militant groups and international terrorists for violence in 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 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 money or 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 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. of a name and from the american campaign group or just foreign policy believes there is a contradiction between u.s. support to the rebels and its recognition that there is fighting amongst them. we already know the need according to the u.s. . their concern 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 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 u.s. 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 secretary of state hillary clinton a spot a war of words with her russian counterpart sergey lavrov off accusing moscow of setting you attack helicopters to president assad something not even the pentagon seems to know anything about what is this a caffein off has more to 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 seemed 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 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 contracts 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 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. now russian attack helicopters are in hot demand right now that's because the u.s. pentagon spends millions to buy a 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 out is a backlash for president obama's inner circle claims of training national security for political gain a one hundred leak of classified data. that sent drugs in ireland financial desperation sends increasing numbers into addiction if the government is slowly pulling funds from rehab. now egypt could be sliding back into emergency rule of the government restored rights to the army to detain civilians the muslim brotherhood is warning that the move would add that other military a tighter group on control even after this weekend's runoff presidential election

one group is in a storm an asian even more many egyptians 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 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 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 egyptian women to fear that in the post mubarak period their lives will get worse afaf 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 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 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 over in the country's. poor all over. the full equality of women. and anything that. undermined that for. him because it is the handedness. in the road. and so why don't we end might be inspiring her generation and she's received awards from around the globe for her fearlessness in tweeting and blogging about the revolution normal people are asking if it's possible that the revolution that was supposed to liberate its people might just land i've been slaving at least a part of it policy r.t. . well egypt is about to decide who will have the state's top job but still lacks a constitution the next hour here r.t. we hear from an expert on how that's affecting the path to democracy. we were told just as 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 regime they should be how come 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 president cristina fernandez de kirchner world layout countries claim to the falkland islands at a un meeting in new york state takes place thirty years to the day after the war of the british territory and it will decades on the ownership dispute has died down

islanders will hold a referendum next year to decide their future argentina says the british illegally occupied the falklands which it calls them out venus two hundred years ago when i one hundred people died in the one nine hundred eighty two conflict now say they're being forgotten among all the high level posturing political analyst martin mccauley says it's to do. oil reserves off the coast that's fueling the disputes. if you like a signal to is that the focus is or is the argentinians 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 leg which is coming from what is r a'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 plain britain france and even the dutch and the argentine a claim is

a very simple one but argentina is concerned about structure. which lie under the water there the idea to the school with. no possible white suit to the. british companies. prospecting for the wrong to foreclose so we see find. that makes. strategically and economically very very important and. of course very very wealthy . one of the u.s. several a classified documents revealing that obama administration's achievements in battling terrorism have recently been leaked to the american media it's put the white house in the firing line for jeopardizing national security for the sake of political gain but one former foreign service officer at the state department believes america could end up paying a 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 because the raid that killed bin a lot of 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 but he practically does these things himself with his bloody hands and his popularity goes up this is about a president who believes that he also turbans right from wrong he alone can decide what information may damage the 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's your

fingertips has what some online videos today from the beautiful game it turns into an ugly event as russian fans that you are twenty twelve and also attacked football hooligans. most americans agree that the best way to elect authorities is a direct democratic vote but in one texan city it seems a throw the dice may be enough. russia's top investigator has denied allegations he threatened one of the country's opposition journalists over a newspaper article controversial reports claim that a high ranking official took part in a criminal conspiracy with a high profile gang a move from marty's piece on of a now. well the head of navi it is yet said to me to move out of his published day

editorial and which he says one of his journalists surrogates was taken to woods on the orders of alexander the strike 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. issued a formal apology now the journalist has left russia and his editors says that cycle of safety is the only concern of the newspaper and that is not on a witch hunt. we might have certain proof but you've got to understand we want our journalist 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 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 obviously we're also prone to emotions things happen we apologize for that if circle of is able to come home with safety guarantees from purnell general bust thinking we're happy with that well the editorial prompted 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. but in a most stark call to action yet germany's chancellor angela merkel is warning that her country's strength is not endless and surging great to political union in europe such a move would see countries give up more of their solvent powers to the e.u. we're already at the union it was again pounded by credit downgrades moody's rating agency slashed the schools of spain and cyprus citing bushing debt and uncertainty

head of the next greek elections to also warn that spanish debt could yet be relegated to junk status before kissing on the latest trials and tribulations in the e.u. because reporters here at eleven thirty g.m.t. . spain bail out 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 well you know it's pretty much all a con game and some are more well known the other and there they know that con artists like the european technocrats know that the victims of the car and the europeans were the greeks or the spanish or the irish they are the instinct they're too polite to question the con artists because they're sort of talking they wear suits they have nice hats you know they come in there and they talk a good game and they thought well maybe we're wrong maybe we're the ones that need to really examine what our position and they're very polite and the con artist walk out the door with their money step up get their pockets picked but too big to fail

banks don't waste your time with good line lives dental. let's take a look at some other international headlines in brief now up to four militants have been killed in northwestern pakistan in the latest u.s. air strike security officials say an unmanned 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 qaeda 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 but it's in the control of several areas a year ago but the army has successfully retaken some a stronghold seventeen al qaeda members were killed in the latest phase of the operation which is seen as a major success but you know on the new president. hundreds of firefighters are battling a massive wildfire in colorado compared to the death of

a sixty two year old woman but hot dry weather and strong winds one hundred their efforts with scores of people being evacuated from the area thousands of homes are still threatened emergency crews are expected to be fighting the place for weeks to come. now 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 it's more smith now 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. 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 he says a story of economic privation and boredom leading to drugs and the breakdown of relationships with family friends and community. we live on social welfare. my father would have been around. 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 in ireland drop incenses needle exchanges seventeen week residential course it's none of that is cheap to run and despite increasing numbers of adding death threats against a drug and rehab center to seeing their government funding for like every year state drug program contributions are being slashed by ten percent a year and for the middle. harry's drop in center for the homeless waiting lists are 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 no point in even trying i'm never going to do it. having access to treatment programs to my mind is vital if 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. . now that story in the business desk for the latest in all things finance i guarantee you're going to stand the big meetings on the cars today for investors and for us in what's happening yes a big day for the oil investors and a big day for russia as well because we're all holding tight for the organization of petroleum exporting countries. meeting happening in vienna later on today now the group is so important because they account for over forty percent of the world's oil production so therefore they have an impact on those prices so let's see the prices for now and i do believe they're dropping ever so slightly and they're really hobbling around those eight month lows just now that's ahead of the meeting now what happens in the meeting is the ministers all get together and they

talk about production and supply and what's expected is it's going to be unchanged for the second half of this year now we have comments coming out in recent weeks from the saudi arabia minister he wants to see them increase to help out the fragile state of the global economy but it is believed by analysts that they're going to agree to disagree and keep them as they are so we'll be watching the situation got a few hours to go just now other brings us on to the russian markets as they say they're holding tight for the maid saying as you can see they're dropping in anticipation of that on. yes around one percent down the my so it's not shortly behind nine tenths of a cent in negative territory this season movers and shakers that we've got from that it's still remains in your head territory it is a major energy major here we've got one percent down there the second biggest lender nine tenths of a percent down as well third of percent holding on to that negative impact that

holding on to the meeting i would imagine all right let's move on and see how the exchange rates are getting on the ruble remains unchanged it's lower against the euro and the u.s. dollar for the common currency of one thirty five to seventy five is just a fraction of the bearish response from investors as a way the greek election on sunday the seventeenth to see if they will indeed the euro zone that's what investors are holding out for now also want to talk about cyprus if i may as well because it's very much a case of russia to the rescue you know russia says it is willing to loan five billion dollars to the troubled economy and the us off to a request was put forward because of major cypriot banks being downgraded due to the exposure to the greek economy now i saw the first time the two countries have been late last year russia provided the public two point five billion euros not project movement to ten percent of cypriot g.d.p. a this check out the european markets and see what their response is to all of this

because this what's going on we've got the italian bond. as well we know the spanish bond yields and borrowing costs. they are the third biggest economy in the eurozone and they're going to be the next country is going to need a bailout they're going to be hoping to prove today with us as you can see the footsie there is nearly a percent in negative territory now b. sky b. the british stock is down around six percent of a just one of two will cost one hundred fifty four football matches for the season of twenty thousand i thought did i mention because it's the your eyes. but when thompson said we're right now apparently so close i'm going to get a waiting president even on the leg of a let's have a look at the asian markets then we'll see that they finished on the box but today as you can see there the nikkei around two tenths of a percent down and the hindsight even was all laws here because they had some credit downgrades by credit suisse and going to banks so i think it was right in the wild second biggest economy all right that's why the markets that care about

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