syria is now in a state so war causing to the country's president has rebel forces pushed to bring the fight straight to president bashar assad's doorstep i'm ready for that into mass just for you with the latest just ahead. a u.s. senate panel approves a new bill on visa bans and sanctions against russian officials implicated in alleged human rights abuses in the latest diplomatic route to hit ties between moscow and washington. as london prepares for next month's winter games the city's security operations are facing strong criticism. markets kick off the trade in session then pause the sword this decline in oil prices i have all the latest on

the business update shortly. eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r.t. with me arena joshie in syria gunmen have reportedly stormed the hat quarters of a pro-government news channel killing three employees this comes after the country's president called on his newly sworn in ministers to do everything in their power to win what he called an ongoing war i will respond in this year in 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 escalated fault moulden 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 past the center and in the night before president bashar assad's speech before a new cabinet we've been hearing the sounds of heavy explosions and intense shelling and opposition activists to have laid to colditz the surest day of clashes between the rebels and governmental forces saying this is the uprising began last march the government. later after 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 hearing about a dramatic arrival just from the ministry so it's 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 where we see some international really after its own the table the u.n. observer treaty mission here in syria has been suspended it's become too risky for and to dangerous for about three hundred monitors 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 own envoy kofi annan his his pushing for the international conference take place the weekend in geneva and the idea is to bring global and regional powers who have influence on both damascus and the rebel forces and see to and the kind of hammer all of them trying to hammer out a new approach to 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 we need to get together and let's be serious let's be serious although you know national selfish agendas in the context of syria have not worked the only thing which they have helped generate is a further. vision of the situation of growing growing while and so if it's time to get serious and to make sure that we will exercise our leverage on where we can

exercise leverage in syria in order to revert to the implementation of course. the u.s. and its allies have a road and contact group of series called friends of syria but the problem with this group is that they've they've only been dealing always with the rebels but with only one side they will be meeting next week as well and of course this is anything but not easing the tensions here in the region. or even as the reporting there now u.s. historian gerald horne doesn't think kofi annan peace plan is doomed as long as syria now iran is made part of the international equation to solve the crisis. i think there's still hope that it might work keep in mind that the north atlantic nations and where there are allies particularly saudi arabia or relatively isolated on his better i think the international community is more of the us and the libyan adventure recognizing that these crocodile tears that are being shared about

civilian deaths in syria are basically a cover for regime change a lot of libya international community does not want that the happen basically because of the steadfastness of moscow and beijing and iran who i might add i think it's very important for the iranians to be represented in this upcoming meeting they are in real party in interest and it would be contrary to international peace and security if they continue to be excluded from such important gather. radical islamists are reportedly becoming more active in syria and other arab countries and they had of britain seventy five says the tran is a direct result of the arab spring which the u.s. and its ally supported peace activists dr frank alam says nato policies are in fact provoking and stimulating al qaida. my point is why be even exist. you know to for dignity and to overthrow some dictators but when you've got an operation like nato. in pakistan afghanistan and iraq of course it's

going to break them and give them the opportunity as you know al qaeda has urged its leadership and surge of people to go to syria and get training and go to southern turkey and also in libya libya has become a major training center and i thought it was a fact and i would quit with some of the rebel militia against gadhafi but you say one al-qaeda fighter is worth ten of us. so just a few minutes ahead and inconvenient truth. were we were warned how b.b.c. journalists exaggerate a fact in their pursuit of a bigger story while covering revolutions in the arab world. plus he's really citizen finding extradition to his country of birth where he is wanted for alleged war crimes experts say the case could open a pandora's box find out why in just a few minutes. and your tips for tat rao between russia and the u.s.

has been instigated by an american senate committee a billion analysts lee approved in washington on tuesday slap sanctions and visa restrictions on russian officials accused of alleged human rights abuses the new measure is in reaction to the death of russian lawyer sergei magnitsky who was jailed in two thousand and eight on charges of fraud and tax evasion i just get extra can has the details. 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 question 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 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 deaths in prison a 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 walls can be very long including torture practices again a rack of ghana's then guantanamo so this could trigger a series of tit for tat moves which will aggravate 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 amendment in order to give american businesses have 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 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 russian legislation with another. reporting there and political consultant things 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 it 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. still to come radical ideas take hold of you up as an idea spread as fast as those opposing them as governments struggle to understand which sentiment poses more of a threat. now the b.b.c. 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 jesting the u.k.'s leading news broadcaster was not accurate enough in its assessment of the revolutions that accuse the organization of being slow to highlight human rights abuses by rebel factions in the leaving war and underestimating the violent nature of the syrian uprising as

a began it also says the b.b.c. failed to deliver russia's in china's positions on events unfolding in the middle east and north africa t.j. walker is c.e.o. of media training worldwide says the criticism comes as no surprise. 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 and again it's always sexier to go after a story where there is a revolution and there is a toppling of a regime rather than an uprising that and the stamp down so it doesn't mean it was

good journalistic decision but that is that is reality when it comes to major networks because it doesn't matter how rich you are as a network there's always more stories than there are places where you can send journalists and t.v. crews and production crews you do have to make choices in retrospect perhaps they were. a little different right. more news and videos twenty four hours a day log on to our website r.t. dot com here's a taste of what's waiting for you there. when football leads to fiery why i comment about ukrainian women caused to radio host to lose their jobs after the country's recent win over sweden. the loch ness monster exists that's according to one school want to american know which ones to extreme lengths to try to disprove the theory of evolution. europe security experts are sounding the alarm claiming domestic terrorism has gained

a considerable foothold in the continent they say web savvy users are increasingly being seduced by radical ideologies not only islamist but also right way their first now explains. in the war on terror to 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 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 itself radicalization the growing number of young europeans these were not terrorists that immigrated smuggled themselves secretly into europe they were in europe already well known going terrorists to me mary actually a small part of the global threats they have a disproportionate impact is that possible pairing citizens who understand the countries they live in and have good connections they're easy access to information

about how they're going to be radicalized or have already been that's basically the internet because it's largely uncontrolled if you know where to go you know you can find anything you need to build to plan and to carry out a terror attack so the young internet savvy generation you no longer need a month to rest coming into contact with radical extremists and. serials now just a few clicks away investigative journalist the nearby atty has been closely following the rise of fundamentalist websites and many not only muslim but. there are converted to islam have sympathy with terror and beloved and this is vengeance such hate leads to radicalism and radicalism lead to terrorism but it's not just radical muslims his views have been carefully monitored the rise of anti 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 lots of them which we have defeated you have communism which is more or less defeated and the third one is. the danger posed by radical anti immigrant thinking it's a tragically demonstrated in the 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 speak is the from the european politicians questions are now being asked about just how responsible these these really are well you 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 for relief valve. which

shows you. actually your brothers abroad are being. killed by executive people where you live and that is a holy mixture a very explosive mixture for the future was radicalized in the cream into jihadist terrorist groups is cause for continued concern simply pointing the finger of blame has proved just as dangerous and in the war of ideologies in europe right now it's become hard to know you just who it is that uses the greatest terror threat. the end of. last week a look at some other stories from around the world libyan officials deny claims that the country's expert here was abused after being extradited to tripoli. moodys lawyer says a former official was beaten and hospitalized upon arrival the sixty seven year old was a scored from tunisia on sunday as a first high ranking official to be returned home to face trial. last prime

minister of one of khadafi and is facing charges of crimes against the libyan people. one hundred twenty three people have been rescued from a capsized boat off the australian territory of christmas island in the indian ocean israelian prime minister says most if not all passengers have been brought to safety this comes less than one week after more than ninety asylum seekers died when a boat turned over in the same area. at least twenty four people in thirteen different countries have been arrested in a u.s. led investigation tarty on live financial fraud the operation tracked those buying and selling personal data online through an f.b.i. run form the two here are staying was the largest crackdown against from those who specialize in stealing and trafficking credit card information on the internet official say the investigations protect the more than four hundred thousand potential victims and prevent round two hundred five million dollars worth of

france. iraq is urging you to reconsider and rainy bargo which is set to take effect on the first of july the country's foreign minister urged europe to avoid actions that may jeopardize its future fuel supplies he says more pressure could be applied have to iran continues to ignore demands to limit its nuclear program iran says its atomic ambitions are entirely peaceful spite western claims that the islamic state is trying to develop nuclear weapons. for and how the oil embargo will impact european markets stay tuned for a tease interview with pulitzer prize winning author and economic researcher daniel you're going to had just over an hour's time. to israel now where a former bosnian serb soldier is appealing a decision to extradite him to his homeland the man currently holds an israeli passport but is what is in bosnia for alleged war crimes experts say the case sets a dangerous precedent as artie's policy or in our 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 every israeli soldier in real danger touch on his husband alexander is a bosnian serb who only got his radio 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 the srebrenica massacre. 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 give each. he he he is telling very very and he can walk and believe

that he wasn't presenting 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 intend to. exterminate the. muslims as a nation and they should give that and then the special proof but even without that evidence the israeli courts have a radio agreed to extradite him speak of it is currently awaiting a decision on his appeal and if he goes that could be the beginning of a slippery slope. with mr smith goal 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 out an order and this is the most dangerous precedent in this request

of 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 sir for their actions policy r t tel aviv the london olympics are just one month away but the city security operations are coming under attack sounds of weapon clad police and soldiers will take to the streets on the name of public protection but skeptics believe the firearms won't actually help those inside their own back park because basic security there isn't up to par or smith reports. 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 proper proportionality of this and 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 soil there lympics is the u.k.'s biggest peacetime 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 the occasion by the way that a half 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 are substandard i was asked

during the training exercises to be a would be terrorist i was given a knife a real gun and a fake i.e.d. the gun was in my bag preserve didn't see it it is a good several times he still didn't find it he got behind one did the handle and it didn't go off he hadn't turned on least 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 the people you know come to visit london. but you twelve to be absolutely confident they're going to be safe and secure if you go security x. ray machine to look at anything. that way we can check that anybody coming in to bring anything within that could do anybody any damage that's not lee's experience of the operation and he's pessimistic about the safety of visitors to the olympic

park huge knife in there you know if one round of ammunition gets through by one person and fifty people go through different piers 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 with a month to go the head of m i five says his organization can't guarantee the security of the games that people are asking is the point of the heavy artillery if the park itself is left wide open. going straight to the world of business where marina is ready was a fresh business of date and european investors were not very optimistic on tuesday been any different today that's right marina well today we're seeing a more of the sentiment of course and since there was so the markets and in the session mix those despite the fact that we had paused of news coming out from germany that consumer confidence is on the increase but it was like

a look at the figures for today will see that it's slightly better with the forty is now adding as well as the german dax but of course everything will become clear was the trading session gets under way in the next couple of hours unless we're also currencies and have a look at what's happening there when it comes to the euro news and i guess the u.s. all of us still more or less on the flat surface when it comes to the ruble it's again i guess of both major currencies now and a. half hour of trading what we can see there are gains exactly the nikkei and the hang seng i get in by exactly the same amount point seven seven and investors there are more. looking towards wall street for the sign of what to do and basically. against the. us home prices climbed for the fourth month in a row and basically of course that was a major boost for investors now moving on to. an hour of the trading session can

see the r.t.s. is gaining half a percent m i six lightly behind there and this is this point falling prices which let's take a look at those because even though we saw some gains earlier on in the day that down lights well it's still trading below eighty dollars for bow and five it has added one fifth of its value since the january know very encouraging news right here and also of course that group is not the only one being affected by the situation in the euro zone also have aluminum prices which have twenty percent since the beginning of the year but we spoke to the c.e.o. of alcoa one of the world's top aluminum producers and he said that he's not that concerned about the current market fluctuations because it doesn't seem to be affecting demand. twenty percent price decline is painful at the same time we are also seeing tremendous growth we've seen ten percent. growth 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 gloom that currently overshadows the whole course very strongly by this questions around how is europe going to be developed is always shadowing the pricing. let's make no mistakes that has very little to do with the fundamentals that exist in our market fundamentals are very strong demand is very strong we're entering a lot of additional industry. and i'm very optimistic that this is also going to play well in the russian market and all the news latest forecasts claim that russia will be the perfect place to find a job in the next few years and that's because there will be many vacancies according to the wealth management division of bank of america which is merrill lynch will be annoying million jobs up for grabs in the next decade now that's because of russia's there are graphic problems there aren't enough people available

to replace the aging workforce in the country and the banks analysts expect local employers to raise salaries by roughly six and a half percent per year and that's to provide their employees from looking for another job and by twenty twenty this could more than double the average salary in the country botts merrill lynch also expects russia to keep raising taxes due to increasing social spending. so i guess very aware and there i can point out. thanks very much indeed for this update and of course looking forward to more next hour and headlines coming your way here on r.t. .

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