been blaming 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 knowledge that groups affiliated with al qaida were operating in syria all busily battling 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 over happens this news has come at the time of the increase in violence 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 and syrian government to call on all

parties to lay down arms and to pull back as he put it from the brink i spoke to robert nigh when he's from the american campaign group just foreign policy who 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 us. there are concerned. like groups in iraq. syria. are you know likely believed by the u.s. to be behind some of the spectacular bombings and tourist attacks in syria on the one hand you have the u.s. saying that they're concerned about verbs in the armed opposition and their links to. other hand you have us 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. american secretary of state hillary clinton sparked a war of words with her russian counterpart sergey lavrov for accusing moscow selling new attack helicopters to president to set something on even the pentagon apparently 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 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 your existing and paid for contract one of these contracts related to defense only and exclusively we do not export to syria or anywhere else for anything that could be used to get what he said will demonstrate because you believe that's markedly different to the united

states which regularly ships such weapons to the region just recently one such ship in the right in a certain persian gulf state to drop it 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 us pentagon spends millions to buy russian made seventeen's on behalf of the afghan air force keeping a sensitive secret seems to to be. for washington man driggs as we report later this hour there's a backlash the president of the circle with claims of trading national security for political gain by allowing the leak of classified data a great story coming out of there and also deaths of drugs in ireland financial desperation sends increasing numbers into addiction yet the government slowly pulling funds from rehab for it. egypt could be sliding into emergency rule after the government restored rights to the army to detain civilians the muslim brotherhood's warning that the move with a low military

a tighter grip on control even after this weekend's runoff presidential election but one group is the islamist domination even more manageable believe it will send the country back to the dark ages as paul asli a found out. she's young and ambitious 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 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 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 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's equality leaving many egyptian women to fear that in the post mubarak. 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 wherever 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 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 it 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 that. the or. and that it is the hamburgers. in the road to progress to affordable and so widely and might be inspiring her generation and she's received awards from around the globe for her feel isness and tweeting and blogging about the revolution more more people are asking if it's possible that the revolution that was supposed to liberate its people might just land up in slaving at least a part of it policy r.t. cairo. egypt spread to decide who will have the state's top job them but still lacks a constitution and next hour on r t we have 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 the constitution. the people who are from the old regime cannot present themselves for the next ten years but you can't 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 to catch that will lay out her country's claim to the falkland islands at a un meeting in new york this coming thursday it takes place thirty years to the day after the war over the british territory ended decades of the ownership dispute

hasn't died. and there's a settled referendum next year to decide the future argentina says the british illegally occupied the falklands which it calls the most venus almost two hundred years ago nine hundred people died in the one thousand nine hundred two conflict are now allowed to say they've been forgotten among all the high level posturing political analyst martin mccauley says it's the lucrative oil reserves of the falklands coast this feuding with the speed. it's if you like a signal to one's art is 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 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 train 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 of the ideas of discovered. in argentina it is possible that will extend right through to the falklands. british companies or prospecting for us around the falklands so we find. strategically and economically very very important and. of course very very wealthy . in the united states several classified documents revealing the bomber administration's achievements in battling terrorism have recently been linked to the american media and it's put the white house in the firing line then 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 for it. leaking information that paper's year was 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 was 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 obama's aggressive persecution of whistleblowers his use of the espionage act that's the other side of this story and that's the other thing that's unique in this case obama's ratings go up he watches the polls very carefully they put out this information that he practically does these things himself with his bloody hands and his popularity goes up this is about a president who believes that he'll 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 but acito call website we've got a well that your fingertips whenever you want to access it this is what we've got online today when the beautiful game turns into an ugly event as we witnessed a couple of days ago russian fans at euro two thousand and twelve in warsaw are attacked by polish football hooligans pictures who got more on the story online. by most americans agree that the best way to elect authorities is vajra direct democratic vote but they'd same's in one texan city a fro with the dice may be enough. russia's top investigator has denied allegations that he threatened 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 with

a high profile gang more for marty's paper all of them. the head of no vague as yet said to me has written an editorial and which he claims one of his journalists said it. was taken into woods in moscow on the orders of alexander to take in the chairman of the investigative committee now in those woods it's claimed that the journalist life was threatened the article goes on to say that this comes off the back of an opinion piece that was written by so cold in which he made a series of very serious allegations against mistaken accusing him of having links with organized crime in southern russia now this was followed by a public bus stop between so could all of. us to be can which resulted in so little 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 have happened that exist in this editorial happened over a week ago why did the newspaper take so long to publish them he's accused innovate

his yet so 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 independent shameless offical now by state who went on to say that it was he himself who had invited so it could over a long to see first hand how the committee they conducted a high profile investigation into organized crime in russia's south and has since left russia and his editor at no vague 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 journalists safety to be assured not be stricken 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 and this letter we say you have. the life of our employee it may well be because of emotions 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 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. is set to meet with alexander but still he can to discuss this issue further. in a most call to action germany shands wrangler merkel's warning that a country strength is not endless but it is urging greater political union in europe therefore such a move would see countries give up more of their sovereign powers to the e.u. though now earlier the union was again pounded by credit downgrade 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 dead could yet be relegated to junk status proxying on the latest trials and tribulations in the e.u. here the code is a report here in just a bit more than ten minutes 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 same and some. more well known than others 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 talking they wear suits they have nice hats 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 the. lolling step it up get your pockets picked but do big banks don't waste your time or get lively as a dental. team with a very short afternoon most world news or brief to bring it today to 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 an air strike in the same region which is seen as a stronghold for the taliban left fifteen al qaeda terrorist dead including a senior figure. yemen's government says it's working to seize a third term from al qaeda now after days of airstrikes and clashes in the country south militants took control of several areas a year ago but the army successfully retaken some of those strongholds seventeen al-qaeda members were killed in this latest phase of the operation which is seen as a major success for yemen's new president. hundreds of wildfires and firefighters

hundreds of firefighters rather are battling a massive wildfire not on bridges one big it's in northern colorado that led to the death of a sixty two year old woman but the hot dry weather and changing winds are hampering their efforts really badly there were scores of people being evacuated from the area thousands of homes are still threatened that emergency crews are expected to be fighting the place and weeks to come. times are tough in ireland for increasing numbers of people in dublin that means a descent into addiction drug abuse centers in the city say this seeing more addicts coming through their doors these days but as laura smith reports for r t the cash strapped government isn't sikkim 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 cry and recessions making it worst he's seeing new people a week. on account. of people. between drugs and crime and know not his real name is recovering from the 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.

know did everything except heroin finding his brother dead from an overdose as a teenager saw to that he's in a four month rehab program partly funded at least for now by the state isn't getting any easier for the people who run vital drug programs in drop incenses needle exchanges seventeen week residential course it's none of that is cheap to run and despite increasing numbers of addicts desperate to get the drug and rehab center 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 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 and 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. . grim picture there is no ok pretty prisoners trailer's culture with the. last oh you're telling us about imports of oil per you're talking about oil you've got more on the price of oil from credit suisse and of course also this big news from spreading those borrowing costs of december cent we're going to stop for a plenty to talk about let's start with the oil situation because as far as russia is concerned that's top of the agenda kevin now as you say credit suisse they've got some pretty dismal figures coming out for the russian investors they're forecasting creep prices to reach fifty dollars per barrel more on that later this first they start with the oil prices and see what they're looking like ahead of the organization of petroleum exporting countries the opec meeting in vienna is going

to be six pm last time we're going to have some analysis on that later on as you can see it's mixed up. now they're not expected to change their feeling on the production for the second half of this year it is a case of agreeing to disagree and that's despite global turmoil that we're experiencing right now the fragile state of the global economy all right so that's how all stands right now ahead of the apec meeting as i say all lies ahead let's have a look at the russian markets and see that they are holding on to their positions right now i want to talk about credit suisse as we can see you got all t.f. up. in terms of a stand my state's eight tenths of a percent in negative territory right now. let's talk about credit suisse and as i say now. is all russian investors right now because they are due for calls in the price of grain crude to fall to fifty dollars

a barrel in the us by the end of the year but that is only if the escalation of the eurozone crisis takes the worst case scenario now in an interview to the u.k. telegraph newspaper the bank's novices said that the current global imbalances or even while worse than at the financial crisis of two thousand and eight just to remind you back then that the price of brant fell over one hundred forty five dollars to below forty dollars per barrel and that was in just half a year. ok let's have the stocks and showing see some of the biggest moves and shakers we're looking at the red dagger is right there we got gas from a ten percent massive energy major here we've also got three to be bank as well second biggest lender over a descent down call just holding on to those six places points moving on. look at the variable to see how that's before me it's all really moved much at all actually it's got to be said it's not cheap losing against the u.s. dollar and the us those people going on holiday is not good news for the exchange

rate as we can see we've got the euro dollar that is losing a fraction there is one twenty five fifty four as you can see now the reason why the euro is managing to hold on to some strength modest is because we had retail sales in the u.s. coming out that failed to impress very much as you can see it's actually down just this us despite all the negative impacts we've got going on now there's talk of cyprus story this one here now russia says it's willing to loan five billion dollars to the troubled economy and that's all for quest was put forward after major cypriot banks were downgraded and that's due to the high exposure to the greek economy and it's not the first time. you can't just have been linked last year russia provided the republic with two point five billion euros and that was the couldn't ten percent of g.d.p. secret g.d. pay this have a look at the european markets them because that you mentioned kevin the bar room rates they have escalated for both baby and it's a laser let's have

a look at the half a percent down on the dice around a third of a percent in negative territory at this hour and of course to go to great lengths and i did mention it but it is the overriding theme coming up on sunday let's see how the asian markets finished up earlier in the session they finished on the back first class because they had to mystic data to contend with they had downgrades from credits with banks saying that the growth in china is going to slow this year and as you can see the nikkei around two turns of a cent down for the hang over a percent in negative territory or at cadbury that's it for me to me but i could be up next the latest update all right frenchwomen for the recovery mission to refinance as well we value to synchronize your watches from our skies is keeping an eye on the economic crisis clock that keeps on ticking down straight after recover the top stories here on our team from moscow.

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it's fifteen thirty hours moscow time this is r t international and these are our top stories france will ask the u.n. to open up syria's skies for western bombers and the broadside of assad's regime but al qaeda is number two endorses the belly of. the ship should relief over the end of thirty year of virgin sea rule is short lived as authorities again allow the army to detain civilians ahead of the presidential election runoff but it's the country's women who fear the worst. kind of cinema still walk in the woods with a new fury eighty general how an opposition journalists claims led to a showdown with russia's top investigator over an article accusing him of matthew links. i'm kevin now and by when he was in full in thirty minutes then between now and then the kaiser report revealing next how the u.k. may be blindly slipping into default along with other european nations.

max kaiser this is the kaiser report well you know it's pretty much all a con game and some games are more well known than other stacie herbertson max keiser the short count come on it's a change raising con it's known as and is a common short con and involves in offer to change in amount of money with someone while at the same time taking change or bills back and forth to confuse the person as to how much money is actually being changed the most common form the short count seen in many movies yes that movie from twenty years ago or so paper moon had a famous scene there in the depression.