groups and international terrorist for violence of 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 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 u.n. members and from. members that they are ready to provide the rebels with all kinds of support with everything they need be money over weapons this news has come at the time of the reason volumes 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 and syrian government to call on all parties to lay down arms and to pull back as he put it from the brink.

but with my own from the american campaign group just forum set foreign policy told me believes there's a contradiction between u.s. support of the rebels and its recognition that al-qaeda is fighting amongst them. but i already know that the you need according to the u.s. . their concern for example. like groups in iraq. 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 in be sickly giving apparently a green light to other countries to arm the opposition so yes there is

a contradiction in policy. american secretary of state hillary clinton spoke to war of words with the russian counterpart sergei lavrov after accusing moscow selling new attack helicopters to president assad so they're not even the pentagon seems to know anything about lucy cuff and offers more of 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 i have just not seen that that while washington was left to sort out as 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 and paid for contracts for 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 one such shipment arrived in a certain persian gulf state but 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. giving 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 with claims of trading national security for political gain by allowing the leak of classified data interesting story come out for not cause i want to read it. and debts and drugs in ireland financial desperation sends increasing numbers into addiction yet the government slowly pulling funds from rehab. egypt could be sliding back into emergency rule after the government restored rights to the army to detain civilians the muslim brotherhood's warning that the move will allow the military a tighter grip on control even after this weekend's one of presidential election

but one group fears is almost domination even more many egyptian women believe it will send the country back to the dark ages as paul asli a friend. she's young and in vicious and planning to become egypt's next president but she needs to wait ten years until shooting forty so she can run not for the sake of you know winning the seat or so but for the sequel 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 they quietly stood 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 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's equality leaving many egyptian women to. fear that in the postman by period their lives will get worse assaf other l. creme 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 on a financial right even the money left to me by my father who recently died my husband doesn't give me or our children any money and he treats me barry 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 the recently. poor old woman. the full equality of women. living in the under my or. under that is the handedness. in the road program to. answer what daily and might be inspiring her generation and she's received awards from around the globe for her fearlessness in treating 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 up in slaving at least a part of it policy r.t. keimer so egypt's about to decide to have the state's top job but still lacks a constitution in about twenty minutes here on this channel then we hear from an expert on how votes going to affect the path to democracy. 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 democracy procedures if there is no transparency in the way it's put. argentina's president cristina fernandez de kirchner will lay out her country's claim to the falkland islands at a u.n. meeting in new york. it takes place thirty years to the day after the war over the pritish territory ended decades on the ownership dispute hasn't died down while it

is set to hold a referendum next year to decide the future argentina says the british illegally occupied the falklands which it calls the melvina so almost two hundred years ago nine hundred people died in that nine hundred eighty two conflict and now ireland to say they're being forgotten above all the high level posturing political analyst martin mccauley says it's the lucrative all 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 was coming from what is are is the argentina government is using very very strong language and some people might say threats about the security of the falkland islands the falklands have been claimed by spain britain france and even the dutch and the i.g.

do claim is a very thin 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. you know didn't you know it's possible that will extend right through to the falklands. british companies or prospecting for around the falklands so we find. that makes. strategically and economically very very important and. of course very very wealthy. in the united states several classified documents revealing the obama administration's achievements in battling terrorism have recently been leaked to the american media and has put the white house in the firing line and for jeopardizing national security for the sake of political gain one former foreign service officer at the state department believes america could end up paying

a high price now for these leaks. leaking information that paper's year 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 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 won't determines right or 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 the world's at your fingertips. website here a couple of stories online right now for you have when the beautiful gave turns into an ugly event as russian fans that twenty twelve couple of days ago in warsaw were attacked by polish football hooligans we got more pictures more on that story online and most americans agree that the best way to elect authorities is a day wrecked democratic vote but in one texas city it seems a throw of the dice may be enough. this is tape russia's top investigator has denied allegations that he stretton one of the country's opposition journalists over a newspaper article the controversial report claimed that the high ranking official took part in a criminal conspiracy when

a high profile going. more of the stories developing in russia on the case. of i guess the answer is the newspaper isn't it now far from being government friendly let's face it what's he trying to highlight here. well the heads of. the me team of has written an editorial in which he claims one of his journalists. was taken into woods in moscow on the orders of alexander that he can the chairman of the investigative council now in those woods it's claimed that he was his life was threatened the article goes on to say that this comes off the back of an opinion piece that was written by and which he made a series of very serious allegations against that he can accusing him of having links with organized crime in southern russia now this was followed by a public bus stop between so-called of. the can which resulted in so-called of

apologizing formally now has dismissed out of hand and all of the claims made in this editorial. saying that if the events that are supposed to happen that exist in this editorial happened over a week ago why did the newspaper take so long to publish them he's accused. of mixing facts with lies in their reporting saying that there was categorically no abduction of one of the journalists he's late the blame for this current situation firmly at the door of the newspaper accusing no vegas yetzer of publishing a blatant and shameless article and went on to say that it was he himself who had invited along to see firsthand how the committee conducted a high profile investigation into organized crime in russia's south has since left russia and his editor at no big as yet explained their reasons why they delayed the

publication of the story. 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 or due to stress but we didn't get a proper explanation and face to face meeting 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 apologize for that of circle of who is able to come home with safety guarantees from colonel general bus three q we're happy with. the publishing of this editorial prompted protests by journalists outside the headquarters of the investigative committee those journalists saying that they're firmly behind the

newspaper and it's journalists it's also expected that the editor in chief of not yet it is set to meet with alexander best that he can to discuss this issue further peter all over thanks for bringing us up to date on this story today. in her most stark call to action yet germany's chancellor angela merkel is warning that a country strength is not endless and there's a greater political union in europe such a move would see countries give up more of their sovereign powers than to the e.u. earlier the union was again pounded by credit downgrades moody's rating agency slashed the scores of spain and cyprus citing burgeoning debt burdens and uncertainty ahead of the next greek elections it also warned that spanish debt could yet be relegated to junk status focusing on the latest trials and tribulations in the new the kaiser report is here in just over an hour's time. spain bailout terms to be agreed within a week urgency reflects a growing consensus that spanish class might start chain reaction that could topple

italy and destroy the euro well you know it's pretty much all the con game and some of our more well known others and they they know the 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 talking they wear suits they have nice hands you know they come in there and they talk a good game and they want 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 a good line lives. will do a brief up to four militants have been killed in northwestern pakistan the latest u.s. air strike security officials say an unmanned drone fired two missiles at

a vehicle ten days ago in a strike in the same region which is seen as a taliban stronghold left fifteen al qaeda terrorist dead including a senior figure. yemen's government says it's working to seize a third term from al qaida after days of airstrikes and clashes in the country burtons took control of several areas a year ago but the army has successfully retaken some of the strongholds seventeen al qaeda members were killed in the latest phase of the operation just seems a major success for yemen's new president. hundreds of firefighters are battling a massive wildfire in northern colorado which led to the death so far of a sixty two year old woman but the hot dry weather and changing winds are how print their efforts with scores of people being evacuated from the area thousands of homes are still threatened and emergency crews are expected to be fighting that blaze for weeks to come. time's up. these days in ireland for increasing numbers of people especially in dublin that means a lot of descent into addiction drug abuse centers in the city say they're seeing

more things coming through their doors now laura smith reports the cush government's not securing the 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 cry and recessions making it worst he's seeing eleven new people a week. disposable income and can't find work or can't find you know. more recourse. you know. takes off on people. between drugs and crime and knoll not 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 ireland drop incenses needle exchanges seventeen week residential course it's none of that it's . cheap to run and despite increasing numbers of addicts desperate to get the drug and rehab center to seeing their government funding for late every year state drug

program contributions are being slashed by ten percent a year and for the various 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 to become tomorrow's the 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 both 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. . so if a prisoner is not ok he said we are to the business desk for a skate to wall or europe deals with a surging borrowing costs to get more of it here in russia investors are focused on

those oil prices what you call yeah exactly right here in russia as you say it's all about oil because we know the markets they are focused on it because they fear a much rely on them and today it's a big day kevin because you got the opec meeting and well they're expected to keep their production quota on changes the organization of petroleum exporting countries as a pattern they're meeting in vienna today at around six pm more scary time so investors are holding tight for that one of the real kind of heavyweights in the oil world really because they account for over forty percent of the production so let's see the all price is now is what the situation is and they are dropping as a society so they're still hovering around those eight months alone as you can see just as i say they're expected to keep the quatre unchanged and that's because they're going to agree to disagree we had the saudi arabia oil minister he was. thank there he would like to see those increase because of supposed law i would like to see well

a bit of kind of leeway given to the global markets because obviously we've got a sovereign debt crisis going on we've got a slowing growth in the us as well so the price is very much put pressure on those economies when families are going to the pump they hear right so the prices they want to go high for investors to. get on to the markets and see the situation is right now we have a look at the r.t.s. on the mises you can see they're still in negative territory tons of stuff for the r.t.s. and the mice it's just shortly behind raise we end to the afternoon session here in moscow all right as have a look at some of the movers and shakers of the dac is up the soft in the we've got some ruler uses that gas from eight tenths of said down big energy major had the biggest and the second biggest bank the t.v. over up to send down blue collar as well just six basis points just holding out for that meeting on the softer news in all right to see how the variables getting on then the russian current say as been struggling erased awakes as you can see is

losing against the u.s. dollar and the year and the trading session today still. much movement as tool really if we look at your dollar though it's losing just a fraction that one twenty five fifty four kevin you mentioned it yourself the borrowing costs are going to talk about those in just a second but right now i want to talk about cyprus because they're off to russia for some help and russia is going to give out today this is a good one this is interesting now it's a case of russia to the rescue for five for us now russia says it's willing to loan five billion dollars to the troubled economy and the us off to a request was put forward of the mage's cypriot banks were downgraded due to the high exposure to the greek economy is not the first time the two countries have been linked last year russia provided the republic with two point five feet in your eyes and that's privet ten percent of secret g.d.p. . as a side bar in cross is well we just had some results come in spain in italy reaching

all time highs saying cyprus has got a downgrade but so has spain as well and that's really putting pressure on those borrowing costs. right so spain ten year bond yields seven percent a tally in as well we got five point three percent so the pressure is on in europe today demanding a higher borrowing cost us the situation right now as you can see the first see that from three quarters of the said down the dies round eight tenths of the said in negative territory this hour this is how asia go on there earlier in the session because they kicked it all off and they had some domestic data coming out as well we know that china has been suffering from slowing growth recently credit suisse and to each of bag they've well they've changed their output growth forecast for the country down eight percent for the country sounds good doesn't it but it's not for china all right then as you say they can to tell it's a descent in negative territory up with after about fifty minutes credit or old

friends create a year of spanish very low light as they're calling your own all the conferences have gone there's no we're very much crosses story ok for example so much now russia crosses borders all across europe twenty twelve favorite so holland minimize the chances of qualifying to the player for suffering two losses in a row last night the frontrunner the boot with all expert sports news stream where the in about fifteen minutes time but next on our team from moscow it's headlines.

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hello this is the r t news channel it's her post to here in moscow these are our top stories france will ask the u.n. to open up syria skies for western bombers another broadside in assad's regime but al qaeda is number two in tall sister a belly of. a sinister walk in the woods so that infuriates a jew. no an opposition journalist claims led to a showdown with russia's top investigator over an article accusing him of mass feel that. the chip should relief over the end of a thirty year emergency rules being short lived as authorities again allow the army to detain civilians ahead of the presidential election run off but in the comfort of the countries that women who fear the worst is a story we're bringing here in full again in the next twelve hours. but with egypt the crossroads for its future are two no talks than to

a renowned middle east academic about how the arab spring saga he thinks will pan out. tariq ramadan you're a professor at contemporary slumming 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. 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 and even the pro-democracy protesters or the rebels.