syria kills. the president assad declares on national t.v. the country is in a state of war. a u.s. senate committee passes a bill banning russian officials it believes to be implicated in human rights violations. by the death of a lawyer while the russian custody three years ago. also london two thousand and twelve is starting to look like a security event. not a sporting event the games organizers are under fire for flaunting battleships. and still easily open to it.

it is good to have you with us here on r.t. today rule reese who shared live in moscow one of syria's a pro-government news stations has come under attack leaving several employees dead it's off the president bashar assad addressed his cabinet on national t.v. saying the country was in a state of war. what you can see behind me is what's left from the main building of the syrian state run television syrian news body years after what government says was a terror attack according to the syrian news agency sana early in the morning about four a group of terrorists broke through the main gate of the studio's headquarters two security people hostage who explosive devices inside the building and destroyed

killing at least seven people talking to those on the ground we've been getting a little bit different information about exactly how many people have been killed but it still remains unclear who these people were a son is reporting that three of them were workers of the television while four others were security newly appointed syrian minister of information has also visited the scene and he has said that this what happened is an attempt by terrorists to stop the syrian media to deliver truth to the world this is what he has said this is indeed a very symbolic attack because we are has been known for very pro-government old policy the stories they've been covering in the way they've been doing this all shows this channel as a regime asked mouthpiece and of course the attack on this channel could be considered as the attack on the regime it's also want to mention that this incident has happened just a after president bashar assad has said that syria is now in

a real state of war we've indeed been we can see in dramatic escalation of the conflict here on the ground in the last weeks we've been hearing a lot of explosions inside damascus and shootings and we've been hearing reports about clashes just in the city center this area where we are now where the studio situated is twenty five kilometers from the city center and although it's been known as anti governmental area it's also been known as quite safe and well protected area where many military people have been and the fact is that. all these happened here in such a neighborhood just proves how dramatic things really are on the ground. is more of a national reporting meantime an international conference of countries which has some influence on events in syria as you take place on saturday in geneva it aims to try and find a solution to the ongoing crisis author and historian gerald horne believes peace can be achieved if diplomacy and not military action is put to work. keep in mind

that the north atlantic nations and where there are allies particularly saudi arabia or relatively isolated on this matter of think the international community is norbu must be at adventure recognizing that these crocodile tears that are being shared about civilian deaths in syria are basically a cover scene change a lot of that be 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 international peace and security if they continue to be excluded from such important gather. now a biased approach to the events in syria gets in the way of not just politics but also journalism as we report shortly here on out say as an internal b.b.c.

report costs down on the channels accuracy over its coverage of the arab spring revolutions we speculate whether the broadcaster is slipping off the pace. homegrown terrorists could be flocking to al qaeda training ground blooming thanks to the arab spring the u.k.'s top spy warns of a new threat. a u.s. senate committee has approved a bill blacklisting russian officials it deems to be implicated in human rights abuses the senate has yet to vote on the so-called magnitsky bill named off the lawyer sort of backing its 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 to carry out tax evasion but more details on this is ati's a guy in a church camp. senate foreign relations committee has passed the 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 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 deems 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 a rack of galveston 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 commandment 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 his stablish ing 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. it is going to. european governments are becoming increasingly worried about

a growing number of home trained terrorists who can travel freely across the e.u. but a surge of radical islam in some countries has also sparked a counter rise in far right extremists sarah ferguson. in the war on terror in me fine it's raging in europe at the moment we're seeing an ongoing battle of ideologies people approaching the boundaries of freedom of speech with the islamic rhetoric but at the same time extremists 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 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 can born here but if you have not been integrated and those will be millions coupled with the religious. volved relief. which

shows the internet actually your brother's abroad being mutilated blown up or killed by exactly the people where you live why i'm going terrorists to me mary actually a small part of the global threats 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. have sympathy with her own beloved and this is such a lead to radicalism and. lead to terrorism it is 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 to see that you have communism which is more or less defeated and the third one is. the danger posed by radical anti immigrant thinking so tragically demonstrated in the rethink attacked by and is daring brave it in no way with increasingly anti is learning rhetoric coming not just from controversial speakers the from european politicians questions are now being asked about just how responsible these fees 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 threat so. the. top spy agency believes new terror training camps in arab spring countries could pose a major threat the head of m i five said the uprisings which nato and its allies have supported us. allowed al qaeda to move in up to two hundred extremists from

the u.k. are thought to have joined heavily armed groups abroad let's not talk to retired lieutenant colonel tony shaffer from the center for advanced defense studies now joining us here on ati good to see you today thank you for coming on the program you know when when the west started supporting it what it called a move towards democracy in the arab world it wasn't expecting to end up with islamist radicalization and terror training grounds was it no i think people and anticipated wrongly that somehow democracy would just kind of spring force when given a chance to do that i think people misunderstood badly the idea that you can simply give people democracy and let them take it from there on i think unless you have a real desire for a democratic process for all voices are heard the default position is really more totalitarian government and one that fails it is an opportunity when society falls apart like it didn't libya like it's doing in syria and frankly in egypt you have

an opportunity for these groups who are probably the best equipped best organized to come in and take advantage of the chaos so i think the people of many people in my government misinterpreted completely the outcome of creating chaos where there was no clear path to a safe a stable society that we've also been hearing reports how a homegrown militants say that they've become radicalized because of nine toes foreign wars so it's a how how has the the so-called war against terror how is it turned out has it simply bred more terror there certainly some of the say that well i think the last three years have been similar and creating that next generation of terrorists and there's three reasons first as much as folks here hated war a lockie it was a u.s. citizen and the idea he was assassinated without due cause and by the way there's nothing in our legal system here united states which indicted him he was not under indictment so he was essentially assassinated in addition to that there's been a record of an outlook i'm form. member of our military. there's

a record of us killing civilians in the process of going after these bad guys so what we're doing and i and others on the on the conservative side of said we have to be very careful of the fact that we're creating the next generation of terrorists so i think in many ways by the fact you kill civilians most of them become enraged by what you've done then they gravitate to these these terrorist organizations were alluding to here and i think that's why we're seeing this we recruit vision of radicalism across the board at this point when we talk about a revision of our radicalism across the border this point also that of breeding a generation all of new terrorist let's talk about right what one big event a month away now of britain's top spy says the olympic games could be a target for attack e.g. think a major assault could be planned by by homegrown terrorists you know that's an excellent question and i got to be honest with you i just don't know i don't know if anybody knows this point we are in many ways going back to the one nine hundred seventy s. when it comes to these smaller groups. i worked i was in high school in lisbon portugal during the seventy's and i watched all the things going on in europe and

then in the eighty's we saw a lot of radicalism as well i actually was a anti-terrorism officer working in germany during the eighty's looking at all the smaller groups we've actually essentially kind of cut the head off the hydra we kind of defeated a lot of the leadership but now you create these smaller groups which are much harder to track so i think in many ways we are actually adding to that this chaos and frankly we just don't know at this point what will become of these groups when it comes to the olympics now as a training ground have been proven to be in somalia yemen afghanistan and pakistan did you think do you think as a situation in afghanistan uproot improved rather appearing ten years of nato's war that let me answer that question i was actually question directly i was actually on capitol hill yesterday meeting with senior members of congress our congress on this and frankly no we're talking about a situation which has been worse i wrote a book operation dark heart on the tipping point which happened in two thousand and three and we went on one of the losing reason we want to losing and why we are continuing to lose ground is because. trying to insinuate ourselves in situation by

us becoming the issue the tribes both sides now focus on us as the target is the foreigner same thing the russians went through during their occupation we really involved ourselves for the wrong reasons we somehow believe we could create a central democracy where one is never existed therefore the gains which are substantial will that we've made regarding stabilizing the urban areas is not sustainable and i think the moment we step away things are going to revert to the state they were back in the late one nine hundred like nine hundred eighty s. early one nine hundred ninety s. so he wish we had more time for this discussion of retired lieutenant colonel tony shaffer from the center for advanced defense studies many thanks for coming on thank you for having me thank you. bear in mind you can always go to our website r.t. dot com to 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. i think it would or in embassies in britain

and the us to get ten thousand messages of support for julian assange made for asylum in the latin american country this while he anxiously awaits the decision in the meantime to catch the whistle blower electric an exclusive talk show on our website. now the b.b.c. has acknowledged its coverage of the uprisings in the middle east could have been broader a special internal inquiry concluded that though generally impartial it lacked contact accuse 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 the review also stated that the channel failed to provide international reaction to the events all focused on smaller countries like saudi arabia right t.j. walker from a media training organisation says the b.b.c. is losing its status as a leading broadcaster. but there is

a bias 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 that is reality when it comes to major networks the bigger problem for the b.b.c. is there are 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. i will get to the r.t.o. shortly here but for now at the london olympics are exactly one month away but the city's security operations are already under attack by well fighter jets and drones

are guarding the skies and big brother watching every move skeptics believe that won't help those inside the olympic park because basic security there isn't 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 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 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 olympics 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 by the case and by the 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 yeah it's real preserve didn't see it it is a good several times he still didn't find it he got behind one. it didn't go he hadn't turned on police 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 to come to visit london in twenty twelve to be absolutely confident that they're going to be safe and secure and you'll go through security and x. ray machine to look at anything you bring him with you and that way we can check that anybody coming into the park isn't bringing anything with them 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 i took a huge knife in there you know if one round of ammunition gets through by one person and fifty people go through different 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 his organization can't guarantee the

security of the games what then people are asking is the point of the heavy artillery if the park itself is left wide open laura smith london. pakistan and wildfires in america in just a moment on the world starts with iraq. killed a woman injured nineteen the first blast went off outside the house of a shiite cleric in a back dad suburb a second explosion just minutes later came as neighbors gathered at the scene june has been a violent month in 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 the reopening the 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 head 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 was abused in jail on sunday extradited. back to libya human rights groups say he faces a very real risk of being tortured and president was against the extradition worried that libya's new regime offered no guarantees of a fair hearing. tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes as wildfires raced through the american city of colorado springs they've been sparked by nearly a week of extreme temperatures and low humidity. another wildfire has destroyed over two hundred fifty houses and killed at least one part of utah wyoming and montana are also under a red flag. now russia has always considered dissolves as one of the world's top military manufacturers and this week it's been doing its bit to reaffirm that

image state of the art tanks armored vehicles and helicopters have been showcased are proving just what they're capable of in the hope of attracting potential buyers . watch the parade of hardware. russia is currently showing off its latest developments in military hardware at the engineering technologies for just outside of moscow now it's a multi-billion dollar industry in russia is one of the key players on the world stage now the representatives of many countries from all around the world here just outside of moscow for this forum hoping to sign a new contract a new deals with russian arms manufacturers now they can now they can see just about everything that russia has to offer here at the corporate helicopters and other aircraft small arms trucks and armored vehicles like those that are going through their paces through the audience just behind me right now but this is

a little bit of fun for those who have come out to see what's going on but the big business will continue over the coming days until four ends on sunday say billions of dollars ten show business is on the table to be discussed here or not is pretty one of their certainly in his element or in a such a government as business news now enjoys a matriarchy fitness test good to see you again standard and poor's a nice surprise in store for russia yes that's absolutely true our ratings around the world notably in europe are being slashed by the day russia's credit rating has been kept stable at the level of triple b. and the outlook is still positive now standard and poor's analysts also believe that low debt levels in the country are balancing the risks of the world's top energy exporter from volatility on the commodity markets and this indeed has been very much supporting the russian market in investors' minds first take a look at what's going on in the united states right now we've got a lot of positive news coming out from the from the housing market over there with

contracts for homes at a two year high that combined with yesterday's report that housing prices have been going up in the month of june for the. first time in several months is creating basically the basis for optimism that the economy is in fact recovering and therefore we singled out jones and nasdaq up point eight percent short there. over in on the commodities market we're seeing a boost coming also from that housing report with thought well now both blends in the positive territory light sweet gaining more than a dollar you see they're very confident growth and brant up eighty cents so they're basically recovering from recent two year lows and this is in fact very much supporting the russian market will talk about it in a second in europe investors are also looking ahead into tomorrow's european union summit where might get some hands on the coordinated efforts again solving the

crisis which of them pretty slow in the previous meetings. to see their four up one percent on the back of the housing data dax also gave rise to. the currencies market the euro continues to weaken against the dollar that it's at least boring costs are rising after a recent bomb dog two more coming up tomorrow and the russian ruble is losing slightly against five currencies on the russian market we're seeing a second day of gains with the r.t.s. my six again around one and a half percent that's supported by optimism coming from the u.s. housing market and from ohio oil prices will secular world so moving in my six most interesting stories there norilsk nickel the giant metals miner is up four point one point eight percent as one of his main shareholders bloodier but has been speaking about the recent buyback saying that it's been sitting there carried out

in order to support the company's shares two percent of the company's shares were for back on the market and therefore we could see a continued gain of one point eight percent after visors a bit weaker the market's up half a percent as the russian carmaker. the maker of the larger brand is going to supply those cars to ferrule ecuador and believe the recent deal with a local company and loop oil is up one point four percent back of the oil price. all right we've got the news here that suggests that latest forecasts claim russia could be the perfect place to find a job in the coming years as its population is aging and therefore there will be more vacancies in fact bank of america merrill lynch suggests that nine million vacancies will be available in a decade now that's because of russia's demographic problem starts enough people available to replace the aging workforce in the country the banks analysts expect

local employers to raise salaries by roughly six and a half percent a year to prevent the employees from looking for another job this in fact will also increase rush's g.d.p. per capita as the population declines now in by twenty twenty this could more than double the average salary in the country also merrill lynch expects russia to keep raising taxes due to increasing social spending. well that's up from from this edition of the business news article i'll be back in around an hour with plenty more super so you then thanks very much. i just a moment of the headlines here on r.t. then we'll be having a close up interview with a pulitzer prize winning author and what the future holds for iran all amid a new wave of looming sanctions this is art.

you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. in the news it sigrid lumber taurine to mccurry was able to build a new its most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't.