un observers and sirius is bending over to use over the threat of mounting violence almost he denies the pentagon's claims that a russian military ship is carrying weapons and troops to the conflict one country . the final round of egypt's presidential election is underway but many are left disenchanted with the choices before them with no constitution and a dissolved parliament. and thousands of italians march against cuts in rome while the euro's future hangs in the balance with greeks set up for a key vote that will decide the future of the single currency.

here live with us here in our chief from moscow i'm tom would say let's take a look at the stories that are making made news and headlines this hour the u.n. observer mission in syria is suspending its activities because of the escalating violence in the country this as the u.s. says it's a tracking a russian military cargo ship as it makes its way to syria with weapons and troops reportedly on board moscow's denied the claims but said several ships are ready if needed to protect a syrian base artie's marie a few national reports from damascus. we are hearing from the chief provision mission here in syria that the more interest have 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 posed a significant risk for around three hundred monitors here in the country and has actually been impeded in their ability to fulfill their amended here in syria indeed we've been seeing dramatic escalation last few days with increased

number of 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 you and observe 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 force on april the twelfth but instead we've been seeing an increased number of attacks from both sides international officials and u.n. officials confirming that 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 a u.n. mission general stress there is no other plan on the table but these six point annan plan is not been implemented meanwhile we see that most. 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 in louder and louder 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 through a russian naval base there in the city of tire to is we're really hearing from

military diplomatic sources in morse code that indeed one of the large land in 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. but it denies that it is right now making its way to the port of tartus. where the violence raging on in syria many in the international community were quick to put the blame for alleged massacre so early on assad forces spoke to him from a christian monastery in syria she says armed rebels are playing games with the u.n. monitors. we were the first in the world to wear a phone to the scene or to turn in the night of war would end the people told us they have seen the militia and varying out of from the national hospital in toledo

corpses arms of blankets of ministry of health scurrying them to assemble them in was the second day we have seen the un observers come into these very modest to be able to see these laws because it's not possible is said to. me. those people are international horse return then carried them on the in the blankets and we give them to the opposition closer disease swine have all and a possibility to show them we see they're all in the story or you end up sort of elysia men we don't know who they are the armed opposition they have many strengths each one of those factions are working independently it's why it's very difficult to tell you they are ahead in the next year men as a child as most ambitious space mission date thinking sends its first ever female

astronaut into orbit on a mission that could pave the way for china's own man space station. also police in the u.s. seem to think carol is more dangerous than a gun it is that's the impression some journalists say they get in when faced with brutal police action at protests rallies. it's a tough decision for egyptians as a vote for the country's the next president in the election runoff their choices between muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed morsi and ahmed shah feet husni mubarak's last prime minister the ballot comes after the country's supreme council dissolved parliament and the same fate could now face an assembly appointed a new constitution thousands of people chose to boycott the vote saying neither candidate represents the egypt they were fighting for in last year's revolution the rooty military council promised to transfer power to the new president by july the first but independent journalist thomas mountain thinks that's highly unlikely. but

it 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 egyptian military has the gun and they're being funded two to one of a billion dollars every year by the u.s. you know whatever happens in the selection even if the muslim brotherhood does win the election the military still is going to her power. egypt's election is also being followed closely by the countries neighboring israel there are fears and the jury's sentiment on the rise is since mubarak's ousting will spike if any slam as candidate comes to power policy has

a story. and ask these great solution brotherhood candidate mohamed mursi campaign . that the capital of the arab league will be huge listen in. six weeks on the contest is this tight as in let me see a strong contender to be egypt's next president and his promise is going to nine seeing as interim. egypt is committed to international agreements that were signed three od'ing 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 departments stop 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 most his presidential bid has been even more bold in the claims 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 used to house these we need to see fiber but it's now closed up and became a sign is rabies fear of what's to come. for egyptians it is released publicly and i mean number one not the next president will be strong and change the status quo but if used to continue the relationship of our head will israel in the last continue to fight we know he's a realist the first you know for us next president should older and we should i mean us the memo which it's a three to israelis can no longer ignore thing that. anybody should close ones and ignore such rhetoric that's. not only very negative but it 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 morsi is contender shake the green light to stay in

the race but it's done little to calm israeli fears of an islamist government on its border croatians 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 i don't say i 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 it's very close to some trouble here but not trouble. you know but maybe israelis are worried because in the refuse business of punishing easy points or schooled by using the jewish state as a punchbag and watch israelis fear is that what see today is only a step away from being implemented to move to the c.r.t. climate. r.t.

is closely following developments in egypt stay with us for the latest updates and expert analysis from the first the prize mubarak presidential elections. hardline islamist. remnants of a tyrannical. grappled with. by the street. but it's time to come. on. public anger has spilled out onto the streets of rome with me tell you is protesting at ever growing cuts in unpopular employment and tax policies it's fear the country which is the euro zone's third largest economy could bring the ex in line for a bailout sarah furthur is following the rally. thousands of people had. it right for the workers unions much protesting against the continued austerity

measures that have crippled because families face fighting fire on employment and to take my son employment cost to my back last year and you had to take the prime minister mario monti coming and he was a mess affects the country's finances but that's our economic medicine that he perspired has really angered it sally is here you can just see the large number of people that it turned out so this march today here is a third largest economy has seen its current course absolutely saw the impact that people's lives is a very significant of course this is something we see the c.e.o.'s home building for a long time you call greece ireland portugal spain spain which is just recently had a bailout the souls and a lot of people think it's going to be following in the first that some of the other countries had a full state bailout in recent times i remember just

a couple of years ago even love that you mention the possibility about a year i've been handing about the end of the year is 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 next are we close to saying goodbye altogether to the year right how will that impact this country that is it's really going to be the next this us. over in portugal tens of thousands have marched through the capitalists been venting their anger and hostility measures the protesters say the international monetary fund european central bank and european commission institutions that provide the bailout money are plundering the country and destroying manufacturing the government increase taxes and cut workers' benefits in return for the seven

hundred billion euro rescue package aimed at tackling crisis. another indebted nation greece is gearing up to make one of the most crucial financial decisions in recent history with its future in the euro support before sunday's election is said to be divided equally between two parties left wing series are strongly opposed to austerity and conservative group a new democracy in which wants to on a bailout obligations. greaves is in athens. this is really become a two horse race is 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 to 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 the 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 a president that people in greece are still suffering prosperity and a crippled economy. well an empty eurozone membership want mean an end to the problems for athens and this is according to financial journalist peterbilt. it's never happened like this before but a very very tightly knit union currency union has ever actually broken up the real

fear is that there could be immense. was going on for years and years and years between banks between. simply because nobody knows exactly what currency green run out would have to be repaid those in greece perhaps would be repaid with. devalued new drama but that of course could possibly put the banks in germany in france. trouble and so the real consequences are so enormous potentially enormous but nobody really wants to contemplate. much more lined up for you at r.t. dot com where we reveal that the fallout from america's agent orange may have spread from vietnam to japan here's a massive stops of the have a side buried for decades have poisoned a nearby island. and proves the settings of silicon valley titans yahoo and microsoft have been cashing in on personal user data

selling it to political campaign is. r t dot com. china has launched a milestone space mission to perform the first ever manda docking with beijing's are getting station and also onboard as china's first ever female astronaut she and the other two crewmembers will spend around ten days in orbit the spacecraft blasted our successful you from the launch pad in the gobby deserts in northern china the aim of the mission is to turn the cross the village and to dock at the opportunity if successful it could pave the way for beijing setting up its own manned space station by twenty twenty two rick mulligan managing editor of space dot com says china is going full steam ahead with this impression. this is their be . test to show that they can do it with people on board they can do it with a mixed crew a mix of 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 . still to come this hour broken promises. i think it's you i think it's hard for us to you know as being the sort of promoter of human rights while also keeping

people in prison for as long as they have without any trials or any chance that u.s. justice 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. well news in brief right now twin car bomb explosions have rocked the iraqi capital killing at least thirty two and injuring dozens the blast targeted neighborhoods where thousands of shia pilgrims had gathered to mark a religious festival the violence is the latest in a wave of attacks on shia muslims in recent weeks with seventy people killed on wednesday are. japan's ordered to restart two nuclear reactors are the first to go back online since all the country's plants were closed going last years of her because she might just accept that is is you know despite a mass public opposition could open the door to more restarts among japan's fifty working reactors so the fish oils are say the move will help to avoid power outages

and will speed up the economic recovery effort. saudi arabia's crown prince the next in line to the throne has died in a hospital outside the kingdom prince nayef was announced as the country's aide to saudi king abdullah in uptight about najaf was also the country's interior minister and deputy prime minister and new crown prince will now be chosen from among his brothers and half brothers. just doing your job could land you in trouble now especially seems if you're a journalist covering protests rallies in the u.s. some reporters have accuse of the police acting outside the law to suppress media freedom. reports. the. dramatic scenes unfolding in the u.s. a must cover band 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. something. and i just. tried to tell him that i'm a journalist. people out my state department greet fish and ask whether i have your policeman unfortunately that's one expired can you write for a daily russian newspaper and has worked in the us for the last three years i don't prove you have they don't really care that just you just business and you credentials can't really protect you sin 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 for 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 there's an efficient station give you brooms trash cans and child and you basically walking around sweeping the streets because of the debris paper cigarette about whatever kid who is now on probation

for six months it is an outrage in a country that professes to have a and john respect for the free press to be you know throwing 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 team who 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 d.c. p.d. processes things in oakland they require a local oakland press and i in new york they've been rejecting trespassers from

other jurisdictions have a first amendment which guarantees the freedom of the press i mean there is no nothing in the law which must please agencies to determine which press the legitimate press and which are not requiring a press pass has also been sending journalists through a vicious circle not just people work with guessing games of which state might be in next to cover story near impossibility in the fast paced 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. you're doing a video camera is a lot more dangerous to the stablish myth 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 this it you're going to party here. they're going ton i'm obey detention center infamous for its military trials and allegations of torture appears to be stuck in limbo president obama has failed to fulfill his promise to shut the facility down and residents in new york took to the issues onto the streets of the big apple. well. 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 that. i think he's i think is 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 ve issue of the world after a get is one time obey just an example of our imperialism of course it is an example you know because you want to impose democracy you know 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 justice 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 what's 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 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. get my remains open the bottom line is it probably won't be closed for a very long time. and it's an action packed saturday night of football russia trying to get to the quarterfinals of the european championships they are playing greece as i speak and then you're easier to bring us up to date entry do you have good news or bad news i

tell you well it's nearly all with half time approaching and if it stays like that russia will reach the last eight of this tournament to be fair russia have dominated the created several good chances but it does remain goalless and now in the other game tonight co-host poland against the czech republic that is also neil neil the poles need to win that one though while a draw would suit the czech so i should say also if russia. do suffer defeat tonight they would possibly be knocked out on goal difference so it is a bit nerve wracking while it stays neil neil crease of just how the shot. that was well saved by miller fear but it's nearly at the moment and if it stays like that russia will go through to the quarterfinals half time approaching ok thanks enjoy nailbiting stuff they will see you then for more on that now coming up next to the kaiser reports here and in our data on our top stories stay with r.t. .

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