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 cordon to this plan ceasefire was supposed to take a force on april the twelve but instead we've been seeing an increased 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 . the general mood has trust there is no other plan on the table but these six point plan is not been implemented meanwhile we see the most. serious sees no alternative to that and it is pushing both sides to try to implement

this plan and. most 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 the 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 its trek in and russian military cargo ships and it is now making its way to syria to a russian naval base the. in the city of tire too as 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 tartus. 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 i spoke to miss merriam from a christian ministry in syria she says armed rebels are playing games with u.n. monitors we weren't the first in the world to follow on to the scene and to tell. the narrative world would end the people they have seen. carrying out of from the national hospital in could upset arms of blankets of

ministry of health screening them to assemble then in was the second day we have seen the un observers coming to these very modest to be able to see these laws because it's not possible said to. me would keep those people international who was then carried them into blankets and give them to the opposition was a disease why men have all under possibility to show them they're on a story or 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 policemen noted steak seem to think her camera is 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 at a 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 ahmed shafik 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 munson 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 wants egypt is run by

a military council who was put in power by basically what the u.s. are proving 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 an addiction or terry has the gun and they're being funded to know a billion dollars every year by the usa you know whatever happens in the selection even of the muslim brotherhood does win the election the military still going to help our. egypt's elections also being followed closely by the countries maybe israel the riff is anti jewish sentiment on the rise since mubarak's ouster will spike if an islamist candidate comes to power. paul asli has got that side of the story set a corner asking when these words the muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed morsi campaign was launched with a vow that the capital of the arab world will be jerusalem which morsi will run

into 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 or 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 morsi as presidential bid has been even more bold in the kane's. war with israel is in no way something that can be rolled out to 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 used to house is even fiber but it is now it was detonated they can assign is rabies fear of what's to come. for egyptians this 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. 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 . 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 islam has dominated parliament and gave. contained. 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 for the next two years is not iran but the situation in egypt a consume the islamist at least in public and at least for now are trying to downplay i think it's very close to to make some trouble here but no trouble. 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. . i should expect we're closely following developments in egypt for your because 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. grappled with. by the subscriber. but it's time to come. on out. public anger spilled out onto the streets of rome this weekend with the taliban's protests to get 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 have fanned out here to what is being in much better phrase fasting against the continued austerity measures that have crippled the country among the days. prior and

employment to kill my effect employment cost in my life last year he had taken a prime minister mario monti coming and he was a man that fix the functioning finances but that's our 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 had of people's lives is very significant of course this isn't something we see this year in stone building for a long time now you call greece ireland portugal spain spain which is just recently had a bailout installs and a lot of people think it's going to be following in the system that the other countries had a full state bailout in recent times remember just a couple of years ago even allowed that he mentioned the possibility about the year

end thing about the end of the year is saying well just a couple of years on and those same people and now very realistically discussing the possibility of the disintegration and the break up of the year is the question that everyone's asking is what now happens right now we place to saying goodbye altogether to the year right how will that impact the country that is its thing i think the. next disaster there are thing. was a lot of focus on greece creaks gearing up of course to make one of the most crucial financial decisions in recent history this week and this future of the euro support before sunday's election is said to be divided almost equally between two parties left wing serious is strongly opposed to assert. the conservative group new democracy which wants to want to bail out obligations artie's jacob graves is in athens. this is really become a two horse race about two differing schools of thought one of them is backing the

waves of austerity we've already seen would have been growing increasingly popular that means job cuts means cuts to salaries and 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 yes there are two 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 at 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. i care for six children 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 see their help and desperate times our major. source of. income. he's from the private sector not from the greek state. and we had to significantly reduce all money just what kind of greece

these children grow up in may about to be decided as people head to head to the polls the most to come in the year because it's very important for greece to stay in the euro zone and you know you were last with i was there though a party's exist on the ballot paper for most this is a choice of two competing thoughts approach bailout voters being 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 that the cost of marched leaving the euro zone is estimated to be three trillion euros and this isn't because the eurozone can bear. merging only during may's undecided first election as a reason has continued to hold ground with this radical rejection of a u. i.m.f. and euro zone impose austerity rightly so for i guess the whole.

experiment of measures is going to. the feel of the. perspectives. by the elections others have been far from languishing on the sidelines the far right group golden door courting controversy known for racial outbursts 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 fees anxiety and challenges that face this weary nation whoever clinches victory to greece assy happens a lot more about online of course as well be following it for the weekend and also online right now if you get a minute. we reveal the toxic fallout from america's agent orange that may have spread from vietnam to japan but fears that massive caches of bury for decades of poison the nearby island disturbing story online. also previously settings

overlooked silicon valley yahoo and microsoft have been cashing in on personal user data selling it to political campaign is again the go to low down at r.t. dot com. the high up china's launched a milestone space mission the self to noon to perform the first ever manned docking with beijing's orbiting station and 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 a launch pad of 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 mix crew. 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 in two thousand and three of the first manned launch last year was the first unmanned docking at this space module the chinese the third country after russia 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 her tray 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 us just as applied to 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 twin car bomb explosions have rocked the iraqi capital it's left at least 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 countries 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 react as if fishel say the move will help to avoid power outages that will 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 cues the police of acting outside the law to suppress media freedom. reports. dramatic scenes unfolding in the u.s. a must cover vent for journals that the idea. apparently that wasn't enough would be 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 keeps coming. and i just. try to tell him that i'm a journalist. people out my state department grief ation be asked whether i have four new york police one unfortunately that's one expired q writes for a daily russian newspaper and has worked in the us for the last three years over there are proof you have they don't really care they're just you just business and you credentials don't really prefer to sit 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 universe and bring right away here there's any patients patients give you brooms trash cans and shovels and you're basically walking around sweeping the

streets picking up the debris paper cigarette about whatever keil is now on probation for six months it is an outrage 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 u.s. when you let the state control who is a journalist that's just propaganda to pool as 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 by 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. press masses in. they require a focal plane press cabs 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 at least agencies to determine which press the 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 next to cover a story near impossibility pasties world 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. shouldn't

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 a bay detention 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 so 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 issues first and then you will deal we ve issue of the world after all 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 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 u.s. justice applied to them so yes i think it's an issue do 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 you shouldn't. and that's i don't know going to in a way i'm going to turn him 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 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. i get my remains open the bottom line is it probably won't be closed for a very long time. our 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 after the headlines which are next in two minutes from them.

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hello thanks for joining us this is r.t. from moscow and these are all top stories this. observers in syria have suspended their activities because of violence denied. ship is carrying weapons and troops to syria. the. presidential election is underway this weekend but many of. the choices before the runoff is between a muslim brotherhood candidate and. a minister. in rome today while the europe's fate hangs in the balance with greeks set to go to the polls to. future of the single currency its fear the greek exit could split the

eurozone apart. up next more topical conversation going off interviews a u.n. representative for human humanitarian affairs about the dire situation right now facing civilians affected by the syrian unrest it's coming right up. hello again a welcome to the show on party. today my guest is. the political crisis in the middle east has affected millions of a lot.