it is due to an escalation of violence the rebels and the government have abandoned any commitment to the ceasefire this is the syrian opposition leader had repeated calls for military intervention in the country what is revelation a report on health syrians are dealing with the ongoing bloodshed. this is how human skin looks after it's been burnt by an electric cable mostafa shows us the fresh signs of torture an ardent supporter of syrian president assad he was kidnapped in his native city of lip fell a popular not being held me for three days being all the tired they told me is because you don't support our revolution rubbish they didn't care about the revolution either all they wanted was money that they contacted my family asked two million syrian pounds for me is this what they're fighting for. most of us wife sold the house and scraped a half of the ransom and the father of four mystifies now looking for money again to hide his family model motive of this revolution if you want to call it that

encouraged criminals of all current and these people they listen to what world leaders a new year repeat that assad is evil and start thinking that they have the right to do bad things to all those who sit with the president. syria once one of the safest places in the middle east is now one of the most dangerous even for those away from politics for twenty years this elderly lady has been some in vine leaves while showing us how to cook broke syrian donmar. this syria she once loved. that most syrians don't support anybody there in the middle but all suffer anyway they learn how to be afraid how to be careful and how to be angry we were happy before. she says is even harder now to get meat for your blog i heard a butcher from damascus says it could soon be even in. possible ally. used to bring

animals from all around the country but roads are now too dangerous to travel the result my business is declining prices are a lose lose situation. while the manager it keeps his boutique hotel in downtown damascus running even though his seldom any guests to look after the conflict torn country is now a long way from people's idea of a top holiday destination. here with all my people are afraid even if they want to come they can't make a reservation at the world sites like oking dot com or hotels dot com they block syria. surprisingly though we meet a guest here even more surprising he says his business is growing these days dafydd is the chief executive of a media broadcasting company. big cheers big for themselves but each said only once pictures that speak for them and the more convincing the message the

higher the chances of victory and they're ready to pay for it even though the prose for air time has almost doubled you see. the pictures are far transmits no matter from which side of the conflict they come send a clear message violent reality is all too familiar here in syria even to kids and we hear that in the last hour i know what's going on they kill and should people people die. who knows what kind of syria this six year old girl will face when she grows up in fifteen months of crisis syria has suffered deeply violence has raged sanctions have shaken economy and crime has flourished but as calls for military foreign intervention getting louder syrians say they still hold out hope for peace even if they're prepared for more sufferings before they get there. or if notion our team syria. returning to. top story the

coalition looks likely now in greece results put the new democracy party ahead with almost thirty percent of the vote i'm reading at the moment well let's now talk to journalists. the pro. uneconomic. although we are now looking like there is a slight. but there is talk of a coalition with socialist party but. they might reject a deal that doesn't involve the left wing. do you really think there is a chance that a coalition will actually fail again now in greece. i think. i think of the main the only solution at this point is the whole of the the formation of coalition government but the main problem at this point i think that the.

government then what would be in it then. i think. is that it is the most important think at this point is any coalition. i think the time around i think. this week will be i think on wednesday all. because someone. for the. party they say they do actually want to keep. pointing out the next it would be too much for the rest of europe to support do you think well obviously there's a reason. if it. is rejected on the.

i. could still be able to keep a single currency. no i don't think so i think the only other europeans are totally clearing the di lima. if we negotiate the bailout plan yes we can be inside the game if not then you won't be totally kicked out from the group and you know. about the german chancellor angela merkel she wants to keep greece in the euro but what if this is as a result of this athens is actually kicked out just give us an idea what the impact could be on the entire year is so much in the media that the future of the eurozone really does hang in the balance over this particular election in greece. exactly you know i think that if if greece is forced to leave the eurozone then there will be a domino effect in all the in all of the other corner no of the countries that are paid out like spain for response or italy so i think that it is not and it is not

an easy decision to take out greece from the eurozone because of the domino effect but that this may cause leave it there thank you very much and the crystals are thought is generated by little analysts joining us there where it's all happening in athens thank you very much for your perspective on the latest developments there thank you. egyptians have reached the final day all of the presidential runoff in the country that will decide the future are off to eighteen months of political chaos and instability the choice between the u.s. educated islamist mohamed morsi and a former mubarak official week following the voting in. whoever wins will take office in a climate of chaos confusion and a great deal of political uncertainty there is no constitution there is no condiments and the ruling supreme council of armed forces holds the legislative and executive power now what makes this particularly alarming is that these elections

were supposed to be the next step in egypt's transition to a real democracy it is still unclear what the plan was the new president will have and indeed what his mandate will be now the one off is between two candidates the man put forward by the muslim brotherhood as dr mohamed morsi and he has been campaigning as a voice of the revolution on the other hand there's a mature fake who is being supported by the army he is campaigning for law and order and he was the last prime minister in the era of the for me gyptian president hosni mubarak at this late stage it is still unclear who will win both have support but at the same time there is a lot of anger and apathy on the streets of cairo some of this is in light of recent developments this week when the constitutional court ruled that it was dissolving the parliament and the announcement was also made that the military police would be able to waste and to take a poll this might have the effect of causing some egyptians to come out and cast

their ballot and if indeed they do they might be voting for most seats but again it is still too difficult to predict who will be the winner i've been speaking to people here at this polling station one woman told me that she was corrected that mubarak was not standing that she would vote for him another person telling me that they believe the muslim brotherhood is the only political party that can be trusted to move egypt forward policy ati cairo. a fresh attempt to find a solution to iran's nuclear issue will be made in moscow monday as we reported a little later in our tea with a group of six world. preparing to sit at the negotiating table but there's a verb. was trying to stall the process find out who that is in a few minutes here on r.t. . on thursday the u.k. supremes court dismissed his latest appeal to reopen the case against his extradition to sweden the judges voted unanimously dismissing the bit as being

without merit but when you take a faces deportation to sweden where he is wanted on sexual assault charges sandra has been on the house arrest in britain for some five hundred days says the case is politically motivated and that his final destination will be washington over it now seems that he would be the only whistleblower to face a crackdown on reports of the bill being debated in the british parliament which if adopted could discourage people from exposing the truth. the war on whistle blowing it's a war of attrition good one to some who has nothing against people that have a lot of wealth and lot of power behind them is a battle against corruption. secrecy this video named collateral murder is just one of many wiki leaks revelations exposing real crimes revolutionizing whistleblowing and tearing down the divides between governments and ordinary people in the government year is exposing wrongdoing

complete risky business as wendy addison found out back in two thousand whilst working as a treasurer of the south african company leisure net she discovered the c.e.o.'s with stealing money from shareholders and sending it to offshore accounts and she blew the whistle it was adept at the point that my whole life fell apart. lost my career it was because literally. i started getting death threats anonymously and there were occasions where i was almost inclined to consider accepting society completely. and this is a very common thing for. talking about suicide despite risking. we thing wendy was in poor old in a lengthy legal wrangling and it would be more than a decade before those who committed the crime went to jail modern whistleblowing techniques have been giving people more power to take on big corporations and even governments now the proposed changes to the law potentially threatening the

protections also at a time when the culture surrounding whistleblowing be making big leaps forward the law could be set to take a big step back the problems are being caused by this the enterprise and regulatory reform bill which is currently making its way through parliament and one small to squeak line buried away in the text referring to a public interest test we were really worried that putting in a public interest test into the legislation will have a chilling effect on the ability of workers to speak up a member of the international whistleblowing research network and an employment lawyer david lewis tells us the proposed test has dropped a bomb on whistleblowing provisions the great virtue of the existing provisions is there's no public interest it was a very simple test as long as you had enormous motive you could be sure and it found that you would be protected now individuals who. use the provisions will have to satisfy public interest to us make it very difficult for people to advise them

the government archy's that the changes are aimed at closing a loophole this meant that employees with personal grievances a for employment contract have been able to use the whistle blame provisions but the son this will be seen as just the latest measure making it harder out the truth. of course is this trend. which is a very serious one crackdown and whistle blowing blowing the whistle have to differing degrees had their lives changed their reputations threatened or ruined their freedoms removed but in the process they've revealed secrets that the rich and the powerful never wanted us to know. i was being told i was doing the wrong thing. and yet it felt so right for me and i knew that i was doing the right thing their battle highlights the importance of protecting whistleblowers and the public's right to know something they all say was well worth fighting for sarah.

lunde. all the details about the santa case are available on our website as well as the entire series of his talk show here on r t in a special section on our website it's called party dot com just click on to that by the way there's a lot more online of course on our website at the moment including sporting officials are under investigation for allegedly trying to cash in on the twenty twelve london olympics by selling tickets on the black market. also sales of u.s. weapons are brought shot up seventy percent this year with the pentagon reportedly ready to give military hardware to some countries in russia's backyard for free. exit polls suggest president francois hollande socialists have won an absolute majority in the french parliament if the results of the second round of the voting are confirmed it would mean orlando's got enough support to fulfill his pledge of economic growth instead of belt tightening but now the noose international consultant and former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament says he doubts on and will deliver on his promises. a people oriented to call it socialist if you

will and get austerity policies exactly what european union needs but will this country in france i doubt it if it's true teaches any lesson the socialist party of france ever since the election of president. has gone it's taken up a neo liberal policies privatizing i think in the first two months maybe the first year he will take some tepid steps in that direction but slowly he will start using european union as an excuse for just keeping the austerity plan going and for the growth plan be something minor think the european central bank the i.m.f. are nearly brought institutions and basically what they are now doing is doing exactly what happened in the seventy's and not in america and that is the deconstruction or if you want a total destruction of the social welfare state as it was established after the second world war for the benefit of banks for financial funding so that each etc

it's not it's not a secret what we call the so-called regrettable consequence of these dollars we are actually but i think it is very much object to aim at iran's top nuclear negotiator is in moscow for a fresh round of talks over terrans nuclear program the two day meeting between six world powers and tehran starts on monday the previous negotiations in april and may brought little result from tehran tentatively agreeing to let u.n. inspectors into a military site suspected of carrying out weapons related tests the war powers also want to run to stop enriching uranium which they believe paves the way for wiring weapons grade materials in return they're offering to help with medical research on aircraft parts over some critics say the close relationship between the u.s. and israel won't allow any breakthrough to come out of the talks. i don't think you can expect quite a lot from what from the talks i think that israel will continue to for so washington and not to make any kind of headway. with the iran war. israel does

theer that there might be some prospects of a solution between the obama administration and to her own so it's doing all it can and obama from now at least from local scene until now has gained the reputation of giving in and not being very strong when it comes to confronting these really pressures so now an election year and especially where obama is trying to get the support of the conservative jewish votes i don't expect anything significant will happen from now at least until the elections take place the sanctions which the american administration has imposed to some extent that has been a factor in preventing the israelis from actually going ahead and launching a strike it's always possible that israel especially this current government might go ahead and launch a strike and this is something related to netanyahu and his own personal mission of the u.s. and the obama administration keeps on reassuring for example that it is tackling this situation it has made the statement time and again and that actually builds

genuine fears on the part of the obama administration that israel might actually go ahead and attack iran unilaterally. thousands of opposition protesters spilled out into moscow's streets on tuesday in the first major rally since president putin's return to the top job last month the demonstration was attended by groups from across russia's political spectrum from the far left to right wing nationalist the right was peaceful and went without incident unlike the previous major rally on may the sixth hijacked by radical groups that saw clashes and injuries among both police and protesters this resulted in the new law bringing fines for those breaking rally regulations in line with european standards violators will now have to pay up to seven thousand euros or do two hundred hours of community service. time talk to you on some world news in brief you the sound our world update at least twenty one people are being killed and one hundred injured after churches in northern nigeria were targeted in a series of explosions the violence prompted protests in the state of could do an

area known for its religious tensions this was the latest in a string of attacks against christians in the region the radical sect because it has previously targeted church services across the country killing hundreds. thirty minutes or died in the blaze that broke out in a jail in southeast turkey business that they're betting in money truly to be triggered by accusations of poor conditions police fired tear gas and water cannon relatives of inmates who had rushed to the scene on hearing the news of the fire security forces say they were responding to stones being thrown. libyan troops have been sent to the country's west where days of clashes between rival militias a spot renewed violence the sixty people killed and over eighty wounded in fighting between the revolution former gadhafi loyalists the violence comes just weeks before libya is due to hold elections for a national assembly. u.s. drone strikes in pakistan show no signs of ending with three suspected militants killed in the latest attack america continues to use the aerial threat despite

protests from islam about that it's against international law but it's not just terrorists who are dying more than eight hundred civilians have paid within the lines for the so-called u.s. war on terror since president obama took office which is going to report. reports about you was 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. it was posted online with titles which are generally reserved for the living leaders have not confirmed or denied levy's death the video could have been taped before he says that that's true so he might as well be dead but the confusion has once again raised the question of who's really dying in those bombings and how much do we actually know because it's all very murky what we do

know is that the obama administration has dramatically ramped up drone strikes in pakistan around story hundred strikes since he took office it's this area bordering afghanistan which is under 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 at 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 by. supply routes to afghanistan they still remain close by the way a new wave of extremism has been steered by those strikes but it's also interesting

u.s. officials have indirectly accused this bureau of investigative journalism which works to shed light on civilian deaths in those drone strikes of helping terrorists one might argue that this label terrorist helper is becoming an all too convenient tool for the government to brush off investigative journalism then there was this yemeni journalist who reported about the drone strike in yemen in two thousand and nine twenty one woman and fourteen children died there the journalist is now in jail reportedly at the personal request of president obama himself. there's this line of thought in washington it's all perfectly fine as long as we're fighting the bad guys the president approves the list of those bad guys by the way the kill list on secret evidence with no review but does the argument we're fighting the bad guys

mean that the world should keep quiet about the execution of innocent people in washington i'm going to check on. his own struggles to break free from the economic crisis reductions in public spending leaving many vulnerable citizens without help rehab clinics are left cash strapped as the number of drug abusers grows rapidly laura smith has a story it's a tale of two cities a happy go lucky locals and tourists shop drink and make merry rubbing shoulders with the seedy underbelly telamon blocks where the poor struggle to make ends meet and drug workers estimate one person in sixty takes heroin to make a good and runs a needle exchange and rehab program where he sees marginalized people who take a cocktail of drugs leading often to cry and recessions making it worse. he's seeing eleven new people a week when people have less disposable income and can't find work or can't find no

. more recourse. you know. takes off on people you know it's a two way street between drugs and crime and knoll not his real name is recovering from years of drug addiction his is a story of economic privation and boredom leading to drugs and the breakdown of relationships with family friends and community my mother was a single more. we lived on social welfare and my father would have been around. to. know did everything except heroin finding his brother dead from an overdose as a teenager saw to that he's in a four month rehab program partly funded at least for now by the state work isn't getting any easier for the people who run vital drug programs and drop incenses

needle exchanges seventeen week residential course it's none of that is cheap to run and despite increasing numbers of addict desperate to get a drug rehab center the seeing their government funding for like every year state drug program contributions are being slashed by ten percent a year and for them at various drop in center for the homeless waiting lists a growing from a few days to weeks or months he says addicts need immediate attention something they're less and less likely to get the because the say no point in even trying i'm never going to do it so how they can access to treatment programs to my mind is vitally in this fight against drugs and programs and. hopelessly inadequate and as the recession bites even harder they won't get any better with disastrous consequences for addicts to communities and for society.

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