with deadly strings attached to america's use of unmanned drones worldwide the weapon is being seen more as an aerial serial killer tool to aid and to turn. your observers rushed to the syrian town of fighting it shattered by a week of bloody fighting the initial reports suggesting rebels scorched the area before abandoning it. and the human rights group criticizes the e.u. policy makers for the treatment of immigrants calling it inhumane acts as the economic crisis test the standoff between the age of europeans and outsiders to limit.

international news and comment twenty four hours a day this is r.t. despite pakistan's repeated demands for immediate end to u.s. led drone strikes in the country reports of fresh attacks are continuing at least three people believed to be militants have been killed in the latest incident but their identities are to verify their concerns that americans would ranes could be causing civilian deaths in the process so called collateral damage what is going to chicken explains the reports about u.s. drone strikes in pakistan coming more and more often we're getting used to hearing in the media such and such number of terrorists was killed with no way to verify really there are no names that hatched to those numbers usually but earlier this month american officials proudly announced that a drone strike in pakistan killed one of his top commanders almost two weeks later video with the same man. levy was posted online with titles which are generally reserved for the living there all qaeda leaders have not confirmed or denied. this

video could have been taped before he's dead that's true so he might as well be dead but the confusion has once again raised the question of who's really dying in those bombings and how much do we actually know because it's all very murky what we do know is that the obama administration has dramatically ramped up drone strikes in pakistan around story hundred strikes since he took office it's this area bordering afghanistan which is on the fire but judging by the intensity of the u.s. strikes there one thing that only terrorists leave there that's not the case of course the long and investigative journalism says more than eight hundred civilians died in those bombings among them almost two hundred children what's interesting for a year u.s. officials are all together denied civilian deaths in drone strikes but reports on the ground told the opposite and thousands of people protesting furiously in pakistan told the opposite then that was the last straw the aerial strike which killed two dozen pakistani soldiers last year by mistake diplomatic have

a call up between the u.s. and pakistan pakistan blocked supply routes to afghanistan and they still remain closed by the way a new wave of extremism has been steered by those strikes but it's also interesting u.s. officials have been directly accused this bureau of investigative journalism which works to shed light on civilian deaths saying those drone strikes of helping terrorists one might argue that this label terrorist helper is becoming an all too convenient tool for the government to brush off investigative journalism then there was this yemeni journalist who reported about the drone strike in yemen in two thousand and nine twenty one woman and fourteen children died there the journalist is now when jail reportedly at the personal request of president obama himself. there's this line of thought in washington. it's all perfectly fine as long as we're fighting the. the president approves the list of those bad guys by the way

the kill list on secret evidence with no review but does the argument we're fighting the bad guys mean the world should keep quiet about the execution of innocent people in washington i'm going to check out. coming up just a little later in the program a surprise twist in egypt's politics. dismiss is the country's parliament anything more than a year of post about political struggles dead in the water. and that we could join the sons may find himself in sweden by the end of june after british judges refused to reopen his extradition case out of it concerns the trial is just paving its way to the u.s. . after eight days of vicious combat against armed rebel syrian government forces a fire in the open the town of half or two u.n. observers and memories of massacres still strong the telltale signs of slaughter

will be high on their agenda so far they found vast amounts of abandoned weapons and destruction almost all government buildings looted and burned town also appears to be deserted with suspicion that bodies have either been buried or before the universe. parallels already being drawn with past massacres is growing doubt with the government's culpability the reports also implicating rebel forces it gives history professor at university of arizona says western media spin has left its mark on the conflict. was a general point in these types of you know conflicts of the propaganda aspect is critically important. there is an effort in the worst. rebels in a kind of almost purely positive light and sealing regime with a purely negative light and you know get the facts on the ground are very hard to ascertain who massacre did for a long time for a while look like it was clearly done by the government but there was a report on the drive across particularly from further. indicate that there are

some indications that might have been some element of the rebels that might have committed at least part of the massacre the german report with regard to pull the underscores the fact that it's very difficult to get at the truth in these types of conflicts where you know both sides are trying to use propaganda and spin to advance their positions and so this is being presented as is typically the case in these types of conflicts as a good versus evil conflict with all the blame on one side even if the reality is more complicated. there hasn't been anything good on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. the full source material is what helps keep journalism we.

we want to present. something else. to michoud. critique ation three. four judges three. three. three. free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free media or down to r t dot com. wiki leaks founder julian assange on this could be sent to sweden by the end of the month but he's wanted for questioning of a sex assault allegations that's off the u.k.'s top court unanimously dismissed his bid to reopen the extradition case for sergeant says the move is politically motivated and stockholm might have a secret agreement with the u.s. where he's wanted for his whistleblowing activities constraining the fears the

court's decision brings him one step closer to being handed over to washington u.s. attorney kevin zeese thinks the outcome of the process will be decisive for the concept of freedom of speach. i think it's a real shame all assizes wanted for is questioning he's not been charged he could've done their questioning by skype there's no need to go to sweden to be questioned there been rumors that there is a sea org and other words a secret indictment already against julius honest but there may not be we don't really know the answer that at this point nothing has been released about that if there is an indictment and he is actually the united states they'll be a long battle about that as well. then the charges will be very serious ones and of the ones that will define press freedom and government transparency for the twenty first century a really would be a really critically important case some of the truth. julius are just gotten out have shown that from the lowest levels to the highest levels of our military and

our state department there are crimes being committed. hillary clinton signing a memo ordering our diplomats to spy on demands come in the united nations which is really illegal she should be being prosecuted now during the songs and so it's a real shame that the transparency that mr assad has brought to the world is being met with the fear and repercussions that's being thrown against him because what he has done merely has been getting out the truth and that truth is what's really frightening the united states. but we've been fighting assad his case from the start so if you're wondering how the story began head to our web site r.t. dot com here's a taste of what else might catch your eye you know that a superpower see his don't know the stuff of science fiction as this war coming out that grabs the attention of the u.s. military. and the shower of shame a billion dollar highway fails to withstand the patter of rain as it simply gets

washed away. egypt's supreme constitutional court has thrown the country's future into disarray just ahead of the weekend's presidential runoff is dissolved the islamist dominated parliament which means months of campaigning rallying and three rounds of voting and now down the political drain another highly contentious decision or to uphold the rights of the barracks the last prime minister ahmed shafiq to remain on the presidential election ballot is cause suspicion over his possible collusion with the ruling military accusations squaring that the army is the current situation to stay in power or current based activists some air force they believe the muslim brotherhood could now be left with no choice but to change their political strategy . as the muslim brotherhood and other islamic forces.

looking into the situation from a very worrying that positions of the think is what has been happening today after this all brings up parliament which is the haves overwhelming majority inside it may be moving. getting the. coming election which will be a few a few months later. and think it. comes to power this is likely actually an egyptian situation now maybe it will crack down on them all. seem very restrictive atmosphere they experienced during mubarak regime elements of all the regime regrouping themselves in a new political party as we hear now and they will compete in the upcoming elections the political changes differently. will decide not to waste

their time. resisting. to prepare themselves for the parliamentary election thanks to most of the country including new tremors in the euro zone britain panic says the euro crisis breaks down the mainland defenses london one hundred ten billion pounds to be poured into its own banking system. thus there is no place like home that's the message russia's cardiologists want to get across to their patients who are still looking further afield when facing serious heart disease. or even force want of immigration control this into maine has gone far beyond the blocks borders according to a recent report by amnesty international and the stats our city explains getting policy failures have become a growing headache for native europeans to. it may be called the european here. but disport is right in the swing to the extreme it's becoming a little more mainstream. especially when it comes to discourse on immigration and

in some cases leads to outright violence from norway. to greece. to hungary. just dumped in our streets girls a rape of a man listed and insulted by gangs of the moment is eighty years mean leader of the new solidarity alternative or and this is a group in golden was convicted on charges of racism he denies being racist but says he's against immigration because belgium can no longer cope with the economic and social demands of mass immigration and that's the fault of the. democracy democracy in whole in all the west to its economic it's nothing to do with race is more extreme right or extreme arrest or whatever the bad whether it has to do with . such is the argument that has gained traction in crisis hit europe with soaring unemployment recent elections in france and greece showed a big gains for the far right and immigrants say they've increasingly been on the

receiving end of prejudice in many forms. in all of europe a woman with a bill can go into any shop and buy anything she wants but a veiled woman cannot work in this shop but what is in the report is the discrimination and racism in the everyday life to people are facing because they don't trip or because they don't trust the police so every time you get into that on the street or issue on this term woman that you have scoffed sticking out of you have all whatever the reports and click a two thousand and ten report by the european network against racism on discrimination found that racially discriminatory practices are widespread institutional in nature and practiced at all levels of society across europe in two thousand and eight the european commission proposed a directive that would ban discrimination on the grounds of age disability religion or belief and sexual orientation in all areas including social protection and advantages as well us access to goods and services not the current law only. wise

to the workplace but it's been four years and the directive is stuck largely because some member states are blocking it arguing that implementation would be too costly this activists say is one of the many failures of policy makers and wall immigrants are blamed by politicians on the right for failure to integrate others say it's the authorities which have not done enough of people he was afraid in policy in the question policy to the migrants i never knew that if there is a policy it's not the follow to far as i know of those who make the policy over the europe's economic troubles which are preoccupying leader show no sign of ending soon but the race and immigration issues they've left are solved could prove just as big a political time bomb tests are still your r.t. brussels. and there's extremism intolerance flourish across the e.u. or even further headaches coming from the economy terrified of what's happening in

the euro zone and britain has announced some hundred fifty billion dollars we pumped into its banks as matters in mainland europe and especially spain get worse as the eurozone author and commentator professor philip bettis says it's the beginning of a chain reaction. well now it looks like that spain will need a row bailout and once this has happened probably italy will need one and then we have to question of greece if greece actually exits the euro this. illegal and minister to the president so markets investors within that this could leave and hold most of the press and precedents for countries like finland and germany to say well we may actually if you don't get your house in order so then they would have a more credible as friend. to push other countries to do the necessary. so it's a very open how this all really but i fear that in in the end these. two

political pressure and start running the printing press. but what goes around comes around as europe desperately six a financial stimulus he may feel another blow this time coming from iran the country's oil minister has warned that the e.u. sanctions we are tough burden for the books economy that's ahead of major international talks over iran's nuclear activities which according to the country's top diplomats are entirely peaceful. firstly we are strongly against weapons of mass destruction but today the republic of iran has to do is to cooperate in disarmament of their nuclear nonproliferation through these good passive suzee should be used by the international community and secondly means that we expect that the wrongs right if you nuclear technologies including uranium enrichment as we recognize are going to be subject to that this is something that is clearly defined by the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and i think that addressing these

two issues will help to advance negotiation is. for the full interview is coming your way next hour. now a look at some other stories making headlines around the world rajan seen as a president in a period of un sequin a zation committee that the falkland islands should not be under british rule coincided with thirty years to the day after the war over the british territory ended claiming the lives of some nine hundred people there cade's on the ownership dispute has not died down and islanders will hold a referendum next year decide their future i don't seen it says the british in the occupied lands which it calls and then us two hundred years ago. this is written. off. tens of thousands have been displaced and twenty nine people killed after clashes

between muslims and buddhists in northern minimal two thousand homes have been burnt with many people being house. in temporary camps neighboring bangladesh is guarding its border to stop more refugees fleeing their violent response of the murder of a buddhist woman which that almost a dozen muslims being beaten to death. but even natives are continuing their forty six day march towards the purse in protest at new plans to build the highway through an amazon nature reserve and said the project would destroy their homeland the country's president evo morales is promising a public vote on the matter. to walk more than five hundred kilometers after a similar botched last year that the original plans for the road being scrapped. the trust is easy to lose and harder to earn that's what russia's cardiologists experienced first hand but their patience looking over the border when it came to treatment for serious heart disease but this may soon change as artie's discovered

. home is where the hardest but for many russians their country is no where the chance to get their medical care especially those with heart problems is many is just saying thousand russians are here just to go abroad to get treatment because they say health care at home leaves much to be desired for the country's leading cardiologists it's a great concern that only. we have thousands of cases which can be very successfully treated here at home i say with all responsibility ninety percent of all treatment is done abroad can be done here. but many remain unconvinced even though centers like most goes back will of institute have perfected some of the most complicated procedures which can give the old or young taker and new life dr busier she believes the country's recent past is partly to blame that's of course the after the break up of the u.s.s.r. the state had to be created in you and in the process the situation with medicine

was led to go to the point where people have unfortunately lost the trust in russian health care to me it's not so for two time hard bypass survivor the tally me knife the former diplomat underwent extensive treatment both abroad and at the buckley center most immediate suman our health care is far stronger and kinder than westerns especially now when many medical centers have the technology or used to seeing in the west i suggest most importantly our doctors have soldiers that i would notice. that along with well trained hands is something which allows russian doctors to save lives daily with operations on heard of just a few years ago such as replacing the human heart valve with one from a calf. and holding a famous pathy says a family or to involved in the cardiac saga for cuff we purchase hearts from meat packers bring them here isolate the necessary tissues give them the necessary treatment the treatment methods are protected by apartments and then we saw evolve

from this tissue that can fully replace a damaged human. thousands of such procedures have already been deformed at the center on patients as young as just a few weeks old to those whose lives are in full bloom like twenty four year old natalee who suffered from a hearing to terri heart condition it's just the feeling right now is that i understand and feel like a completely healthy person. a person is feeling of inner health achieved without hitting outside russia's borders in moscow. r.t. . let's join kate on the business desk katie all in investors are is really are focusing on europe or head of the greek election this weekend very much so there's a lot of nerves in the air carrier as you would imagine and even more bad news this week we know moody's they've been out in force they've been downgrading spain as cyprus but now it's the neverland's turn to take a bit of hey five of the banks including robert have had that credit rating lashed

that's after the credit rating agencies cited the likely continuation of the recession falling house prices in the country now they've cited a stable outlook for all of these bags but not sure the negative outlook which means they could see another downgrade in the future well the market i want to focus on right now is the one here in moscow the r.t.s. in the mises because they have recently just they but oprah for about twenty minutes or so. we've got to tell them a bit of the r.t.s. around night intense of the third for the my six today we're expecting light it to be thin on the ground today that's ahead of the election as investors don't want to take too many risks ahead of the outcome that we're seeing also today the russian central bank they're expected to refrain from raising boring costs for six months to avoid inflation accelerating russia is actually the only country not to force these at the moment we've seen china india brazil all forcing stimulus to boost

growth. amid the european sovereign debt crisis and the u.s. growth falling out as well now let's see how the ruble is befalling that is well such a change of fortunes for the russian currency in the first twenty minutes or so we've got to actually gaining i guess the u.s. dollar and the euro as well as that we've got the euro dollar and you know it's pretty much unchanged really from the last hour it's just a one twenty six thirty five region to see how the asian markets are getting on them as we can see they are indeed mixed and that's because the nikkei in japan recently we have the bank of japan and i are saying that they will be keeping their interest rates unchanged bess's were hoping to they were going to into the head of the election this weekend just to kind of boost the market is a little bit but they decided not to do so so we did have the nikkei dipping into red territory but the hang seng is over a percent in positive territory as they are in the second part of their trading day

as for the u.s. there is also rumors of stimulus coming from the federal reserve later on today and that was helping boost the men to despise our we had jobs claims rising unexpectedly the cost of living fell by the most more than three years we had gains on wall street we have the oil prices as well we had the big meeting yesterday between the opec meeting they decided not to change the quota for production in the second half of this year we're monitoring those prices very closely indeed because if they do take another fall that opec has said they may indeed have to intervene but right now they are indeed climbing and it must be said that they account for over forty percent of the world's oil production the very most the heavy weights for the commodity all right carrie next hour have the ability to pull them i said see how they're getting all. right thanks up take eighty. well now the latest cross debate focusing on syria is coming up next in just a few moments of another look at the head hurt.

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