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 acknowledged that groups affiliated with al qaida were operating in syria over the bassman 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 u.n. members and from. league members that they're ready to provide the rebels with all kinds of support that everything they need be it money over weapons this news has come at the time of the increase in volunteers all over syria and the dramatic escalation of the events and u.n. has expressed its concern over what's going on here in the country and bank one has called an old 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. but robert naiman 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 and already know that the media even according to the u.s. . they're concerned for example. like groups in iraq and. syria. are you know likely believed by the u.s. to be behind some of the spectacular bombings terrorist attacks in syria on the one hand you have the u.s. saying that they're concerned the armed opposition and their links to. others on the other hand you have u.s. providing so-called non-lethal aid to the armed opposition basically giving apparently a green light to other countries to arm the opposition so yes there is a contradiction there. but american secretary of state hillary clinton has sparked

a war of words with her russian counterpart sergei lavrov after accusing moscow of selling attack helicopters to president assad something not even the pentagon seems to know anything about well. as more on the diplomats fiery 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 started 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 in 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 i have just not seen that that while washington was left to sort out his confusion over the comments russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov was very clear in his denial of those allegations and we sit yes we are currently fulfilling a preexisting signed and paid for contracts for one of these contracts related to defense only and exclusively we do not export to syria or anywhere else for 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 shipment arrived in a certain persian gulf state but 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 report later this hour there's a backlash for president obama's inner circle claims of training national security for political gain leak of classified data. that certain drugs in honor and financial desperation sends increasing numbers into addiction if the government is slowly pulling funds from rehab. the trouble is brewing between a russian opposition newspaper the country's top criminal investigator he reportedly threatened one of the paper's leading reporters over knowledgeable and legend that he took part in a criminal conspiracy with a high profile gang let's get more on this now from our pete on of. the vibe is yet

a newspaper is well known for its criticism of the russian government so what's it trying to reveal now. well the heads of no because yet it to me to you after all wrote in a editorial piece saying that one of his journalist surrogates so-called had been taken to the woods in moscow and threatened on the orders of the chairman of the investigative committee alexander is that i can tell this all stems from a opinion piece that was written by coauthored which he made a series of very serious allegations against the strike and now following that there was a confrontation in southern russia between the two of them after that confrontation sokolove issued a formal apology now the journalist is currently outside of russia and his editor says that circle of safety is all the newspaper care about and they are on to any kind of witch hunt against the investigative committee or its chairman.

we might have certain proof but you've got to understand we want our journalist safety to be assured destruction to be fired that's why my letter isn't confrontational that's why it doesn't contain all the things the side calling. other than this letter we say you have threatened the life of our 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're also prone to emotions things happen we apologized for that if circle of is able to come home with safety guarantees from colonel general bus three can 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 the deadline specified by law we can process no response charges. well the editorial prompted protests by journalists outside the headquarters of the

investigative committee and the journalist union here in russia has said that they are giving their full backing to the the journalist and paper concerned no matter what the outcome of these allegations as it stands no formal charges have been brought against the investigative committee or alexander steichen nor has there been any official statements concerning these allegations but the investigative committee was set up in two thousand and eleven by then president dmitri medvedev to work in a similar way in which the the f.b.i. works in the united states the group the organization the investigative committee reports directly to the president of russia. paper all of that thanks for that. but r.t. dot com we've got the world at your fingertips here's what some are online videos today and the beautiful game turns into another event as russian fans that you are

twenty twelve and also a polish conclusions. person most americans agree that the best way to their top forty is direct democratic vote they want texan city it seemed to throw the dice is enough. egypt could be sliding back into emergency rule after the government restored rights to the army to detain civilians and muslim brotherhood is warning that the move without them but it sure tighter grip on control even after this weekend's runoff presidential election one group fairs is the most domination even more egypt's women believe it will send the country back to the dark ages one of three 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 wilson is for the equality states or 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 have 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 percent 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 recently died my husband doesn't give me any money and he treats me barry badly. after a brutal cream is hoping the courts rule in her favor even if their means she'll be out on the streets 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 relief and. the full equality of women. and anything that undermined that for. him because it is the handedness.

in the road to progress to the end so why don't we 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 lacks a constitution and the next hour here in r.t. we 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 and 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 the margaret procedures if there is no transparency in the way it's put. project seen as a president cristina fernandez de kirchner will lay out her country's claim to the falkland islands a u.n. meeting in new york this thursday it takes place thirty years to the day after the war of the british territory and it decades on ownership disputed by down will hold a referendum next year this side the future tina says the british illegally occupied the falklands which it calls an obvious almost two hundred years ago nine hundred people died in one thousand nine hundred conflict now and in the same forgotten high level posturing political analyst martina kohli says it's the

lucrative oil reserves on. the falklands coast that's fueling the dispute. it's if you like a signal to one's art is that the focus is or is the argentinians call them last month venus which just a 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 is the argentina government is using very very strong language 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. do claim is a very simple one but argentina is concerned about structure it's good so they all of. which lie under the water there the idea to use of the school would. probably go you know in argentina but it's possible that the extended right through to the

falklands and british companies or prospecting for years around the falklands 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 is what 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 but he's america could pay a very high price for the. 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 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. when other u.s. drone strike has hit pakistan after four militants have reportedly been killed in the northwest in the latest air strike security officials have said the drone fired two missiles at a vehicle ten days ago an air strike in the same region which is seen as a taliban stronghold left fifteen al qaeda terrorists dead including

a senior figure. yemen's government says it's working to seize a third term from al qaeda after days of airstrikes and clashes in the country south militants took control of several areas a year ago and the army has successfully retaken some strongholds seventeen or qaeda members were killed in the latest phase of the operation to seen as a major success for yemen's president. and the firefighters are battling a massive wildfire in northern colorado led to the death of a sixty two year old woman a hot dry weather and changing winds are hampering their efforts with scores of people evacuated from the area thousands of homes are still threatened and emergency crews are expected to be fighting the place for weeks to come. times are tough in ireland and for increasing numbers of people in dublin that means a descent into addiction drug abuse centers in the city say they're seeing more addicks coming through their doors but as the horror smith reports the cash

strapped government is not so keen to pay for their rehab. it's a tale of two cities a happy go lucky dublin where locals and tourists shop drink and make mary rubbing shoulders with the seedy underbelly telamon blocks where the poor struggle to make ends meet and drug workers estimate one person in sixty takes heroin tony gagan runs a needle exchange and rehab program where he sees marginalized people who take a cocktail of drugs leading often to crime and recessions making it worst he's seeing eleven new people a week. and. more reports. of. drugs and crime and knoll not his real name is recovering from

years of drug addiction his is a story of economic privation and boredom leading to drugs and the breakdown of relationships with family friends and community. know 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 in drop incenses needle exchanges seventeen week residential course it's none of that is cheap to run and despite increasing numbers of addicts desperate to get the drug and rehab center of the seeing their government funding for every year state drug program

contributions are being slashed by ten percent a year and for the. 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 and less likely to get the become tomorrow's to say no point in even trying i'm never going to do it so having access to treatment programs to my mind is vitally in this fight against drugs. programs in our lives or hopelessly inadequate and as the recession boy even harder they won't get any better with disastrous consequences for addicts for communities and for society laura smith r.t. . that story katie on the business desk say more pain for spain and even cyprus now we understand yeah that's right carrie moody's has slashed its rating on spec by three notches that was on wednesday leaving a just one note above that junk status level now the rating agency says the new

plan where the hundred billion euros to shore up the spanish banks would increase the country's debt burden last the reasoning behind it and it's not yet the bottom spain's raising could dive deeper and that there's concerns are mounting the economy has trouble raising cash on the international debt markets now moody's has also cut its rating on cyprus as you say by two notches citing the brics it the risk and fiscal problems in that country or are this the whole the asian markets are responding to those downgrades and in their session they're alive and kicking today we got the nikkei down just a notch just now on the high and sang a half a percent in negative territory now they're also reacting to credit suisse reducing the outlook for china i want the biggest headline is today is the spirit most of it sells they get from europe and they plunged eleven percent the biggest ball in

fifteen years on the close. well we've got some red daggers to look at that soft retail sales domestically really failed to impress the overriding theme of course is indeed europe we had industrial figures come out yesterday for the whole region declining germany leading the way there we had an attorney and bond auction as well that's still boring close and today we've got another one lined up as well so i'll be head of the agenda dow jones six tenth's of percent seven tenth's of percent down for the nasdaq all right in the bearish mood towards a common currency can change but it is rising have a slightly that can be put down to the weak economic data coming out of the u.s. but caution it remains we've got one twenty five eighty to the ruble moving again in less than an hour's time when the russian markets open up for business so let's see how they close up yesterday we had oil declining to an eight month low but we

still had some gains on the russian market so much because investors here return to their desks the public holidays they're playing catch up comments from the deputy prime minister of how they talk about it as saying about the tax burden saying that they're going to try and alleviate these somewhat on some of the companies because of all the political term all this stuff and debt crisis going on in the roads and affecting those oil prices although gas probably won't be exempt from them because it's largely believed that they're undertaxed or let's say the oil prices and shall wait you'll see that the price is they are low and they're declining sixteen percent now on the economic details from the eurozone and i keep saying it but it does really affect brit about everything right now we've also got opec as well meeting today they're going to talk about their quotas for the rest of the year how much production they're going to improve so i should say they are gaining but the prices that's what i'm talking about they remain. like all right then i'll be back in about fifteen minutes and kerry for the figures for the russian market ok thanks

again for that update. well now at coming up expert opinion on what the future holds for debt ridden europe for us there a recap of our top stories. news .

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what you got the headlines out france would ask the u.n. to open up syria skies for western bombers and other broadside on the assad regime number two endorses the rebellion. a sinister walk in the woods with an infuriated general how an opposition journalist claims that led to a showdown with russia's top investigator it went on fickle accusing him of my feelings. and the gyptian relief of the end of a thirty year marriage and see rudy short lives as authorities again allow the army to detain civilians at a presidential election runoff the country's women who fear the worst. were next spotlights a program i think it says in on the vision for europe as seen by its chief economic powerhouse germany.

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