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 three 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 the investigative journalism says more than eight hundred civilians died in those bombings among them almost two hundred children what's interesting four 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 of the aerial strike which killed two dozen pakistani soldiers last year by mistake diplomatic have a quality 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 in 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 we were portly 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 bad guys 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 wall should keep quiet about the execution of innocent people in washington i'm kind of shaken. up just a little later in the program a surprise twist in egypt's politics. dismisses the country's parliament anything more than a year of post barack political struggles dead in the water. and that we could join in asuncion 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 haifa to un observers 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 the

bodies have either been very door before the universe. parallels already being drawn with past massacres is growing doubt the government's culpability the reports also implicating rebel forces if it gives a history professor at the university of arizona says western media spin has left its mark on the conflict. was a general point and these types of you know conflicts are the propaganda aspect is critically important. and there's an effort in the world. rebels in a kind of purely positive light and syrian regime with a purely negative light and you know get the facts on the ground are very hard to ascertain who massacred do 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 argument it's like to indicate that there are some indications that might have been some element of the rebels that might have committed at least part of the masse. the german report with

regard to full 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 heat journalism on we. we want to present. something else.

an issue free critiquing three times for charges free. three. three stooges free. download free broadcast video for your media project a free media 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 straining the fears the court's decision brings him one step closer to being handed over to washington or u.s. attorney kevin zeese thinks the outcome of the process will be decisive for the

concept of freedom of speech. i think it's a real shame all saw it as one of four is questioning he's not been charged he could have done the questioning by skype there's no need to go to sweden to be questioned there's been rumors that there is a c. all the words a secret indictment already against julius honest but there may not be real. you 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 will 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. jews are just there now 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 coming here and i nations which is

really illegal she should be being prosecuted now do you signs and so it's a real shame that the transparency that mr assize has brought to the world is being met with the fear and repercussions that's being friendly against him because what he has done merely has been getting out the truth and that truth is what's really frightening to the united states. but we've been following assad his case from the start so if you're wondering how the story began head to our web site r.t. dot com it'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 has dissolved the islamist dominated parliament which means months. campaigning rallying and three rounds of voting and now down the political drain for another highly contentious decision or to uphold the rights of the barracks the last prime minister ahmed shafik 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 courage based activists on a 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 decisions of the thinkers what's have been happening today after the solving of the parliament which is the haves overwhelming majority inside it may be moving as a way of getting in upcoming election which will be a few a few months later. and think is that if she comes to power this is likely actually in egyptians that we should wait now maybe he 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 a political change of differently. will decide not to waste their time. resisting. to prepare themselves for the parliamentary election. to most of the

country including you tremors in the euro zone britain panic says the euro crisis breaks down the mainland defenses london what a hundred ten billion pounds to be poured into its own banking system. that's there's no place like home that's the message russia's cardiologists want to get across to their patients but still looking further afield when facing serious heart disease. he using force which of immigration control this into maine has gone far beyond the blocks borders according to a recent report by amnesty international and the stakes are so he explains getting policy failures have become a growing headache for native europeans to. it may be called the european here. but discord is right and the swing to the extreme is 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 girl is a rate deliver molested and insulted by gangs of this eighty years mean leader of the new solidarity alternative or and this a group in belgium 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. democracy hold in old west it's economics that's nothing to do with race and extreme right or extreme rest or what about 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 it build women cannot work in this shop but what is in the report is the discrimination and racism in the everyday life the people are facing because firstly it's entrepreneur because they don't trust the police so every time you get on the street or issuing the stern warning that you have to cough and stick you have. simply a two thousand and ten report by the european network against racism and 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. twice 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. it was a freedom policy in the integration policy and it's due to the migrants i never knew that if there is a policy it's not the fall of too far as i know of those who make the policy over the europe's economic troubles which are preoccupying leaders show no sign of ending soon but the race and immigration issues they left unsolved could prove just as big a political time bomb tests are cilia r.t. brussels. 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 one 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 with needs bailout one says happened probably italy will need one then we have to question greece if greece actually accepts 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 houses in more so than they would have them are kind of us read . to push other countries to do the necessary stuff so it's very open how this all ends but i fear that in in the end. to 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 to do the republic of iran to do is to cooperate in disarmament of their nuclear nonproliferation through these good passive suzi should be used by the international community and secondly means that we expect that the wrongs right if you nuclear technologies including your rhenium in richmond as we recognize are going to be subject to that this is something that is clearly defined 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 u.n. 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 i want to hold a referendum next year decide their future alan says the british illegally occupied lands which it calls and must two hundred years ago progress is written. off. tens of thousands have been displaced and twenty nine people killed after clashes between muslims and buddhists in northern mineral of in two thousand homes have been burnt with many people being

house. in temporary times neighboring bangladesh is guarding its border to stop more refugees fleeing their violence or spot of the murder of a buddhist to me which that almost a dozen muslims being beaten to death. but even natives are continuing their forty six day march towards the in protest at new plans to build a highway through an amazon nature reserve i said a project would destroy their homes and the country's president even morale is promising a public vote on the matter into more than five hundred kilometers of a similar about last year that the original plans for the well being scrapped. of trust is easy to lose and that's what russia's cardiologists experienced first hand but their patients looking over the border when it came to treatment for serious heart disease this may soon change its artie's discovered. home is where the heart is but for many russians their country is not where they exist to get their medical care especially those with heart problems as many as 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. is that we have thousands of cases which can be very successfully treated here at home i say with all responsibilities ninety percent of all treatments done abroad can be done here. but many remain unconvinced even though centers like most goes back when events to toot 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 mean 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 we're 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 unheard of just a few years ago such as replacing the human heart valve with one from a calf what was the world and holding a frame was to thesis of an ear to evolve from the cardiac cycle for cuff we purchased parts for me crackers bring them here isolate the necessary tissues give them the necessary treatment the treatment methods are protected by a. and then we see from this tissue that can fully replace 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 inherited terry heart condition it's just the feeling right now is that i understand and feel like a completely healthy person. a priceless feeling of in your health achieved without hitting outside russia's borders in moscow. r.t. . let's join kate on the business desk all in investors are is really are focusing on europe ahead of the greek election this weekend very much so there's a lot of nerves in the air carrier as you would imagine i even more bad news this week we know moody's they've been out in force they've been downgrading spain and cyprus but now it's the neverland's turn to take a bit of hey five of the banks including robert back 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. 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 i prefer out twenty minutes or so i'm going to think we've got to take some of them to the r.t.s. around intensive 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 stick my last to avoid inflation excel or a segue russia is actually the only country not to force these at the moment we've . see china india brazil all in full swing stimulus to boost growth amid the

european sovereign debt crisis and the u.s. growth falling as well now let's see how the ruble is before we know as well that such a change of fortunes for the russian currency and the first twenty minutes or so we've got to actually gaining against the u.s. dollar and do your right 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 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 am saying that they will be keeping their interest rate unchanged the investors were hoping that the that they were going to into the ahead 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 to cement and despite our we had jobs claims rising unexpectedly the cost of living fell by the most in 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 that 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 much the heavy weights for the commodity all right carrie next hour have the ability to pull them i said see how they're getting on. very very very crazy. right now the latest cross-talk debate focusing on syria is coming up next in just a few moments of another look at the head hurt.

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that we're watching all the headlines for you now you an observer sent to the syrian town of haifa which has been shattered by a week of bloody fighting the initial reports suggesting rebels scorched the area before abandoning it. the twists and turns of egypt's politics become ever more winding off the constitutional court dismisses the country's parliament while down with barracks ex prime minister to run for president. and the world's top whistleblower joining the sun could be extradited to sweden by the end of the month off the u.k. stop court rejects his bid to reopen the case and claim it's just to stop on route to the u.s. . civil war in syria is a springboard for hot debate whether the u.n. security council what we can both cost talks today that's next.

to build a. mission to teach. violence in syria is now officially called a civil war this is probably called. people. decide the fate of.