an attack on a program news channel in syria kills seven after president assad declares on national t.v. the country is in a state of war. the us senate committee passes a bill banning the russian officials implicated in human rights violations the role was sparked by the death of a lawyer while in russian custody three years ago. also. london two thousand and twelve is actually starting to look more like a security event. not a sporting event the games organizers are under fire for flaunting battleships and rockets while it seems the olympic park is still leisurely open to attack.

worldwide news around the clock this is r t with me rory sushi live in moscow one of syria's pro-government news stations has come under attack leaving up to seven employees dead that's after president bashar assad addressed his cabinet on national t.v. saying the country was in a state of war the gunmen raided the headquarters of the privately owned t.v. channel twenty kilometers outside damascus in the early morning syria's information minister says the terrorists blew up buildings and kidnapped several people rebel forces though deny they've targeted any media outlets and the attack comes off the president called on his newly sworn in government to do everything they can to win the ongoing war in the country with the latest in damascus as artie's area

financial. this is the strongest statement from president bashar al assad since the uprising began sixteen months ago and i have to say the things that are indeed dramatic here on the ground the conflict is definitely escalated fault more than 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 a 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 is the worst day of clashes between the rebels and governmental forces say this is the uprising began last march the government. later up to after what happened on tuesday that a number of calories tappin killed many of them have been captured including foreign nationals but we also hearing about

a dramatic arrival just from the military side 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 force 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 has his pushing pull the conference take place this week i think 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 the kind of hammer out and try 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 other 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 generators of further vision of the situation and growing growing while and so if it's time to get serious and to make sure that we all 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 their road and contact group on series called friends of syria but the problem with these groups is that they've they've only been dealing always with the rebels that 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 what is more if a national reporting right well i mean time a un human rights council investigation has found that the killing of some one

hundred civilians in the syrian village of houla in may could be blamed on forces loyal to the regime however it also said it couldn't rule out the possibility rebels or even foreign mercenaries were involved the syrian delegation at the session in geneva called some of the conclusions extremely politicized and even a walked out of the meeting author and historian gerald horne believes mass civilian slaughter still can justify outside intervention and diplomacy remains the only solution. keep in mind that the north atlantic nations and where there are allies particularly saudi arabia or relatively isolated on this matter of the international community is more of the must be adventure recognizing that these crocodile tears that are being shared about civilian deaths in syria are basically a cover zene shames me it needs national 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 a real party in interest and it would be contrary to international peace and security if they continue to be excluded of course. now a biased approach to the events in syria gets in the way of not just politics but also journalism as a reporter shortly here on r.t. this turn of b.b.c. reporter cost doubt on the channels accuracy over its coverage of the arab spring revolutions but we speculated whether the broadcaster is slipping off the pace. at home grown terrorists could be flocking to al qaeda training grounds blooming thanks to the arab spring of the u.k.'s top spy warning of a new threat. a u.s. senate committee has approved a bill blacklisting russian officials that it deems to be implicated in human

rights abuses the senate has yet to vote on the so-called that magnitsky bill named after a lawyer sort of gave back netsky who died in a russian prison three years ago he was detained in two thousand and eight on charges of helping a british investment fund carry out tax evasion and with these details now over two artes guy nature can. senate foreign relations committee has passed this so-called magnitsky a 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 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 the deaths in prison a tragedy it's being investigated by russian authorities deems this kind of legislation as interference in their internal affairs a kind of interfere is that will most likely backfire moscow 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 a rack of ghana's than 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 and bennett amendment 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 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. he's got an education reporting well meantime political consultant daniel wagon of believes that the american politicians are banking on cold war fare ahead of the elections and the fallout though could be painful with the election season heating up as it is to a fever pitch now there can't be too much doubt about why this is happening at this time if you look for example mr romney's approach to russia calling russia the u.s. number one foreign geopolitical foe with everything else that is going on in the world it seems really surprising to me that he would choose to do this 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 that 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 and that was a political consultant daniel wagner with his assessment of the timing and repercussions of the back netsky people fight. ten posts here in moscow

a european governments are becoming increasingly worried at the growing number of home training terrorists who can travel freely across the e.u. but a surge of radical islam in some countries has also sparked account to a rise in far right extremists this story to ati's tariff. in the moron me fine it's 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 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. it is the young unemployed who are told and shown repeatedly you're not really one of us it doesn't even matter if you can born here but if you have not been integrated and those will be millions coupled with

the religious. valve relief valve. which shows you. actually your brother's abroad being mutilated blown up or killed by exactly the people where you live why i'm going to terrorism you mary actually a small part of the global threat they have a disproportionate impact is the possible carrying citizens who understand the countries they live in have good connections they're easy access to information investigative journalist the nearby atty has been closely following the rise of fundamentalist websites so many not only muslim but. there are converted to islam have sympathy with the dollar and beloved and this is then yet such a lead to radicalism and. lead to terrorism it is not just radical muslims his these 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 to see that you have communism which is more or less defeated and the third one is islam. the danger posed by radical anti immigrant thinking is so tragically demonstrated in the a rethink attacked by and is daring brave ink in no way with increasingly anti islamic rhetoric coming not just from controversial speakers the from european politicians but isn't now being asked about just how responsible he's really are and in the war of ideologies in europe right now it's become hard to know just who it is that poses the greatest terror threats so. that the u.k.'s top spy chief believes that a new terror training camps in the arab spring countries could pose a major threat the head of m i five said the uprising switch nato and its. allies

have supported allowed al qaeda to move in up to two hundred extremists from the u.k. are thought to have joined a heavily armed groups abroad and middle east peace activist dr franklin lamb believes nato's bombing of libya ultimately paved the way. when you've got an operation like nato slaughtering civilians in pakistan afghanistan iraq of course it's going to activate 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 it was a rush to enter and to topple the regime i think that was a classic mistake i spent four months there got to know a number of the different factions and it was clear that al-qaeda was there some cases they were training the same militia of the british were training and the

americans or the french were training and now they're joining they're increasing their ranks two months three months ago there is a congressional hearing a cia analyst told the congress because there were three hundred marks of an al qaeda in syria now they are surveyed to thirty one hundred so because nato got this thing going in libya there was this opportunity and there was no will respond to an opportunity and that's what we're seeing now. and it's good to have you with us here in our to you today now do bear in mind if you go to our web site r.t. dot com you can always get more of the stories we're covering for example on line at the moment getting obesity off the menu a federal program in the u.s. pushes overweight americans to seek counseling to combat what the state considers an epidemic of expanding waistlines. by the ecuadorian embassy as in britain and the u.s. and get ten thousand messages of support for julian

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video on demand. and. now in the palm of your. machine on the dot com. this is a live from moscow in just a moment the world update but for now the b.b.c. has acknowledged that its coverage of the uprisings in the middle east could have been brought up a special internal inquiry concluded that generally impartial it lacked context and accused the b.b.c. of being slow to highlight human rights abuses by rebel factions in the libyan war and underestimating the violent nature of the syrian uprising as it began or if you also stated that the channel failed to provide international reaction to the events all focus on smaller countries like saudi arabia and bahrain t.j. walker from a media training organisation says the b.b.c. is losing its status as a leading broadcaster. there is

a body is always in favor of the bigger story the true revolution is always going to be more exciting it's going to be a bigger story and that's what reporters want to be a part of doesn't mean it was good journalistic decision but that is a that is reality when it comes to major networks the bigger problem for the b.b.c. is they're just. so much competition it's easy to be the gold standard when you really have no competition and that was the case for so many decades around the world these days you have more and more networks you have more and more bloggers citizen journalist websites and there's a lot of good stuff out there and every level of professional level at the citizen journalism level so it's harder for one organization to be the dominant voice. libya and pakistan in the arts he won't update there will start with iraq it's where twin bombings have killed eight people and injured nineteen the first blast went off outside the house of a shiite cleric in a baghdad suburb

a second explosion came minutes later as neighbors gathered at the scene cheering has been a violent month of iraq with over one hundred forty people mostly shia pilgrims dying in insurgent attacks. the u.s. commander in afghanistan is meeting with pakistan's top general today they'll focus on reopening key military supply lines which were closed to nato convoys in november after an airstrike by the military alliance killed twenty four pakistani soldiers and no progress has been made on the issue since then just ahead of the meeting though another u.s. drone attack killed four suspected militants in the country. libyan officials have denied claims that the last prime minister to serve under more market duffy was abused in jail on sunday extradited back. back to libya human rights groups say moody faces a very real risk of being tortured and soon as u.s.

president was against the extradition worried that libya's new regime offered no guarantee use of a hearing. well the london olympics are exactly one month away but the city's security operations are already under attack fighter jets and drones are guarding the skies and big brother watching your every move skeptics believe that won't help those inside the olympic park because basic security there is into up to par. with investigates. london two thousand and twelve is almost upon us and with just one month to go it's not just the athletes who are going 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 them untold numbers of firearms or you've got to question the 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 the m.k. is the u.k.'s biggest at that 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 the occasion by thirty eight at home thousand soldiers but insiders are saying basic security here at the olympic park is seriously lacking an investigative journalist lead 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 guns ammunition 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. it 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 resident about safety and security is absolutely the top priority for us and we want people to come to visit london in twenty twelve to be absolutely confident we're going to be safe and secure if you go security and x. ray machine all of that anything pretty we can use that way we can check that anybody coming to bring anything with them or to do anybody any damage that's not please experience of the operation and he's pessimistic about the safety of visitors to the olympic park i took a huge knife in there you know there's one right if i mean it gets sued by 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 with a month to go the head of m i five says he. the organization can't guarantee the security of the games what people are asking is the point if the heavy artillery if the park itself is left why is a plane. trying to say hello to dimitri over the r.t. business tesco good to see you and i must say our so i certainly enjoyed your work last week at the international economic forum thank you very much a story it's good stuff and they are for another look at the markets what's on investors' minds today well they're all looking ahead into tomorrow's summit basically so we are saying basically european markets right now when their chance to break a four day losing streak in the point seven percent of the half a percent this with banks and drug makers leading the gates italy's borrowing costs

did see. as a sold nine billion euros worth of six month treasury bills that notion today comes a day before the sale of five and ten year government bond so we'll be monitoring that of course in session. over the currency market the euro is pretty stable against the dollar just the one point two five mark to the greenback while the russian ruble is losing slightly against the basket of the euro and the door on the russian markets to a sing a second day of gains with the r.t.s. up almost one percent of my sex a bit more than that on the basis of this weakening rubles take a look at what's actually moving the. actually we don't have time for what we'll do . a look at what's moving on the commodities markets which is of course crucial for the for the russian markets and that's light sweet now gaining a bit well brant is the declining to pretty much stable as it was but the markets

of the oil market in general has been a very much hit with the euro zone worries and it hasn't been the only one if we take a look at the other commodities we'll see that many has lost or. around twenty percent of its value over the past year and alcoa has lost forty four percent of its share price over the past twelve months actually the minimum was seen on june the fourth but we talked to the company's head klaus kleinfeld and he says that he remains optimistic. twenty percent price decline is painful at the same time we are also seeing tremendous growth as we've seen ten percent world market demand growth last year we project seven percent world market goes this year we've seen that physical is very very strong you want to buy some of aluminum you would have to buy a physical delivery premium physical delivered premiums are at

a record high historic high you have to put these things together or the whole room that currently overshadows the whole world costs very strongly by this questions around how is your are going to be valid is always shadowing the pricing. let's make no mistakes that has very little to do with what the fundamentals that exist in our market fundamentals are very strong demand is very strong we're entering a lot of additional industry less are great statistics and i'm very optimistic that this is also want to play well in the russian market right latest forecasts claim that russia will be pretty much a perfect place to find a job over the next few years as there will be many vacancies the wealth management assessment division of bank of america merrill lynch says that over the next decade there will be at least nine million jobs up for grabs now the that's because of russia's demographic problems aging population aren't enough people available to

replace the aging workforce in the country banks analysts expect local employers to raise salaries by roughly six and a half percent a year that's not even taking inflation into account and that's to prevent the employees from looking for another job and by twenty twenty that could more than double the average salary in the country however merrill lynch also expects russia to keep raising taxes due to increasing social spending. and stand for the agency has a nice surprise in store for russia this time around is raise the country's short term foreign currency raid. aid to the agency says the country's outlook is stable it says and i quote here vulnerability of the budget and the economy to fluctuations in key export prices are offset by low government debt levels and the country's slight net external asset. so basically that's very very nicely time to given that we're seeing sovereign debt problems over in europe

russia indeed has very little levels of borrowing are to mature as a pleasure good timing indeed cheers. just a moment of the headlines here on r t then we're back talking to a pulitzer prize winning author on what the future holds for iran as a new wave of sanctions are looming on the very near horizon. from.

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