problems in ukraine with extreme nationalist neo nazi groups as well and it's led to a situation where from my viewing from afar of the matches 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. well 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 salutes wearing a nazi symbols and the rest it's obviously a difficult territory for us to myanmar 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 the came from the b.b.c. panorama program listening to that minute. eleven days time europe's biggest festival of football kicks off. i am just how safe is

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 i think is probably in between the two frankly i mean clearly our problems flare 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. the great hopes and crushing disappointments of the euro two thousand and twelve championship are being ripped are beginning to reflect i should say europe's financial turmoil that's after markets failed to rebound as much as hoped after spain became the latest country to get a multi billion euro cash injection confidence in the country's financial sector is so weak it could even trigger problems for italy for more now on the eurozone debt

crisis let's now house live to daniel wagner who is c.e.o. of country risk so lucian thanks for being with us first i want to start with greece followed by arland poland now spain at this rate can the euro zone survive and if and if so or if not really how long does that happen. perhaps the question should be do we want it to survive both one of the people currently do i do anything to and how. well right the concept is a good one if it works the question is if it doesn't work are we better off doing something else that really is the question that many people are asking themselves right now a fundamental question which it seems the creators of the euro land didn't really address when they created the eurozone they seem to think about how wonderful everything would be assuming everything worked well and they didn't really think

much about what would happen if it didn't work so well that's really the question that has to be answered now. i'm not predicting the imminent demise of the euro zone on the other hand it seems very clear that there is a precipitous decline and that decline looks to continue for some months to come. george soros has said that the eurozone has only a matter of months to sort itself out so he's very clear on what he believes but he's also said that the ministers european ministers have chosen the wrong path with austerity instead of investment how do you see. i completely agree you know i understand why there was an orientation toward austerity to begin with tighten the belt a little bit and change your ways but there's no way that europe is going to be able to dig itself out of its hole if it doesn't grow so the focus now has to be on program of growth policies and the question becomes are there sufficient resources

to enable europe to grow sufficiently so that it can literally pull itself out of its hole that's a that's the question that i don't really think anybody has the answer to my best guess is that with enough fiscal in center if you will enough printing of the money and enough throwing it down into the hole there will be limited benefit i am doubtful however if at this stage of the game four years down the road after all that money has been shoveled down into what seems like a black hole there there's now going to be enough resources available to to get the job done. and now we're constantly hearing about the banks and the markets the ups the downs how much has the economic instability affected ordinary europeans not only in countries like greece but in germany. there's a direct and indirect effect that's happened both in the countries that are most

affected negatively in the countries that don't feel they've been so affected because your own land is so interconnected and because europe is so connected with the rest of the world you know the effects are really far reaching. you'll ask someone in greece what the impact has been of course the average person across almost every socio economic strata has been so severely impacted their the nature of their lifestyle has been impacted that hasn't necessarily been the case in some of the wealthier european countries but it may not be too long before that kind of an impact. what we're facing now is a situation where fringe political movements are on the rise if they get into power their ability to govern effectively is going to be extremely limited that in turn will affect how everybody lives and every government's ability to get the job done and we're even hearing rumors of officials discussing plans to limit withdrawals

from cash machine machines per se out of imposing border controls the green what effect would these kind of policies and how much do you think they're connected with those friends parties that you were just talking about. when i think there's a definitive connection with the perception of what these fringe political movements imply what spain's actions this past week imply about what's going on in europe in general it's a question of perception and the perception is that europe is progressively getting worse and that the you know the real end of the story is a possible breakup of the european union if that is the case then it's not so far fledged that people would need to consider whether the amount that can be withdrawn from an a.t.m. needs to be restricted but at the same token where do you stop where do you stop do

you limit the amount of food someone can buy at a grocery store do you limit the amount of petrol they can buy at a petrol station you know these are some of the questions that the policymakers are now going to have to grapple with because as the perception gets worse and i do believe the perception will get worse about what's in store for europe these types of questions don't become fiction they become reality and it feeds upon itself and that's really is the greatest fear is that the perception will feed upon itself and make itself a self-fulfilling prophecy. daniel wagner live with us on the line from new york thank you very much for your analysis. but our t.v. dot com today we have much more on the euro twenty twelve for you. that includes hundreds of comments from football fans in poland towards the crossing both clashes were reporting on earlier 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 long against online trolling being adopted detail at r t v dot com. he was a bastard to russia has denied claims that washington is attempting to stage a revolution in the country the allegations are merge as russia saw a wave of anti-government protests in recent months but michael mcfaul did mit the previous american administration supported the overthrow of governments in some post soviet states according to interfax news agency says jacob grieves brings us details. for made this statement twenty years fielded a question in moscow by

a group of students now they are asked if the u.s. has played any role when it comes to aiding a so-called color revolution in russia now called revolution is a term that refers to what's happened in some of the former soviet republics such as ukraine and georgia you had the odor of illusion for two thousand and five match demonstrations that eventually led to. go 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. in this they were behaving from michael mcfaul from his reply he's saying that yes the u.s. did have a hand to play in what proceeded during that time in russia with the recent protests we see 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 still going on today there's also been speculation the u.s. has been backing some of these members of the protest groups financially market for strenuously denied that the code of bombing of ministrations played any role when it comes that aiding the current opposition white ribbon movement you may expect that because he is serving kurds administration. we can at least founder julian assange is awaiting a decision from britain's supreme court over his request to reopen his extradition case it comes to weeks after he lost a previous appeal against being handed over to authorities in sweden where he's wanted for questioning about sex crime allegations such as lawyers claim the european arrest warrant was invalid because that was issued by a prosecutor and not a judge or a court. required by u.k. law if this motion is rejected as sancia 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 is just a step toward sending him to the u.s. for prosecution. on charges of espionage. now we are closely following the twists and turns of the scandal and we'll bring you any reaction on the story as soon as we get it you can also find out more on the song stories we're running at our dot com. a look now at some other stories from around the world 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 she is cities al-qaeda affiliated islamist militants often attempt to stoke sectarian tensions by attacking shia pilgrims. ousted tunisian president ben ali has been sentenced and

absentee of twenty years jailed by a military court in the country has been found guilty of a murder 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 was overthrown 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 declared independence almost a year ago with the country suffering from mass corruption and poverty. on the back with the headlines in a few minutes meanwhile can the heightened tensions in the mideast be to all out war in the region as really a political expert was the robert shares his views now on how the situation is

likely to develop that's next. with me i have professor was involved be the director of the center for middle eastern studies at tel aviv university professor thank you very much for joining us here on r.t.

my pleasure the israeli defense minister who recently said that israel would not be duped over negotiations regarding iran's nuclear program do you think that sanctions have been effective here i think since the implementation of this we have sanctions a couple of months ago i think the progress so i think that what the message is pretty clear in two thousand and twelve we are having a different ball game. and iran is realizing that if it is not going to comply it would be very pricey for iran if iran is beginning to feel the pinch why are we still hearing from the israeli leadership i think that the israeli leadership is doing just to. capitalize on kind of a man too with the sanctions first of all in the mind of many israelis especially those leaders you're talking about the implementation of sanctions it's

kind of a byproduct of an israeli pressure. so it's because israel actually threatened. to militarily attack iran. this was all forced the european union and the americans especially the americans to come up with a march whorl a strict policy with regard to iran in order to appease israel this is how israel takes things now since obama. and the american ministration would not like the idea of having kind of an imbroglio in the middle east before november i think that what obama did with the swift sanctions is on the one to tell israel we are on board and you should just set aside now actually and we are going to dictate the rhythm with regard to iran on the other hand there was a message which mean there was sent to iran that it's going to be very pricey so

basically it could cut either ways but i think that what we stand now is kind of a stale me but the last just one more note i think that what the iranians are doing and this is very very typical of their diplomacy they are trying to drive a wedge between the israelis and the americans between the americans and the europeans by coming up with those notions as to say yes so we would like to actually listen carefully to what you all for we have offers on our side is that enough to satisfy the israeli leadership or could we still see as well as attacking iran i think it is unlikely. first of all i'm pretty sure that until november nothing will happen in that regards. and even after november we are going to have the same problem there are many now let us say figures or public figures like the former head of the mossad and others who are coming up with kind of

a contra argument the final analysis of which at the bottom one of which is at the least this time this is not the think israel should come up with don't talk actually about military solution if the summary unfolded that israel attacked iran there are nations that would help iran acquire a nuclear weapon is that a realistic scenario yeah i mean in a way that could be kind of a scenario that we're going to have or see there but i would say that the problem with a nuclear iran is not that iran is going to the story israel i do not believe in but. it would be kind of a source of inspiration for a nuclear iran. for many radical groups in the region. to start to actually act in a different manner and now when they have kind of a nuclear backup this is the thing so i'm not sure that the game is i mean no the main issue is in the question as you put it i think that what we have

here is kind of psychological. moving across to so it is all has been surprisingly quiet and inactive in terms of developments there is it because time is on is all signed all because it does not want to see of regime change there well i think there's there is pretty confused about that this is kind of a multi-ethnic multi-religious. linguistic state. a state which is comprised of many. different. religious and ethnic types and this is a state that could easily become what we call failed state which means a state that cannot control over all the territory and more often than not you have some flanks or regions that are becoming kind of a no man's land we have had that in libya ready after the toppling down of gadhafi we do see that in sinai. and other radical groups are capitalizing on that kind of

situation and really you have a weak central state and this is exactly kind of a byproduct of the toppling of the dictator or we going to have a bunch of power centers so it seems to be more concerned with turkey than with his well how can syria be so sure that israel won't take advantage of its weakening i don't think there is a would take an advantage because in that sense because you know what the israel had had when it. in for the twentieth century i mean the closing their gates of a twentieth century is a quite silent golan heights or border with syria. i think that israel is a spectator israel cannot influence or do something with the ever changing region no top of the arab spring. as i said before i think is what is confused it is or has just come up with kind of a strategy or at least the set of tactics of how to deal with this new situation

basically it is becoming much more difficult middle east for israel because egypt and turkey one friendly and staunch supporter supporters of israel in the west in the region are not there anymore professor b. thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. thank you. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you. are welcome is a big picture. it's

one thirty am in moscow beason the top stories from our city. number two voices his backing for syrian rebels over there finding the government in a new video released a week after washington claimed he didn't kill. his growing condemnation of polish will begin saturday attack russian football fans you're over twenty twelve more saw it led to bloody clashes wrapped around one hundred fifteen zero. now until you know saunter awaits britain's supreme court's decision on whether it will reopen his extradition case the u.k. mulls a new bill that could prevent potential whistleblowers from speaking. next here in our peter the balun his panel of gas discuss the latest protest rallies in moscow

it's crossed. hello and welcome across town peter little mosque on the streets thousands protested in russia's capital for a wide variety of reasons but one issue nights many of them they are against the return of law to mere putin to the presidency do these protests truly were.