national 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 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 you and members and from. members that they are ready to provide the rebels with all kinds of support but everything they need be money all weapons 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 of the syrian government to call on all parties to lay down arms and to pull back as he put it from the brink. robert 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 al qaida is fighting amongst them. but i already know that the you need according to the us. they are concerned for example. 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 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 u.s. providing so-called non-lethal aid to the armed opposition be sickly giving apparently a green light to other countries to arm the opposition so yes there is a contradiction in policy. for american secular state hillary clinton has sparked

a war of words with a russian counterpart sergey lavrov off accusing moscow of selling attack helicopters to present asset something that even the pentagon seems to know about. has 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 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 now 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 a contract for one of these contracts related to 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 shipment arrived in a certain persian gulf state for some reason the u.s. considers this normal we knew it was now russian attack helicopters are in hot

demand right now that's because the u.s. pentagon spends millions to buy russian made seventeen's on behalf of the afghan air force. keeping a sensitive secret this. seems to be tough the washington mandarins report later this hour there's a backlash for president obama's inner circle claims of trading national security for political gain allowing the leak of classified data. plus debts and drugs in ireland financial desperation sends increasing numbers into addiction that the government is slowly pulling funds from rehab. trouble is brewing between a russian opposition newspaper and the country's top a criminal investigator reportedly threatened one of the paper's leading reporters over an article it edging that he took part in a criminal conspiracy with a high profile gang over marty's piece of. well the head of navi it is the to me to move out told has published a editorial in which he says one of his journalists. was taken towards

a moscow and threatened with his life by his legs on that the strike and the chairman of the investigative committee now this all stems from an opinion piece that was written by circle of which he made a series of very serious allegations about mistaken concerning links to all good night crime in southern russia now this was followed up by a public confrontation between the two following which. issued a formal apology now the journalist has left russia and his editor says that cycle of safety is the only concern of the newspaper and that it is not on a witch hunt. that we might have certain proof but you've got to understand we want our journalists safety to be assured not distracting to be fired that's why my letter isn't confrontational that's why 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 well the editorial problem to protests by journalists outside the headquarters of

the investigative committee those journalists saying that they will stand by the newspaper under its journalists whatever the outcome from these allegations now as it stands no formal charges being brought against the investigative committee or its chairman alexander at the strike and we've also heard no statement from the investigative committee regarding these allegations the investigative committee was established in two thousand and eleven by then president dmitri medvedev reported directly to the presidents of russia so we now have to wait and see what the response to these allegations will be from the committee. but r.t. dot com we've got the world at your fingertips among our online videos today when the beautiful game turns into an ugly event as russian fans at euro twenty twelve attacked by polish odds. well so most americans agree that the best way to adapt to forces is

a direct democratic vote but i won texas city it seems to throw the dice maybe the . 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 allow the military a tighter grip on control even after this weekend's runoff presidential election but one group fares is the most domination even more egypt's women believe it will send the country back to the dark ages as policy reports. she's young and ambitious and planning to become egypt's next president but she needs to wait ten years until she turned for she so she can run not for the sake of you know winning the 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 evolution 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 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 egyptians women to fear that in the past month. a period their lives will get worse a fast added l. creme has been trying for five years to divorce her husband but divorce is tough to

achieve and within islamic influence it will only get tougher i don't want to go out of a deep i don't mind giving up on a financial right even the money left to me by my father who recently died my husband doesn't give me our children any money and he treats me very badly. after a bit cream is hoping the courts rule in her favor even if that means she'll be out on the street with nothing but she wants the judge to decide soon before hardcore islamists get into power and human rights activists like dr side i bring him are worried the future of in the country. to the role of women. the full equality of women. living in that. undermine their for. him because it is the hamburgers. in the road to progress to for them and so what dion might be inspiring her

generation and she's received awards from around the globe for her feel is missing 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. for egypt is about to decide who will have the state's top job but still lacks a constitution and later this hour here in r.t. we hear from an expert on how that's affecting the path to democracy. we're 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 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 president cristina fernandez de kirchner will lay out countries claim to the falkland islands un meeting in new york state it takes place thirty years to the day after the war over the british territory ended decades on the dispute has died down islanders will hold a referendum next year to decide their future. as the british occupied the falklands which it calls them out almost two hundred years ago nine hundred people died in one hundred eighty two conflict i didn't say that being forgotten among all the high level posturing political analyst martin mccauley says it's the lucrative oil reserves off the falklands coast that's fueling the dispute. it's if you like

a signal. that the focus is always argentineans call them last month venus 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 is the argentinian government is using very very strong language some people might say threads about security of the falkland islands the falklands. or claimed by train britain france and even the dutch the igitur claim is very soon one but argentina is concerned about structure. which lie under the water of the ideas of the school with the. possible right through to the falklands. british companies are prospecting for the wrong to fall. so easily find.

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 i've recently been leaked to the american media is put 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 high price for leaks. leaking information that paper's you is not unique to obama i think what's unique you are two things first the secrecy of these infor of this information the stuxnet worm the things that are going on in iran bush the raid that killed bin a lot of information came out in those instances that was beyond top secret and was known to very few people and that's something new coupled with the almost aggression persecution of whistleblowers if 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 its popularity goes up this is about a president who believes that he'll blow it turns right or wrong he alone can decide what information may damage united states and what information he needs to brag about his own purposes just as he alone apparently decides who lives and who dies under america's drones. but another u.s. drone strike has hit pakistan after four militants were reportedly killed in northwest the latest attack security officials say the drone fired two missiles i think 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 in this government says it's working to see a third term from al qaeda after days of airstrikes and clashes in the country's

south presence took control of several there is a year ago the army has successfully retaken some of strongholds seventeen al qaida members were killed in latest phase of the operation which is seen as a major success in yemen's president. hundreds of firefighters are battling a massive wildfire in northern colorado and that's the death of a sixty two year old woman in the hot dry weather and changing winds a hampering their efforts and scores of people being evacuated from the area thousands of homes are still threatened and emergency crew. are expected to be fighting the blaze for weeks to come. now times are tough in ireland and for increasing numbers of people in dublin that means descent into addiction drug abuse centers in the city say they're seeing more addicts coming through their doors but as laura 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 cry and recessions making it worst he's seeing eleven new people a week. on account. of people. between drugs and crime and no know his real name is recovering from years of drug addiction here's a story of economic privation and boredom leading to drugs and the breakdown of relationships with family friends and community.

we live on social. knoll 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 job incenses needle exchanges seventeen week residential course it's none of that is cheap to run and despite increasing numbers of addict desperate to get a drug and rehab center to seeing their government funding for every year state drug program contributions are being slashed by ten percent a year and for them. 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 how they can access to treatment programs to my mind is vitally in this fight against drugs programs in our land or hopelessly inadequate and as the recession even harder they won't get any better with disastrous consequences for addicts for communities and for society laura smith r.t. . without it so join katie on the business there so we're all the situations spain this certain to be at the forefront of investors' minds i would imagine today and it's really to eke out what's there and then the exit actually that's right i think spain will no doubt be i mean it's a constant theme it's been dominating the financial markets eight of recent weeks for italy will be the focus today and that's because europe's third largest economy

it hosts a keyboard on sale today and it's hoping to stem phase they might be the next country that requires a bailout after the bank bailout we had for spain of one hundred million a year zero so as i say all eyes settled yesterday we has another tally in bond auction and it was a disappointment we did see boring rates go up so as i say it's early today now let's have a look at the russian markets because they are indeed now i pray and it's early days have been open for about twenty minutes or so now but you're looking at losses right there is half a percent for the a third of a percent for the my sakes and yesterday we had traders here returning to their desks after the public holidays and they finished up with a high and that was largely because they're playing catch up so right now they've digested all the news coming out of the year. weak economic data we have from the u.s. as well this is how they're reacting also we are all is of course playing

a part here in russia as well so next hour gary i will have a breakdown of all the movers and shakers on the my six some of the biggest blue chips and see who's really suffering it's today's session and check out the brutal because that too is now moving i believe it's losing out to both the u.s. dollar and the year as you can see just there is indeed dropping if we look at the common currency though one twenty five seventy one so it's managing to gain ever society demonstrating a bit of resilience but the mood from traders remains bearish for the trade as favorite pair is the most traded currency pad on the market as well talk about europe so stick with i want to talk about moody's in the fact that they slashed spain's credit rating really adding insult to injury by three notches so that out just above that junk status it says it's reasoning behind it is because of the buy of one hundred million in your eyes and they're saying that of course they're going

to have to pay this money back some day and therefore it's just adding to the debt now it's not even the end there's talk of a another downgrade down the line as well and that's boring right as i mentioned continue to cry now moody's has also cut its rating on cyprus another country that's really struggling by chiro chairs and it's talking about the greek exit as a reason as well as the fiscal problems in the country. a lot of concern ourselves with today this is how the asian markets go down because they make a is now actually closed so see the closing figure for the japanese bourse as you can see two tenths of descent down in negative territory and i want to talk about china because credit suisse they've both reduced their growth figures for the chinese economy other talking about all the international pressure is taking its toll on the second biggest economy in the world so it's not. from seven point seven percent so it's also a point seven percent from eight percent or so enviable when we compare it with

that european countries but it's still a drop nevertheless so that is one to watch another sign that there's a slow patch in the chinese economy to watch out for let's see the closing figures for wall street that and see what their reaction to all of this was yesterday i did mention some weak economic data coming out of the u.s. yesterday it was retail sales they disappointed somewhat as well as out i did also mention the italian bond ocean the first one that we have and we gearing up for the second one today as i say so if you're down joe's six tenths of cent down on the nasdaq point seven percent in negative territory let's check out those oil prices and i've mentioned them now if we look at the prices they are indeed they've dropped sixteen percent with an eight month lows now even though they're climbing ever ever just a fraction right now today's a big day for the or markets because we've got opec meeting now accounts for around forty percent of the world oil production they're going to be talking about how

much they're going to produce for the second half of the year as far as economists are concerned there is spezza get to stay relatively the same but if it does change is expected to go on the upside to increase so we'll be watching that one over the insults markets for now next time to talk about the blue chips here must they carry ok thanks a lot for that katie. in about twenty minutes time we tell you who's in the running to get out of the group of death row twenty twelve football championships first erica for top stories in just a few moments to stay with us here about. the .

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now the main stories we're covering for you this hour fronts will last the u.n. to open up syria's skies for western bombers and another broadside on assad's regime by al-qaeda is number two endorses the rebellion. a sinister walk in the woods with an infuriated general on opposition journalists claims led to a showdown with russia's top investigator over an article accusing him of my feelings. gyptian are the fruit of the end of thirty year marriage and see rule is short lived as authorities again allow the army to detain civilians at the presidential election runoff as the country's women who fear the worst. with egypt at a crossroads for its future auntie 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 islamic studies and 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 of 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 in even the pro-democracy protesters or the rebels did they know that this would happen you're a thing that we really want to talk about the whole situation and the.