you and observers of syria suspend their activities over the threat of mounting violence while moscow denies the pentagon's claims that a russian military ships carrying weapons and troops to the conflict talk of. the final round of egypt's presidential election underway but many are left disenchanted by the choices before them with no constitution that dissolved parliament. thousands of italians march against cuts in rome while the euro's future hangs in the balance this weekend with greeks set for a key vote that will decide the future of the single currency. hello and welcome this is r t it's seven pm here in moscow my name is kevin now in

our top story the u.n. observer mission in syria is suspending its activities because of escalating violence in the country this is the u.s. says it's tracking a russian military cargo ship is it makes its way to syria with weapons and troops reportedly on board moscow's denied those claims but said several ships are ready if needed to protect its syrian base. has the latest from damascus we're hearing from the chief of you and supervision mission here in syria that the more interest has suspended all the activities in the country and the main reason for that is an increased violence we've been witnessing in the last few days that pose significant risk for around three hundred more interests here in the country and has actually been impeding their ability to fulfill their amended here in syria indeed we've been see dramatic escalation the last few days with increased number on. rebel

attacks on the syrian army checkpoints at the same time we've been seeing that syrian government has given too much freedom to syrian army to deal with that u.n. observer is they were sent to syria in mid april to. monitor the implementation of coffee and six point peace plan here in syria the cordons to this plan a ceasefire was supposed to take force on april the twelfth but we've been seen an increase number of attacks from both sides international officials and u.n. officials both confirming that a cease fire hasn't been implemented and both sides have been equally responsible for that well what we are seeing now here in theory is kind of deadlock because as . general mood has trust there is no other plan on the table but these six point annan plan is not been implemented meanwhile we see the most. serious sees no to answer to that and is pushing both sides to try to to implement

this plan and. it is resisting military intervention in syria while the calls for that get louder and louder and this news has come when. we are hearing reports from u.s. military officials that it has completed its own planning for how american troops would conduct operations against this syrian government just days after the u.s. state department was to back away after hillary clinton's controversial remarks alleging that attack helicopters were on their way from russia to syria we're hearing new comments from u.s. military officials this time reporters an american news outlets saying that most has sent a small contingent of troops to syria the pentagon says it's tracking and russian military cargo ships and. it is now making its way to syria to

a russian naval base there in the city of tire to us we're hearing from military diplomatic sources in morse code that indeed one of the large landing chiefs of the black sea fleet is on standby there and is ready to be sent to syria if needed just to protect russian citizens in this poor thing. but it denies that it is right now making its way to the port of tartars. the violence raging on in syria that many in the international community were quick to put the blame for alleged massacres on assad forces but after miss merriam from a christian ministry in syria she says armed rebels are playing games with u.n. monitors we were the first in the world and two were flown to the scene. in the night of war would end the people they have seen. carrying out of the

national hospital in corpses arms of blankets after ministry of health screening them to assemble them in a mosque and the second day we have seen the un observers come into these very modest to be able to see these laws because it's that was said to. me. those people are international who was then carried them on. and they give them to the opposition close aides use why i'm here for the possibility to show them there on the story you end up sort of the militia men we don't know who they are armed opposition there's many threats each one of those factions are working independently it's why it's very difficult to then you would say i had. ahead of the next few minutes china's most ambitious space mission to date beijing sends its first ever female astronaut into orbit in the last few

hours on a mission that could pave the way for china's of manned space station we've got the pictures also police in the night at stake seem to think cameras more dangerous than the game these days at least that's the impression some journalists say they're getting when faced with brutal police action and protest rallies. it's tough decision for egyptians as they vote for the country's next president in the election runoff their choices between muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed morsi and. hosni mubarak's last prime minister comes after the country's supreme council dissolved parliament at the same fate could now face an assembly appointed earlier to draft a new constitution to thousands of people have chosen to boycott the vote saying neither candidate represents the egypt they were fighting for in last year's revolution the ruling military council has promised to transfer power to the new president by july the first but independent journalist thomas mountain told me thinks that's highly unlikely. or may sound harsh but to me this election is not

about what the egyptian people want it's about what the usa once egypt is run by a military council who was put in power by basically with the u.s. approval last year with the overthrow of mubarak the united states has invested something like one hundred billion dollars in today's dollars. keeping the egyptian military funded the election looks pretty rigged i mean the rules have been changed since the last election you know the reality is political power grows out of the barrel of a gun and the egyptian military has the gun and they're being funded two to one of a billion and a half dollars every year by the usa you know whatever happens in this election even if the muslim brotherhood does win the election the military is still going to have power. egypt's elections also being followed closely by the country's neighbor israel the riff is anti jewish sentiment on the rise since mubarak's ouster will spike if an islamist candidate comes to power. paula slayer's got that side of the story set a corner with these words the muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed morsi campaign

was launched with a vow that the capital of the arab world will be drusilla and which morsi will want to liberated six weeks on the contest is as tight as ever with morsi a strong contender to be egypt's next president and his promise is as governessing as ever egypt is committed to international agreements that were signed including the treaty with israel egypt and should have the right to amend all that is not in their interest to go and make sure the other party commits to what it is signed as if it's not warming enough for israel what will happen to the one nine hundred seventy nine peace treaty with egypt big players who've put their weight behind more presidential bid have been even more bold in the claims of how but the war with israel is in no way something that can be ruled out the clock was always ticking the egyptian street no stranger to empty israel sentiment and despite the worries about stability in the revolution the elections simmering below the surface is hostility towards israel but that hostility was kept in check during the bikes

time the top floor of this building is used to house these even fibers but it's now closed up and make it a sign is rabies fear of what's to come my four egyptians there is really sputnik and i mean number one the next president will be strong and change the status quo i refuse to continue the relationship had the israeli ambassador fight we know he's a realist the first for us next president should cut all the relations between us it's a three eighty israelis can no longer ignore thing that. anybody should close ones and ignore such rhetoric that's not only very negative but is alarming but a muslim brotherhood victory is not a done deal on thursday egypt's constitutional court dissolved the islamist dominated parliament and gave morsi is contender. in the green light to stay in the race but it's done little to calm israeli fears of an islamist government on its

border correlations will be reduced to zero. but the real problem is to what extent will the brotherhood purse its goal of trying to destroy israel and kill all of us. way i would actually say that the main security danger to israel today and for the next two years is not iran but the situation in egypt a concern the islamists at least in public and at least for now are trying to downplay i think is entitled to some trouble here but. you know but maybe israelis are worried because in the ruthless business of politicking easy points are scored by using the jewish state as a punch bag and what israelis fear is that what see today is only a step away from being implemented tomorrow policy r.t. cairo. budget experts were closely following developments in egypt for you hope you

stay with us for the latest updates an expert analysis from the first post mubarak elections. champion hard line islamists. hated remnants of a tyrannical. rabble to come. by the subscriber. but it's time to come. on out. public anger spilled out onto the streets of rome this weekend with the tally is protesting at ever growing cuts and unpopular employment and tax policies that feed the country which is the euro zone's third largest economy could be next in line for a bailout sarah first been following that rally. thousands of people that stand out here in the witness being ins much praise us against the continued austerity

measures that have crippled the country among. my own employment and to kill my economy pointed out cost in my life last year and had to take the prime minister mario monti coming he was a man that fixed the country's finances but the economic medicine that he prescribed has really angered italian tell you just the large number of people. to this march today the year is inspired largest economy has seen its borrowing cost absolutely saw and the impact that that part of people's lives is very significant of course this isn't something we see this year a stone building for a long time you call greece ireland portugal spain spain which is just recently had a bailout the source and a lot of people think it's going to be following in the sense that the other countries had a full state bailout in recent times remember just

a couple of years ago even love that mentioned the possibility about the year right thing about the end of the year is saying well just a couple of years on and those same people are now very realistically discussing the possibility of the disintegration and the breakup of the year is the question that everyone's asking is what now happens next are we close to saying goodbye altogether to the year right how will that impact this country if it is. the. next disaster there are thing. was a lot of focus on greece greeks gearing up of course to make one of the most crucial financial decisions in recent history this weekend the future of the euro support before sunday's election is said to be divided almost equally between two parties left wing suit it says strongly opposed to a store it's in the conservative group new democracy which wants to want to bail out obligations ati's jacob graves is enough of. this is really become

a two horse race is about two differing schools of thought one of them is backing the waves of us there are two you've already seen which have been growing increasingly popular that means job cuts means cuts to salaries also means cuts the spending from the government all part of this bailout provided by the e.u. i.m.f. and the euro zone now that has proven increasingly unpopular but still being defended by new democracy now on the other side the fence has to reason out beforehand before the previous elections in may these are seen as quite the outside left radical group now although they're really garnering much more middle ground when it comes that sentiment of opposing this. measures being put in place of opposing what's come before them they say there's been too costly for the greek people in their eyes and in many voters' eyes austerity simply isn't working to dealing with a mixed bag but one fact remains that present that people in greece are still

suffering prosperity and a crippled economy rocketing unemployment and a crumbling economy are the more widely known symptoms of greece's austerity plan but there are some who have lost something far more time to give up caring for their children simply because they can no longer afford to do so. here for six children or we've been through some struggles i'm not only concerned about the future of my kids i'm concerned about everyone myself included. if he is part of a charitable program named s.o.s. children this is one of its branches a village of foster homes but now it's finding itself overwhelmed his family seek their help and desperate times our major. source of. income. is from the private sector not from the greek state. yeah we had the significance of the use of money just what kind of greece these

children grow up in may about to be decided as people head to head to the polls so you must become a you know it's very important for greece to stay in the euro zone and you know you were lost without us was there though eight parties exist on the ballot paper for most this is a choice of two competing thoughts the pro bailout vote has been embodied by new democracy a party which is overseeing the country's recent spending and job cuts they view us their tea as a bitter yet necessary pill to swallow but not everyone agrees with the. constable leaving the euro zone is estimated to be three trillion euros and this isn't the cost the eurozone can bear. merging only during may's undecided first election it's a reason has continued to hold ground with this radical rejection of a u. i.m.f.

and euro zone impose austerity is a matter for ideas the. experiment of about this though the measures is going to end. the fear that. the perspectives are going to be cut by the elections others have been far from languishing on the sidelines a far right group golden dawn courting controversy known for racial and an anti immigration stance they've continued to hold on to a marginal but symbolic percentage of support for their views remain drowned out by the anxiety and challenges that face is wearing nation whoever clinches victory to greece assy happens a lot more about that online of course as well be following it for the weekend and also online right now if you get a minute to look at r.t. dot com we reveal the toxic fallout from america's agent orange that may have spread from vietnam to japan is the. is that massive caches of buried for decades

of poison the nearby island disturbing story online for you also for the settings overlook silicon valley yahoo and microsoft have been cashing in on personal use of data selling it to political campaign there's again. the high up china has launched a milestone space mission the softer noon to perform the first ever manned docking with beijing's all putting station also on board is china's first ever female astronaut to share the other two crewmembers will spend around ten days in orbit now the spacecraft blasted off successfully from the gobi desert in china the aim of the mission is to test the crafts ability to dock at that orbiting module if successful it could pave the way for beijing setting up its own manned space station by twenty twenty now malik managing editor of space dot com spoke to us and says china is going full steam ahead with the patients about this. this is their

big test to show that they can do it with people on board they can do it with a mixed crew mixed veterans and new space flyers for them it's a major milestone what china has done in just the last decade it has taken a stepping stone approach to human spaceflight so they went with unmanned launches first and in two thousand and three the first manned launch last year was the first unmanned docking at this space module but china is the third country after russia in the united states to develop human spaceflight and it really looked at the success of russia's program the experience that nasa had to to shape its own independent program they've also just learned from the errors and the successes of those two programs so well you see where you see a long decades long legacy of russia and the united states china is really relatively new but they're trying to focus on what they can do. successfully and that will be really unique and tailored to what china hopes to accomplish in space

. we'll follow the progress still to come this broken promises i think it's an issue i think it's hard for us to you know preacher a is being this sort of promoter of human rights while also keeping people in prison for as long as they have without any trials or any any chance that u.s. just is avoiding them as president obama fails to close the guantanamo bay military prison we get reaction from people on the streets of new york. bring you world news in brief twenty seven moscow time when car bomb explosions have rocked the iraqi capital it's left at least thirty two dead and injured dozens those blasts targeted neighborhoods where thousands of shia pilgrims are gathered to mark a religious festival the violence is the latest in a wave of attacks on shia muslims in recent weeks with seventy killed on wednesday . japan's ordered to stop two nuclear reactors the first to go back online since all the country plans were closed after last year's fukushima disaster the decision despite massive public opposition could open the

door to more restarts among japan's fifty working reactors if fishel say the move will help to avoid power outages and speed up economic recovery. saudi arabia's crown prince next in line to the throne has died in a hospital outside the kingdom prince was announced as the country's there to the saudi king abdullah in october was also the country's interior minister and deputy prime minister next in line is now than expected to be the prince's younger brother . just doing a job could land you in trouble especially it seems if you're a journalist covering protest rallies in the united states these days some reporters of queues the place of acting outside the law to suppress media freedom. reports. dramatic scenes unfolding in the u.s. a must cover vent for journalists that the idea i showed them. apparently that wasn't enough for the new york police his press pass feeling to pass the test this

reporter got arrested while covering the occupy wall street protests no muss no fuss officer just puts the cops on me. and i just. try to tell him that i'm a journalist. people out my state department greet fish and ask whether i have your police on unfortunately that's one expired rights for daily russian newspaper and has worked in the us for the last three years prove you have they don't really care that just you just business and you credentials can't really protect you sent through a whirlpool like legal system the seasoned journalist was treated as a protest participant under arrest twenty four hours behind bars a quickie trial six hundred dollars in fines were his punishment for doing his job covering the news of the day and then there were the two days of community service the what you never bring right away here was an efficient station give you brooms

trash cans and child and you basically walking around sweeping the streets picking up the debris paper cigarette about whatever kitty was now on probation for six months it is an outrage in a country that professes to have a and i respect for the free press to be you know throwing reporters in jail. but this case is not unique rather it's part of a dangerous trend in the us when you let the state. troll who is a journalist that's just propaganda team pool is an independent journalist who has witnessed police reject press passes on a state by state basis throughout occupy wall street protests that in new york they don't care even if you have a press pass i've watched i've watched a cop grab a journalist with his press pass on the ground i've seen supervisors call out to grab a journalist press pass and take it from him at the c.p.d. processes in oakland they require

a local oakland press and i in new york they've been rejecting trespassers from other jurisdictions to have a first amendment which guarantees the freedom of the press i mean there is no nothing in the law which must lease agencies to determine which press them are legitimate press and which are not requiring a press pass it's also been sending journalists through a vicious circle not just people work with guessing games of which state might be in next to cover a story near impossibility the passageways world obviously you have to prove that you've covered breaking news but it's hard to cover breaking news in the police won't let you so creates this catch twenty two take several months finally if they like the news you're making they'll let you get a pass. arbitrary or unattainable press passes demanded journalists arrested for covering the news the constitutional concept of media freedom under siege i think we're slowly coming into a state of affairs where. doing

a video camera is a lot more dangerous to the establishment and shooting a gun choosing to view his arrest as an invaluable cultural experience he treats it with humor i got two articles out of my experience so it's pretty good outcome for me freedom of the press in america a first hand account is that it sure can our party new york. the one ton of attention center infamous for its military trials and allegations of torture appears to be stuck in limbo president obama so far failed to fulfill his promise to shut the facility down a resident of new york that took the issue on the streets of the big apple. even though president obama promised to close the prison at guantanamo bay or get him out it remains open why this week let's talk about that and i think the logistics of closing it of prevented president obama from making it happen do you

think it was a mistake for him to make such a promise no i don't i think. i think he's i think you're still committed to the policy he's trying to roll the rock and it's a tough rock to roll i say that i'm ready to be fed up of both the u.s. imperialism you should deal your own hughes first and then you will deal we the issue of the world after a gig is one time obey just an example of our imperialism of course it is an example you know because you want to impose democracy even though some countries and you're not even able to impose democracy in your own country i think it's an issue i think it's hard for us to you know portray as being this sort of promoter of human rights while also keeping people in prison for as long as they have without any trials or any any chance that us just as applied to them so yes i think it's an issue if you think it's fair for us to hold them indefinitely absolutely not so what does that say about the u.s. . says we're in a difficult position right now that make it ok to hold people without knowing if

they're guilty of anything probably not it says that you guys want to control the world actually. and he shouldn't. and that's i don't know going to know where you're going to turn away shouldn't exist i don't think the president of the united states really has the power to close guantanamo i mean what would you have to do with the people who are there yeah i have no idea which is why i'm not in politics but that is the question right now it's a lot easier to say i'm going to close it than actually go through with it whatever you think is the reason. that get my remains open the bottom line is it probably won't be closed for a very long time. programs continue surely spotlight host all gone off talks to the u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs valerie amos that's coming up right

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