would be soon which brightened if you knew me by phone from phones to the persian. don't auntie don't come. here is now in his state oh boy according to the country's president as rebel forces push to bring the fight straight to president bashar assad's doorstep i'm very final shot in damascus for you with the latest just ahead. for us on the pallet proves a new bill on visa bans and sanctions against russian officials implicated in alleged human rights abuses in the latest diplomatic ground to hit ties between moscow and washington. as london prepare us for next month's olympic games the city's security operations are facing strong criticism.

i am in the russian capital you're watching r t. the syrian president has called on his newly sworn in ministers to do everything in their power to win what he called an ongoing war but shahrazad appeal follows a daring rebel assault on the outskirts of damascus while international efforts to and the conflict are being stepped up the reason ashleigh is in the syrian capital with the latest. this is the strongest statement from president bashar al assad since the uprising began sixteen months ago and i have to say that things that are indeed dramatic here on the ground the conflict is definitely escalate to a halt i'm old and one hundred people have reportedly been dead in the last in just the last twenty four hours and earlier on tuesday the rebels attacked the president's elite republican guard just a few kilometers from the mask assented and in the night before president bashar

assad's speech before a new cabinet we've been hearing the sounds of heavy explosions and tense shelling and opposition activist to have laid to colditz in the poorest day of clashes between the rebels and government all forces say this is the uprising began last march the government. later after what happened on tuesday that a number of terrorists have been killed many of them have been captured including foreign nationals but we also hear in about a dramatic arrival just from the ministry saw it as well unfortunately we have to admit that there is little the international community can do about the syrian crisis at this point but still we are we see some international really after its own the table the u.n. observer treaty mission here in syria has been suspended since become too risky for and to dangerous for about three hundred more tourists to work here on the ground and then for now the mission remains a frozen and since there is no progress here well we been hearing from u.n.

special only envoy kofi annan and his peers who should hold these conferences a place that we can thank you leverage and the idea is to bring global and regional powers who have influence on both damascus and the rebel forces and see to and seeing can hammer out and trying to hammer out a new approach to is solution to the syrian crisis and the idea is to invite see raised ally iran this is this something most code. has supported but it's been rejected by washington because u.s. and its allies have a road contact group of series called friends of syria but the problem with these groups is that the they've only been dealing always with the rebels but with only one side and always ignored damascus so they will be meeting next week as well and of course this is anything but not easy in the tensions here in the region. where you can actually reporting there now yes

a story in general who are in doesn't think coffee out and peace plan is doomed as long as syrian ally iran is made part of the international coalition to solve the crisis. i think there's still hope that it might work keep in mind that the north atlantic nations where there are allies particularly saudi arabia or relatively isolated on this barbara think the international community is more the loss of the libyan adventure recognizing that these crocodile tears are being shed about civilian deaths in syria are basically a cultural scene change. international community does not want that the happen basically because of the steadfastness of moscow and beijing and iran. and i think it's very important for the iranians to be represented in this upcoming meeting or real party in interest and it would be contrary to international peace and security continued to be excluded from such of course. well you're watching our

team in just a few minutes i had an inconvenient truth they are the sour we report on how b.b.c. journalist twisted the facts in their pursuit of a bigger story while covering revolutions in the arab world. plus an israeli citizen fighting extradition to his country of birth where he's wanted for alleged war crimes experts say the case could open a pandora's box find out why in just a few minutes. and it takes for between russia and the u.s. has been instigated by an american senate committee and they'll unanimously approve of washington on tuesday slap sanctions and these are restrictions on russian officials accused of alleged human rights abuses the new measure is in reaction to the death of russian a lawyer sergei magnitsky he was jailed in two thousand and eight on charges of fraud and tax evasion. has the details. the senate foreign relations committee has passed this so-called magnitsky law now at this point it has little to do with the

actual person that the proposed legislation was named after sergei magnitsky who tragically died in a washington jail back in two thousand and nine the wording of this new punitive legislation is much broader if passed by the senate it would require the united states to deny visas and freeze the assets of russians generally accused of human rights abuses so even though the wording is extremely vague the draft was unanimously passed by the senate committee on foreign relations the fact of the matter is that the u.s. has already barred eleven russian officials allegedly implicated in the death of sergei magnitsky from entering the united states but the names of those people have not been disclosed russia retaliated last year by taking similar measures against eleven american officials accused of human rights violations in u.s. secret prisons in iraq afghanistan guantanamo president putin called this does deaths in prison and tragedy it's being investigated by russian authorities. this kind of legislation as interference in their internal affairs a kind of interfere is that will most likely backfire also made it clear that they

will be forced to adopt similar measures and the potential list of american officials involved in human rights violations around the world can be very long including torture practices again in iraq of galveston guantanamo so this could trigger a series of tit for tat moves which will have. relations between the countries as far as the obama administration they feel working hard on russia's admission into the world trade organization on lifting the outdated jackson invented commandment in order to give american businesses a better access into the russian market and later this summer congress is set to vote on a legislation that will strike down this soviet era amendment to which would decades had limited u.s. trade with russia but there are attempts in congress to attach this new human rights bill to the upcoming bill on establishing a permanent. normal trade relations with russia that's what the act is called and frankly moscow is worried about the attempts to replace one punitive anti russian

legislation with another. reporting they're now a political consultant they know wagner thinks the move by u.s. lawmakers is ill timed and ill advised the bigger issue for americans is what this may mean for american businesses in russia that's a very big issue another question is whether it's going to be conducive to eliciting a cooperative response in foreign affairs from the russian government i don't see how it's going to be less at that it seems to me that it's very ill timed to have this kind of sort of cold war era rhetoric flying about in washington at a time when it really needs russia's cooperation on a number of very important issues seems to me what the u.s. ought to be doing is finding a way to cooperate with russia on these issues rather than inviting it to have some sort of a difficult relationship going forward but maybe she has acknowledged that as

journalists got carried away in covering the arab spring and let excitement affect professional neutrality that's after a report was released jestingly u.k.'s number one media outlet was not accurate enough in their assessment of the revolutions t.j. walker c.e.o. of media training worldwide says politics are always attached. many many major news organizations like to maintain relations with those in power so it looks like a revolution isn't going to work certainly there is a desire to be seen as still someone who can deal with the powers that be so there may be some politics there let's not forget the b.b.c. used to be the gold standard in part because they just didn't have that much competition these days there's so much more competition they don't necessarily have more resources have more news and videos twenty four hours a day you can log on to our website r.t. dot com here's a taste of what's waiting for you there. while football leads to firing why

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watching r.t. now while european governments are more focused on tracking terrorist cells across the globe they face another fight at home security experts say domestic terrorism has gained a considerable foothold in the continent explains web savvy users are increasingly the victims of radical ideologies. in the war on terror in me funny is raging in europe at the moment we're seeing an ongoing battle of ideologies people

pushing the boundaries of freedom of speech with anti islamic rhetoric was at the same time extremist views are being expressed under the banner of freedom of religion this ongoing struggle is overshadowing a much more serious problem the self radicalization the growing number of young europeans these were not terrorists that. immigrated smuggled themselves secretly into europe they were in europe already why i'm going to terrorists to me mary actually a small part of the global threat they have a disproportionate impact is a possible carrying citizens who understand the countries they live in have good connections they're easy access to information about how they're going to be radicalized or have been it's basically the internet because it's largely uncontrolled if you know where to look you know you can find anything you need to build to play and to carry out a terror attack so the young internet savvy generation you no longer need

a mosque to arrest coming into contact with radical extremist materials now just a few clicks away investigative journalist the nearby atty has been closely following the rise of fundamentalist websites of many not only muslim. convert the. beloved and this is a danger such hate lead to radicalism and radicalism lead to terrorism but it's not just radical muslims his views have been carefully monitored the rise of vanity islamic sentiment in the west has also been steadily growing what i really really have a problem with is this third totalitarianism called islam you have not chosen which we have defeated you have communism which is more or less defeated and the third one is islam. the danger posed by radical anti immigrant thinking is

a tragically demonstrated in the to rethink attacked by and is daring brave it in no way it was an event that made the world take pause with increasingly anti islamic rhetoric coming not just from controversial speakers the from european politicians questions are now being asked about just how responsible these these really are where i see the threat is the young unemployed who are told and shown repeatedly you're not really one of us it doesn't even matter if you've been born here but if they have not been integrated and those will be millions couple that with a religious valve relief for anger which shows the internet actually your brother's abroad are being mutilated blown up or killed by executive people where you live. and then on the whole a mixture a very explosive mixture for the future radicalization and recruitment to jihadist

terrorist groups is cause for continued concern simply pointing the finger of blame has proved it is dangerous and in the war of ideologies in europe right now it's become hard to know you just who it is that poses the greatest terror threat. to the. us take a look at some other stories from around the world libyan officials deny claims of the country's x. premier was abused after being extradited to tripoli but died the movie's lawyer says a former official was beaten and hospitalized a part of the sixty seven year old was a score of from tunisia on sunday that is the first high ranking official to be returned home to say struggle muti was the last prime minister mark adelphi and is facing charges of crimes against the libyan people. a boat has reportedly capsized off the australian territory of christmas island in the indian ocean the vessel was carrying one hundred fifty people trying to claim asylum governments as is

responding to a report of a vessel in distress one hundred twenty kilometers north of the island this comes less than one week after more than ninety asylum seekers died when a boat capsized in the same area. these twenty four people in thirteen different countries have been arrested in a u.s. led investigation targeting online financial fraud the operation tracked those buying and selling personal data online through an f.b.i. run form the two years staying was the largest crackdown against criminals who specialize in stealing and trafficking credit card information on the internet officials say the investigations protect the more than four hundred thousand potential victims and prevented around two out of five million dollars worth of fraud. to israel now where former bosnian serb soldier is appealing a decision to extradite him to his homeland the man currently holds an israeli passport but is wanted in bosnia for a low. war crimes experts say the case set so dangerous for us as artie's falsely

are now reports. behind these walls a soldier awaits his fate a decision with dramatic consequences not only for him but for the whole state of israel the fact that israel is willing to cooperate with an extradition request involving a soldier put every israeli soldier in real danger touch on his husband alexander speak of which is a bosnian serb who only got israeli nationality when he married her years after he allegedly carried out his crimes sarajevo accuses him of being part of a firing squad that executed more than a thousand bosnian muslims in one thousand nine hundred five as part of what became known as this weapon it's a massacre just a lot it's hard to live in uncertainty it's been more than a year that we've been living like this not knowing what will happen my husband is not a murderer he did nothing wrong he's a man with a good heart and he could not have killed anybody why do people believe such lies it's the same charge his defense lawyer is arguing it should be noted that

alexander said coverage. he he's telling a very very unlikely war can believe that he wasn't presenting it during the action at all and that he didn't take part in mass extermination and in order to charge anybody with a crime of genocide they should they should prove that he intended to. thanks terminate the. muslims as a nation and they should give that and evidence the special proof but even without that evidence the israeli courts have a radio agree to extradite him speak of which is currently awaiting a decision on his appeal and if he goes that could be the beginning of a slippery slope then more for months with mr smith goes which is a simple soldier who carried out the orders given to him by his commanders i can think of cases in which every israeli soldier can be put in the same situation having carry on an order and this is the most dangerous precedent in this request

of the israeli soldiers and officials have themselves been accused of the same accusations spectacle which is charged with should the courts here decide to uphold the extradition it opens the gates for palestinians and others to now demand that israeli soldiers on so for their actions policy r t tel aviv. and london olympics are just one month away but the city is a curate operations are coming under attack thousands of weapons clad police and soldiers will take to the streets all in the name of public protection but skeptics believe the firearms won't actually held those inside the olympic park because basic security there isn't up to par laurus misreports. london two thousand and twelve is almost upon us and with just one month to go it's not just the athletes who are warming up a massive security operation is also getting into gear we've got battleships on the river thames with missiles we've got pilotless drones with laser guided bombs

missile batteries dotted around the city personnel with untold numbers of firearms or you've got to question the probe proportionality of this london two thousand and twelve is actually starting to look more like a security event. not a sporting event. a security event with a little bit of incidental sport on the the soil. lympics is the u.k.'s biggest peace time security operation and the numbers of personnel are staggering on the ground during the games they'll be twelve and a half thousand police officers supported to the occasion by the state at the heart thousand soldiers but insiders are saying basic security here at the olympic park is seriously lacking investigative journalist li hazeldean is under cover with g four s. the security firm that won the four hundred fifty million dollars contract for the games he's posing as a trainee and says rule recruits vetting and training

a substandard i was asked during the training exercises to be a would be terrorist i was given a knife a real guns ammunition and a fake i.e.d. the gun was in my bag breezer didn't see it it is a good several times he still didn't find it he got behind one. didn't he hadn't turned on me says he's raised his concerns with g four s. but was told to mind his own business no one from the company was available to comment for this report meanwhile the organizing committee remains resolute about safety security is absolutely the top priority for us and we want people to come to visit london in twenty twelve to be absolutely confident they're going to be safe and secure and you'll go through security and the x. ray machine all of that anything to bring you with you that way you can check that anybody coming into the hall isn't bringing anything within the can do anybody any damage that's not lose experience of the operation and he's pessimistic about the

safety of visitors to the olympic park huge knife in there you know there's one right if i mean one person and fifty people go through different pierces that's fifty rounds of ammunition in the olympics and that's a massacre right then and there if a terrorist or a terrorist organization is intent on getting into the olympics all they have to do at the moment is queue up. the head. says he's the organization you can't guarantee the security of the games watch that and people are asking is the point of the heavy artillery if the park itself is left in. london. well time to check out the latest business news now marina is there at the business desk what's happening this hour hi mary now of course this hour still for an asia which is the only one trading will be open in half an hour from now so i'll have those figures for you in the next hour as this is the spot for alice second look

what's happening on the asian trading floors now they're gaining the hang seng is the five gain in over one percent and investors are tracking gains that we saw on the wall street as well as a year and they're optimistic about the housing in. about that in a second in fact let's take a look at what happened on wall street on the tuesday as i said we saw gains there and we had two reports in five and americans chose to focus on the positive side of things because of one report said that the u.s. home prices climbed to their highest level since the beginning of the year in fact there but also we had consumer confidence which declined for the fourth month in a row and is now at the lowest level since january we saw that decided not to say that as much as the walls of side of things are let's move on and take a look at currencies when it comes to the ruble it gains against both the major currencies the euro and the dollar and two that will give you the updated picture

of the us markets open when it comes to the euro it's still flies against the euro zone and if i stay in the with the eurozone or it's these have suggested creating a european treasury which would have a power over a national budget proposal as part of it's designed to strengthen the euro zone and prevents a crisis it also includes measures like limits in the amount of that. for individual countries as well as common policies on employment and taxation however critics say the latest suggestions will not address the current debt problems. here in russia as i said less than half an ounce of the markets open this is the closing picture from the r.t.s. over two percent and all of this is coming as crude prices are. still trading. stephanie much better let's take a look at them and see where they are right now as you can see light sweet is now still trading under eighty dollars per barrel which is very important and we're

seeing losses in general was seen a lot of volatility with oil prices right now in fact when it comes to light sweet chad one of the all that's a valley in the past couple of months now is staying with the commodities market will also know that for aluminum their demand the chris bites twenty percent but we spoke to the c.e.o. of alcoa which is one of the world's top producers of aluminum and he says that he reminds of the message about the industry despite the financial markets. twenty percent price decline is painful at the same time seeing tremendous growth as we've seen ten percent. girls last year we project seven percent world market grows this year we've seen that physic is very very strong if you want to. you would have to buy a physical delivery premium physical delivery of premiums are at a record high. you have to put these things together the whole.

shadows of the whole course very strongly by this question of the wrong how is europe going to be developed it's always shadowing the pricing. let's make no mistakes that has very little to do with the fundamentals that existed no market fundamentals are very strong demand is very strong we're entering a lot of additional industry. and i'm very optimistic. this is all to want to play well in the russian market. as you can see they're living in prices have the increased twenty percent. or that's it from this edition of business for you marina all right thanks very much indeed and see you next hour in the mean time i'll bring you the headlines here in our state.

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