technology. development. with the strings attached to america's use of unmanned drones worldwide the weapon is being seen more as an aerial serial killer than a tool to the anti terror. unit service rushed to the syrian town of funding it shattered by a week of bloody fighting initial reports suggested rebel scorched the area before abandoning it. and the human rights group criticizes e.u. policymakers for their treatment of immigrants calling it inhumane and south of the crisis test the standoff between europeans and outsiders to the limit.

focusing live from the heart of the russian capital this is r.t. . despite of pakistan's repeated demands for an immediate end to us there drone strikes in the country reports of fresh attacks are continuing and these three people believed to be militants have been killed in the latest incident but with their identities hard to verify there are concerns that america's war drones could be causing civilian deaths in the process so called collateral damage what is going to chicken explains. 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 attached 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 a video with the same men. levy was posted online with titles which are generally reserved for the living there all qaeda leaders have not confirmed or denied levy's

death the video could have been taped before his death that's true so he might as well be dead but the confusion has again once. and raise 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 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 of the aerial strike which

killed two dozen pakistani soldiers last year by mistake diplomatic have a follow 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 in direct we 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 we were portably 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 guy 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 on. weather coming up a little late in the program a surprise twist in egypt's politics the constitutional court dismisses the country's parliament more than a year of political struggles are dead in the water. which. may find himself in sweden by the end of june after british judges refused to reopen his extradition case all that amid concerns the trial is just paving his way to the u.s. . after days of vicious combat against armed rebel syrian government forces a family open the tunnel for to you in observers with memories of massacres still

strong looking for the telltale signs of small to will be high on their agenda so far they found vast amounts of abandon weapons and destruction with almost all government buildings looted and burned the town also appears to be deserted the suspicion that bodies have either been buried or removed before the u.n. observers arrived parallels are already being drawn with past massacres there's growing doubt over the government's cop ability with reports also implicating rebel forces david gibbs history professor at the university of arizona says media spinners left its mark on the conflict. it was a general point in these types of conflicts the propaganda aspect is critically important and there's an effort in the world work for rebels in a kind of almost purely positive light and see regime in a purely negative light and you know get the facts on the ground very hard to ascertain who massacre did for a long time for the look like it was clearly done by the government but there was

a report in the german across from typically the front for to. indicate that there is some indications it might have been. some element of the rebels that might have committed at least part of the massacre the german report with the growth of 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 the good versus evil conflict with all the blame on one side even if the reality is more complicated. with uncertainty and competing interests plaguing the conflicts people avails cross-talk program discusses just what they've got at stake in syria and coming up next. if it hadn't been for the outside interference the army the opposition the promotion of civil war by the united states britain france and their clients in the region this would not have evolved at this point it was it inevitable that there would be a sectarian conflict is joshua it seems to seems to ponder there i think the united

states and britain and france are on a regime change path they recognize the vulnerabilities in different societies if they're if they're divided based on religion or ethno sectarian divide those divisions are then utilized in order to break i think i'm going to. go ahead and i would know that because this did not lead the american french or russian plans to change the regime but it started. people who are protesting. we could expand the jury in asuncion could be sent to sweden by the end of the month where he's wanted for questioning over sex assault allegations after the u.k.'s top court unanimously dismissed his bid to reopen the district. says the move is politically motivated and stocker might have a secret agreement with us where he's wanted for his whistleblowing activities your

story and fears the court's decision that brings him one step closer to being handed over to washington where u.s. attorney kevin zeese thinks the outcome of the process will be decisive for the concept of freedom of speach. 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's been rumors that there is a sealed in 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. a long battle about that as well. then the charges will be very serious ones and the ones that will define press freedom and government transparency for the twenty first century there really would be a really critically important case some of the truth that 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 different that's coming here and i 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 as being threatened 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. well we've been following us on this case from the start so if you're wondering how the story began to head to our web site r.t. dot com and here's a taste of what else might catch your eye while you're there a superpower cities moved on the stuff of science fiction this comics spider-man outfit grabs the attention of the u.s. military. and the shower of shame a billion dollar highway in russia's far east to withstand the patter of rain and

it simply gets washed away. egypt's supremum constitutional court has thrown the country's future into disarray just ahead of the weekend's presidential runoff it is over it is an estimated parliament which means months of campaigning rallying and three rounds of voting are now down the political drain when other highly contentious decision was to uphold the right in the barracks last prime minister when shafique to remain on the presidential election about it it's more suspicion over his possible pollution with the ruling military accusations grin that the army generals will use the current city to sustain power a car a based activist somebody for the believes the muslim brotherhood could not be left with no choice but to change their political strategy. is the muslim brotherhood

and other islamic forces. looking into the situation from a very worrying that positions of the thinkers what have been happening today after this sort of brings up parliament which is the haves overwhelming majority inside that may be moving forward getting in upcoming election which will be a few a few months later. and think as if. this is likely actually an egyptian city which are they now maybe it will crack down on them all. seem very restrictive atmosphere experience due to mubarak regime elements or was 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 it differently. will decide not to waste of time or

resisting. to prepare themselves for the parliamentary election. what ten thousand more are still to come for you including new tremors in the euro zone panic strikes as the euro crisis creeps into britain the government there ordering a one hundred billion report into its own banking system. plus there's no place like home that's the message of russia's cardiologists want to get across to their patients who are still looking further afield when facing a serious heart disease. using force and of immigration control this inhumane and it's gone far beyond the blocks borders according to a recent report by amnesty international and those tests are severe explains ongoing policy failures have become a growing headache for native europeans to. it may be called the european the union

but discord is rife 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. in our street is a rate deliver molested and insulted by gangs of this eighty years mean leader of the new solidarity alternative or and they say rooted in goal jim 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 that's the fault of the. democracy democracy in whole in old west it's economics that'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 people. in all of europe a woman with a veil 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 the racism in the everyday life the people are facing because they don't report because they don't trust the police so every time you get insulted on the street or issue in the same woman that you have scoff and stick and if you have all whatever you don't report simply 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 relive. you know belief and sexual orientation in all areas including social protection and

advantages as well us access to goods and services now the current law only applies 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 while immigrants are blamed by politicians on the right for failure to integrate others say it's the authorities which have not done enough. it was a policy. i never knew that if there is a policy it's not the full 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 us solved could prove just as big a political time bomb tests are silly r.t. brussels. and there's extremism and intolerance flourish across the e.u.

or even further headaches coming from the economy terrified of what's happening in the euro zone the britain has announced some one hundred billion pounds will be pumped into its banks as matters in mainland europe and especially spain get worse as the eurozone author and commentator professor from it by this says it's the beginning of a chain reaction. well now it looks like that spain really needs bail out and once this has happened probably italy will need one then we have to question greece if greece actually exits the euro this were set legal and minister to the president so markets investors within that this could leave and 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 ready . 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. what goes around comes around as europe desperately seeks a financial stimulus he may fear another blow this time coming from iran the country's oil minister has warned that the oil sanctions will be a tough burden for the book's economy that's ahead of a major international talks of iran's nuclear activities which according to the country's top diplomats are entirely peaceful. we are strongly against weapons of mass destruction to do the republic of iran. to cooperate in disarmament nuclear nonproliferation to these good passive suzi should be used by the international community is secondly we expect that the runs right nuclear technologies including you rhenium in richmond as we recognize 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. what that full interview is coming your way at ten thirty am g.m.t. . some other stories making headlines around the world this hour argentina's president has a. committee arguing that should not be under british rule because sided with the thirtieth anniversary of the war with britain over the territory which claimed more than one hundred lives decades on the ownership dispute has not died down and islanders will hold a referendum next year this side their future right into no claims the british occupied the falklands which is causing now been us almost two hundred years ago according to experts the dispute is fueled by the lucrative oil reserves found off

the coast of the i don't. believe in the natives are continuing their forty six day march towards their parents in protest new plans to build a highway through an air as a nature reserve they say the project would destroy their. homeland we can choose president ever model is promising a public vote on the matter. more than five hundred kilometers after a similar march last year that the original parents the road being scrapped. japanese police have arrested the final fugitive suspected of involvement in a gas attack on tokyo subway seventeen years ago which killed thirteen people injured thousands employee in a city cafe recognized him and called the police a man belong to a cult a group which possessed an asteroid of chemical and biological weapons two hundred of its members have been convicted of dozens of crimes another fugitive from the cult was arrested two weeks ago. but our trust is easy to lose and harder to earn

that's what russia's cardiologists experienced first hand with their patients looking over the border when it came to treatment for serious heart disease this may soon change as artie's regular school 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 assisting thousand russians in 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 moskos 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 italian life the former diplomat underwent extensive treatment both abroad and at the buckley of center nuffin 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 but most importantly our doctors have so that they would know this 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 professes of an ear to evolve from the cardiac psych of a 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 a patents 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 not tyler who suffered from here it is terry 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 it even goes r.t. . let's head over to the business desk where kate is poised to tell us the latest on the markets ahead of where the greek election this weekend katie what's happening yeah that's the big event care isn't there and looking at the european markets though they are continuing to go i mean that's largely because there's been

reports that the major central banks and governments across the globe have contingency plans in place ready to counter any volatility next week after the elections as we look at the sea and the docks the boat getting around half a percent i wanted to mention that the greek i asked index to both be getting around one percent there one of the biggest gainers on the footsie is the fascist or hate. second quarter profits two point four percent that's up and we actually have those stories here in moscow as well so let's have a look at the most their markets always say that they too are edging higher but we also yes i have a percent up and three quarters for the my six hours largely because we're seeing oil this hour as well also wanted to mention the fact that the russian central bank has actually decided to keep the key interest rate unchanged to eight percent citing inflation risk and growth prospects given the current global uncertainty

we've got at the my so let's see some stocks and see who's performing at the moment we've got gas from their storefront half a percent around a tenth of a percent call there around a quarter of the energy majors are benefiting from those oil prices are i let's get on to the ruble as see what that's the thing. at this hour the russian currency is they say u.s. dollar and the year and as for the euro dollar is having a bit of a fall as whole day actually but right now it's looking rather the lads pretty aren't sure what direction to go in one twenty six thirty seven the question is will greece be only that currency will certainly find out all right let's get on to the asian markets and see how i did mention that there's optimism about intervention from the central banks but not from japan you can see the nikkei was just one basis point up today and that's because the bank of japan decided not to enforce its stimulus much disappointed somewhat as the hindsight they're up over two percent in positive territory into a trading session after wall street though they finished up baby

a lot of that is because the federal reserve is said to be intervening later on one of mention that the u.s. stock futures are pointing northward right now as you can see the dow jones up one and a quarter on the nasdaq around six tenths of a percent oil was a big news event yesterday because we had the opec ministers meeting their account for over forty percent of the world's production of oil they are going to lead the ceiling the quota for production unchanged at the mine which was expected as you can see they are indeed climbing that's helping out the bosses here in russia all right that the markets without care i'll be back in about thirty minutes the latest update thanks locating. well now we're coming up in this a few minutes on a special report on those who turned bounty hunting into their own gold rush but first the headlines.

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