since the beginning of the uprising here in syria last march but it took a year for the international community to start admitting that to its own late 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 u.n. members and from. members that they're ready to provide the rebels with all kinds of support with everything they need be it money over weapons this news has come at the time of the increase in volleys 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 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. robert naiman from the american campaign group just foreign policy believes there's a contradiction between u.s. support to the rebels and its recognition that al qaida is fighting amongst them. they already know that the even according to the u.s. . they're 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 terrorist attacks in syria on the one hand you have the u.s. saying that they're concerned about groups in the armed opposition and their links to. those on the other hand you have us providing so-called non-lethal aid to the armed opposition is basically giving apparently a green light to other countries to arm the opposition so yes there is

a contradiction there. american secretary of state hillary clinton has sparked a war of words with russian counterpart sergei lavrov after accusing moscow of selling attack helicopters to president assad something not even the pentagon seems to know anything about what is lisa careful of 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 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 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 that yes we are currently fulfilling a preexisting signed and paid for contract one of these contracts are 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 when such shipments arrived in

a certain persian gulf state for some reason the u.s. considers this normal. 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. well keeping a sensitive secret seems to be. tougher washington mandarins as we report later this hour there's a backlash for president obama's inner circle claims of trading national security for political gain than the leak of classified data. that some drugs in ireland financial desperation sends increasing numbers into addiction that the government is slowly pulling funds from rehab. or 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 fairs is an astonishing even more many egyptians women believe it or send the country back to the dark ages as poss new 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 winning the seat or so but for the sequel proving that egypt and 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 to proceed 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's equality leaving many egyptian women to fear that in the post mubarak period their lives will get worse i thought other. crème 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 wherever the 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 our children any money and he treats me bury 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

a weakened state through the role of women. the full equality of women. living in the. undermine or. ember that is the handlers. in the road to progress to the end so why dolly 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. . but 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 were 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 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 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 president cristina fernandez de kirchner on lay out her country's claim to the falkland islands the u.n. meeting in new york state takes place thirty years to the day after the war of the british territory ended decades on the ownership dispute has not died down and this will hold a referendum next year to decide their future project says the british illegally

occupied the falklands which it calls and albinus almost two hundred years ago nine hundred people died in one thousand nine hundred conflict now and say they're being forgotten among the high level posturing or political analyst martin mccauley says it's the lucrative 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 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 the 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 good so they all of. which lie under the water there the idea to you to discover the. prodigal you know it is possible to extend right through to the falklands. british companies. prospecting for the wrong to foreclose so we say find. it makes. strategically and economically very very important and. of course very very wealthy. when the u.s. several classified documents are putting the obama administration's achievements in battling terrorism have recently been leaked to the american media has put the white house in the firing line for jeopardizing national security for the sake of political gain one former foreign service officer the state department believes america could end up paying a high price for the 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 stock's net worth of things that are going on in iran because the raid that killed bin ladin 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 obama's aggressive persecution of whistleblowers in its 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 will or won't turbans right or wrong he alone can decide what information may be amateur 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 i thought he dot com we've got the well that your fingertips has what some on our online videos today beautiful game turns into

an ugly event as russian fans that you are twenty twelve also are attacked by punishment bullheaded comes. across most americans agree that the best way to elect authorities is a direct democratic vote one texan city it seems and throw the dice may be enough. trouble is brewing between a russian opposition newspaper and the country's top criminal investigator he reportedly threatened one of the paper's leading journalists logical and that saying that he took part in a criminal conspiracy with a high profile gang from artie's people. well the head of navi it is yet said to me to move out of has published a editorial and which he says one of his journalists said

a gay softball was taken towards on the orders of alexander historic and the chairman of the investigative committee and threatened with his life now this all stems from an opinion piece that was written by cycle of which he made a series of very serious allegations about mistaken concerning links to organized crime in southern russia now this was followed up by a public confrontation between the two in russia's south following which sokolov 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 is not on a witch hunt. or that we might have certain proof but you've got to understand we want our journalists safety to be assured not dystrophin 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 our employees

it may well be because of emotions due to stress but we didn't get a proper explanation and face to face meeting obviously we're also prone to emotion because things happen we apologize for that if circle of is able to come home with safety guarantees from colonel general of us that he can clear 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 i can process no response charges according well the editorial prompted protests by journalists outside the headquarters of the investigative committee those journalists saying that they will stand by the newspaper and its journalists whatever the outcome from these allegations now as it stands no formal charges have been brought against the investigative committee or its chairman alexander steichen 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. it's all over they're on in her most stark call to action yet germany's chancellor angela merkel is warning that her country's strength is not endless and urging a political union in europe such a move would see countries give up more of their sovereign powers to the well of the union was again pounded by a credit downgrade rating agency slashed the scores of spain and cyprus citing more uncertainty ahead of elections in greece also warned that spanish debt could be relegated to junk status well focusing on the latest trials and tribulations in the e.u. because the reporters here at eleven thirty g.m.t. . spain bailout terms to be agreed within a week or urgency reflects a growing consensus that spatters claps might start chain reaction that could topple italy and destroy the euro yes so what we see is the quick change debt for

a quick change a con game where the indebtedness actually increases and the austerity measures are only going to have to be more severe because they're increasing the debt and they every time they introduce a new fund whether it's the exchange rate stabilization fund or the emergency fund the emergency fund be these are all meant to just create more legs of the con game to create more fees for the con artists and to bankrupt the poor suckers like the europeans who are getting by this on merciful confiscation of wealth. we'll take a look at some other international headlines in brief you know up to four but it turns out being killed in northwestern pakistan and they to stone attack security officials say 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 are kind of terrorists standing looting

a senior figure. yemen's government says it's working to seize a third town from al qaida of the days of airstrikes and crashes in the country's south and it's took control of several there is a year ago but the army has successfully retaken some strongholds seventy nine kind of members were killed and they to preserve the operation which is seen as a major success for yemen's president. it's a far far there's a battling a massive wildfire in northern colorado the death of a sixty two. hot dry weather and changing winds from their efforts to schools of people being evacuated from the area thousands of homes are still threatened and urgency crews are expected to be fighting the blaze. weeks to come. well times are tough in the island 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

addicts coming through their doors but 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 tenement 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. come on can't find work or can't find you know. more reports. of people. between 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. 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 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 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 than less likely to get the become tomorrow's to say no point in even trying i'm never going to do it. how they access to treatment programs to my mind is fatal if in this fight against drugs treatment 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. . because it will be in for the business of. all about oil then for russian investors today it is indeed if we know how reliant the markets are here almost all important price is carrie and today even more so we've got trading floors really

fixated on it and that's because we've got a meeting between the organization of petroleum exporting countries is happening later on today another group accounts for over forty percent of the world's oil production so you can see why it's so important so let's see those or prices for now just see what the situation is you can say they all rebounding about from the lowest close in eight months in the us ahead of that meeting now alice is saying that it's likely they're going to keep the output ceilings for the amount they produce the same so it's not expected to change parts we're going to be monitoring the situation and we'll certainly see and whatever comes out of that meeting we're expecting those prices to response about so let's see how the russian markets are anticipating all of this action the staff today you can see we've got the r.t.s. eight tenths of a percent in negative territory and it's around the same for the mice it's just that is following on from the lower coast we saw in the asian session earlier on

today ok let's see the stocks you see usually here we go we got. asked from six times over certain. to be bankers while the second biggest runs ahead in russia seven times were sent in negative territory lukewarm as well nineteen basis points it's really the company will certainly be holding out for the results of the meeting later on in the session see the exchange rates we see how the ruble is performing and i believe it's still losing out with the u.s. dollar and the euro this hour now as we look at the euro dollar though investors they remain bearish towards a common currency now that can be put down to the fact that we did have some weak u.s. data coming out. and that combined with all the eurozone turmoil as well as leaving it relatively flat right now ok talking of europe i'm going to go outside paris now russia is ready to provide the debt stricken russia with ski's may not restart

again russia says it's ready to provide the debt stricken cyprus with an emergency loan of five billion dollars now the request came after the top secret banks were downgraded and that was due to the high exposure to the troubled economy now last year russia provided the recovery with two point five billion euros and that is equivalent to ten percent of cyprus is the g.d. page so that leads us on to the european markets to see how they're performing right now we can see they are indeed dropping just lots going on in the region today for the footsie point seven percent down for the third of. another tally and bond auction happening today is the third biggest economy in the eurozone and they are going to want to prove that they're not the next country to get a bailout so all eyes are on europe will once again what is the spain situation as well i know you were talking about yourself carry the downgrades from maydays as well as cyprus received the downgrade well all right asia i mentioned they did

close up on the back first china got of a bad rap today they were downgraded by. credit suisse and deutsche bank fighting slow up the road for the second biggest economy and the wild on the nikkei is while they finished on the back but a lot of exports is in the region far exposed to our that's how the markets are looking as i say with focusing on oil a softening kerry ok it's certainly all happening casey thanks for that. and in about twenty minutes our sports around up we'll tell you who's in the running to get out of the group of death at the euro twenty twelve football championship plus their recap of our top stories in just a few minutes. the

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now that let's have a look now at the main stories where covering today francois asked the u.n. to open up syria's skies for western bombers and another broadside on assad's regime but al qaida is number two endorses the rebellion. a sinister walk in the woods with infuriated general opposition journalists claims led to a showdown russia's top investigator over an article accusing him of my feelings. gyptian relief over the end of thirty year emergency rule is short lived as authorities again allow the army to detain civilians ahead of the presidential election runoff as the country's women fear the worst. but will be egypt at a crossroads for its future fourteen now talks to a renowned middle east academic about how the arab spring will pan out.

tariq ramadan you're a professor at contemporary slotnick studies oxford university and also you are a professor at the faculty at 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 it's 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 i think that we if we want to talk about the whole.