not 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 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 with everything they need the money over weapons this news has come at the time of the increase in violence 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 banki 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. of all but name and from the american campaign group just foreign policy

believes there's a contradiction between u.s. support of the rebels and its recognition that there is fighting among them. but i already know that the and even according to the us. there are concerns that we have all. like groups in iraq have moved to syria and are you know likely believed by the us to be behind some of the spectacular bombings and terrorist attacks in syria on the one hand you have the u.s. saying that they are concerned about the armed opposition and their links to. jihad is on the other hand you have us providing so-called non-lethal aid to the armed opposition and be sickly giving apparently a green light to other countries to arm the opposition so yes there is

a contradiction in policy. but american secular state hillary clinton sparked a war of words with her russian counterpart sergey lavrov after accusing moscow of setting attack helicopters to present that machines that not even the pentagon seem to know anything about what is it has more on the diplomats foreign exchange. 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 and we are concerned about the latest information we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from russia to syria now washington

seem to be caught off guard by a secretary of state hillary clinton's remarks which stumped even the pentagon's own spokesman can you provide any details as to what kind of helicopters where they 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 that while washington was left to sort out its confusion over the comments russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov was very clear in his denial of those allegations that u.s. we are currently fulfilling a preexisting looks signed and paid for contract one of these contracts related to the defense only and exclusively we do not export to syria or anywhere else anything that could be used against peaceful demonstrators because you believe that's markedly different to the united states which regularly ships such weapons to the region just recently one such ship in the right in

a certain persian gulf state for some reason the u.s. considers this normal and we knew it was over now russian attack helicopters are in hot demand right now and that's because the u.s. pentagon spends millions to buy russian made seventeen's on behalf of the afghan air force. well keeping a sensitive secret seems to be tough for washington mandarins as we reported later this hour it's a natural process of. claims of trading national security for political gain and that leak of classified data. and drugs in financial desperation sends increasing numbers into addiction government is slowly pulling funds from rehab. the trouble is brewing between a russian opposition newspaper and the country's top criminal investigator he reportedly threatened one of the paper's leading reporters or an article alleging that he took part in a criminal conspiracy with

a high profile gang let's get more on this now from our peter. peter the learned is that a newspaper is known for its controversial anti government publications or was it trying to hone in on the. well known view. wrote an editorial in which he says that one of his journalists was abducted on the orders of alexander to strike in the chairman of the investigative committee here in russia taken to woods in moscow where his life was threatened now these events are supposed to have taken place a few weeks ago it all stems but to an opinion piece that was written in which he made a series of very serious allegations against him as well as other senior figures in russia for what she later apologized has since left the country. says it's the journalist safety is all that the newspaper care about and they aren't on any kind of witch hunt against the investigative committee all this

strike and. this we might have certain proof but you've got to understand we want our journalists safety to be assured destruction to be fired that's why my letter isn't confrontational. it doesn't contain all the things the side call each other in this letter we say you have threatened the life of your employee it may well be because of emotions due to stress but we didn't get a proper explanation in face to face meetings that's why we delayed publishing this letter for so long we wanted to settle this thing peacefully in a human way obviously we are also prone to emotions things happen because we apologize for that if circle of his able to come home with safety guarantees from f.s.b. colonel general must think you know we're happy with that i don't fight for anything else not some kind of public benefit but if the response to my letter doesn't come within a deadline specified by law we can cross no response charges could. well

the editorial from protests from journalists outside the headquarters of the investigative committee and the journalist union here in russia has also given its support to the newspaper whatever the outcome comes of this as it stands neither the investigative committee nor alexander mistaken its chairman of had any formal charges leveled against them neither of the investigative committee released any statements regarding these allegations now the committee itself was formed in two thousand and eleven by then president dmitri made get it to serve in a similar role as the the f.b.i. does in the united states and the committee reports directly to the president here in russia. he thought of that thanks for now. when i thought he dot com we've got the well at your fingertips has what some online videos today when traditional game turns into an ugly event as russian fans

at euro twenty twelve also are attacked by punish hardcore hooligans. and the risks of using your mobile phone are exposed as a dangerous dating application gets taken down. egypt could be sliding back into emergency rule after the government restored rights to the army to detain civilians the muslim brotherhood is warning that the move would add other military a tighter grip on control even after this weekend's runoff presidential election one hundred fears is the most control even more egypt's women they believe it will send the country back to the dark ages as closely in our reports. she's young and ambitious and planning to become egypt's next president but she needs to wait ten

years until she turn forty so she can run not for the sake of you know winnings a seat or so but for the sake of proving that egyptian women can do it but they're not doing it at the moment this woman trying to run for president this time around and couldn't even get the fifty thousand signatures to qualify our it would usually is for the equality for the freedom for their dignity and when this value those values when success we can see a woman president but with radical islam on the rise and the muslim brotherhood's candidate making it to the presidential runoff the fact that women played an important role in the demonstrations that brought down mubarak doesn't mean much the number of women in the egyptian parliament has fallen from twelve percent before the revolution to just two percentage now and that's despite the fact that some fifty one percent of egypt is female noticeably absent from the presidential election campaign trails was the issue of women rights and women equality leaving

many egyptian women to fear that in the post mubarak period their lives will get worse afaf cream has been trying for five years to divorce her husband but divorce is tough to achieve and with an islamic influence it will only get tougher i don't want to go out of a deep i don't mind giving up all my financial rights even the money left to me by my father who is me died my husband doesn't give me any money and he treats me very badly. after a brutal cream is hoping the courts rule in her favor even if they mean she'll be on the street with nothing but she wants the judge to decide soon before hardcore islamised get into power and human rights activists like dr side i bring him are worried the future of the recent. poor old woman. the full equality of women. and anything that

undermined that for. him because it is the handedness. on the road. to ford and so widely and might be inspiring her generation and she's received awards from around the globe for her fearlessness in tweeting and blogging about the revolution more and more people are asking if it's possible that the revolution that was supposed to liberate its people might just land up in slaving at least a part of it policy r.t. cairo. egypt is about to decide who will have the state's top job but still that's a constitution in about fifteen minutes here in r.t. we'll hear from an expert on how that's affecting the path to democracy. we were told oh no just we are going to solve the problem with the presidential election that's not going to happen and look at what is happening now so we have even people saying we have to stop the whole the process because even the fact that we have someone who is representing the all regime they should be how come then be still be

here where they were saying that we need to put in the constitution that the people who are from the old regime cannot present themselves for the next ten years but you cannot come with this because it's not in the constitution and constitution is going to be written after the election it's a mess it's not there is no transparency and how can you speak about democracy procedures if there is no transparency in the way it's put. argentina's the president cristina fernandez de kirchner were they out countries claim to the falkland islands the un meeting in new york state takes place thirty years to the day after the war of the british territory ended with decades on the dispute has not died down u.k. spending referendum on it next year argentina says the british illegally occupied islands which it calls about venus and two hundred years ago one hundred people died in one thousand nine hundred conflict say they're being forgotten among the

high level posturing of political analyst martin mccauley says it's the. liquid have oil reserves off the falklands coast that's fueling the dispute. if you like a signal to one's art is that the focus is or is the argentinians call them last month when those wish to stay part of britain and don't wish to become a province of argentina if you look at the language which is coming from what is are it's the argentina government is using very very strong language and some people might say threats about security of the falkland islands the falklands have been claimed by train britain france and even the dutch and the i.g. to claim is very soon one but argentina is concerned about structure it's going to be all of. which lie under the water there the idea to use of discovered. you know it is possible to extend right through to the falklands.

british companies or prospecting for the wrong to foreclose so if they find. that makes it. strategically and economically very very important and. of course very very wealthy. in the u.s. several classified documents revealing the obama administration's achievements in battling terrorism have recently been leaked to the american media the white house in the firing line for jeopardizing national security the sake of the president's political gain one former foreign service officer at the state department believes america could pay a very high price for leaks. leaking information it papers you is not unique to obama i think what's unique here are two things first the secrecy of these infor of this information the stuxnet worm the things that are going on in iran this raid that killed bin ladin information came out in those instances that was beyond top

secret and was known to bury people and that's something new coupled with obama's aggressive persecution of whistleblowers his use of the espionage act that's the other side of this story and that's the other thing that's unique in this case obama's ratings go up he watches the polls very carefully they put out this information that he practically does these things himself with his bloody hands and his popularity goes up this is about a president who believes that he alone turbans right peron he alone can decide what information may damage and united states and what information he needs to brag about for his own purposes just as he alone apparently decides who lives and who dies under america's drones. well another u.s. drone strike has hit pakistan of the four militants have reportedly been killed in northwest in the latest airstrike i would say the drone fired two missiles at a local market but no word on any civilian casualties trouble villagers are now

searching for survivors ten days ago an air strike in the same region which is seen as a taliban stronghold left fifteen are kind of terrorists dead including a senior figure. yemen's government says it's working to seize a third town from al-qaeda after days of airstrikes and clashes in the country's south militants took control of several areas a year ago but the army has successfully retaken some strongholds seventeen al qaeda members were killed in the latest phase of the operation which is seen as a major success for gammons new president. robert gates are battling a massive wildfire in northern colorado that's killed a sixty two year old woman in the hot dry weather and changing winds and printed efforts scores of people are being evacuated from the area thousands of homes are still threatened and firefighters are expected to battle the blaze for seven weeks . when the times are tough in the island and for increasing numbers of people in

dublin that means a descent into addiction drug abuse centers end up in seeing more people come through their doors but more smith reports the cash strapped the government is not so keen to pay up to get them clean. it's a tale of two cities a happy go lucky dublin where locals and tourists shop drink and make merry rubbing shoulders with this seedy underbelly tenement blocks where the poor struggle to make ends meet and drug workers estimate one person in sixty takes heroin twenty gagan runs a needle exchange and rehab program where he sees marginalized people who take a cocktail of drugs often to cry and recessions making it. worst he's seeing eleven new people a week when people have less disposable income and can't find work or can't find you know. more recourse. you

know. takes off on people you know it's a two way street between drugs and crime and nolde not his real name is recovering from years of drug addiction he says a story of economic privation and boredom leading to drugs and the breakdown of relationships with family friends and community with. two sisters. over the. last two were. no did everything except heroin finding his brother dead from an overdose as a teenager saw to that he's in a four month rehab program partly funded at least for now by the state isn't getting any easier for the people who run vital drug programs. drop incenses needle exchanges seventeen week residential courses none of that is cheap to run and

despite increasing numbers of addict desperate to get the drug and rehab center the seeing their government funding for every year state drug program contributions are being slashed by ten percent a year and for the met varies drop in center for the homeless waiting lists a growing from a few days to weeks or months he says addicts need immediate attention something they're less than less likely to get the. no point even trying i'm never going to do it so having access to treatment programs to my mind is vital if in this fight against drugs. programs and. hopelessly inadequate and as the recession bites. even harder they won't get any better with disastrous consequences for addicts for communities and for society laura smith r.t. . that story on the business. pain for spain and even

cyprus now yeah exactly that so because of mood is they slashed its rating on spain firstly by three notches that happened on wednesday leaving it just one notch above junk status now the rating agency says that the new e.u. plan worth up to one hundred billion euros will indeed shore up the banks but it will increase the country's debt burden and that's a reason behind it and it's not the bottom because spain's raising could dive even deeper and that's as concerns are mounting that the economy has troubles raising cash on the international debt markets now moody's has also cut its rating on cyprus as i say by two not which is so i say regrets that risk fiscal problems in the country are let's see how the asian markets are responding to all of this and then they are indeed retracing retreating said i saying a lot of that is on the downgrade news also credit suisse has it reduced its

outlook for the chinese economy as well on the one of the biggest losers as well is the spirit it's a clothing company and it gets most of its cells from europe you see and it's plunged eleven percent that's its biggest fall in fifteen years as you can see the nikkei around certain types of descent down the hang six tenths of a percent in negative territory this is going to u.s. markets we see that retreat took place there as well of wall street and that was after we. came out domestically international data was taking its toll well we had an italian bond auction happening at a guess today that didn't go too well of tall also industrial production for the whole euro area was actually a real disappointment and it was led by germany the biggest manufacturer in europe . we've also got another. investors really focusing their attentions on now that was a close in figures for wall street as you can see the dow jones six percent down and seven for the nasdaq let's have

a look at how the dollar is getting on with all those sentiments playing in to the common current state as it's one twenty five is gaining because of those poor data releases coming out of the u.s. but the situation in europe is keeping it from a rally and investors over my bearish. also looking at the ruble that was the closing figures for yesterday it will start moving in shaky in just under two hours time in the russian markets and that brings us on to the closing figures for the russian markets we'll check those out. there you are if i didn't know much of that is because the investors here are playing catch up because they returned. from a two day public holiday. season painted. are anticipating also want to mention oil because it's now heading towards an eight month low and that directly affects the russian markets also wanted to mention comments made by the deputy prime minister. yesterday saying that they're going to plan to ease up on these tax burdens on the oil and gas companies because it will be international

pressure is taking. the oil prices and. we must say as well that natural gas accounts for fifty percent of the for two thousand and eleven and away for the revenue. how important is. meeting today as well that could be talking about the quotas for production for the rest of the year it is believed to be unchanged but all eyes will focus on that today we'll see if the prices have an impact as you can see they are gaining but look at the prices remain . about fifty minutes with. many thanks casey. now in minutes. another look at this hour's headlines famous.

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this is r t the headlines for you now france will ask the u.n. to open up syria's skies for western governments in another broadside on assad's regime caritas number two endorses the rebellion. a sinister in the woods and infuriated general opposition journalists claims led to a showdown russia's top investigator over non-school accusing him of my feelings. gyptian relief over the end of thirty year emergency rule a short lived as authorities again allow the army to detain civilians at the presidential election runoff the country's women fear the worst. with egypt that's a crossroads for its future welty now talks to a renowned middle east academic about how the arab spring saga will pan out.

tariq ramadan you're a professor at contemporary slavic studies oxford university and also you are a professor at the faculty of the stomach studies in qatar and it's great to have you with us today sir so i know the situation in north africa and the middle east it's very complex and there are a lot of players involved in it. there's one trend that seems to be undisputed and it's rising and its rise of islamist movement throughout the region could anyone have really predicted that kind of an outcome and even the pro-democracy protesters or the rebels did they know that this would happen i think that we if we want to talk about the whole should.