he don't come. for a tour of a business or calls cling to them to want to go but as you can hear. from here questions still continue shelling and shooting in the syrian city of homes as the death toll continues to rise brings an exclusive report from the heart of the uprising. meanwhile wiki leaks promised to shed new light on the syrian conflict as the group begins to release millions of e-mails claiming the material is damning not only for damascus but also the u.s. . and washington plans to invest millions to upgrade the notorious kuantan a mole base suggesting the shutdown of the detention facility was promised by barack obama is still a far cry. onscreen

and almost twenty four hours a day seven days a week this is r t with me karen terror well shelling continues in the syrian city of homes as un as a u.n. monitor and emits that the violence in the country has reached unprecedented levels more than one hundred people have been killed in the last three days our correspondent marie if a national heard heavy artillery herself as she toured the war torn neighborhoods of homes. this part of honey may be back on the syrian army control with it patrols never stop soldiers are searching house to house they're looking for terrorists or snipers with that's not what they usually find. some people in their homes became their graves too and this room look human bones but at least one person. who seems to have been burnt to death.

and the next house we find three more charred skulls. activists claim up to eight hundred thousand people have been killed since the uprising began sixteen months ago you honest amazing around ten hours we have no way of telling you these remains or others like them were even counted. my brother used to be home to one hundred thousand people now we're driving through ghost area people have left military almost the only human beings left in this area this is he can see behind me this is a cemetery almost untouched actually while the rest of the city looks completely like the cemetery buildings schools mosques all in ruins and no sign of life while many signs of this is one of the tallest buildings in the area and we can see from this balcony two completely different pictures two completely different realities

look there beautiful pictures peaceful city while over there well we can see war homes the opposition hotbed has always been at the heart of the uprising against president assad. was a bad obama that if they could have been the epicenter of the clashes between the rebels and the army once it's been shelled heavily now you can see it's quiet here but just steps away just misses away. from crimea and this is where the things are happening right now it's going behind these raised strange but from time to time missiles reach this area to this is why would a hurry up. but what about another holmes the district is because he also most completely destroyed everything shops buildings schools even mosques we were told that this district was cleaned from turkey months ago but as you can hear not far from here questions still continue so we were actually told not to go any further i

don't simply dangerous. soldiers come to our location tell us the rebels walk up so we leave. just a fifteen minute drive takes us to use another which of homs the people here aren't taking their bags at least the wrong people here see the. very good and it's very serious that if we leave it coming this is talking to this man at a coffee on the street full of people it's easy to forget the truck to night just a few blocks away. regional r.t. homs syria. meanwhile iraq's foreign minister has confirmed al-qaeda militants are flowing into syria to stage terrorist attacks earlier this year an al qaida leader called on muslims to support the syrian rebels political commentator and historian gerald horne says western powers are playing with fire one supporting the

opposition. what he had read the foreign minister and search another come as a surprise to anybody saying attention even we can behave when secretary or now it's just you weeks ago that al qaeda was involved in syria we all know that during the one nine hundred eighty s. when the united states was involved in trying to disrupt afghanistan that they want to stage collaborated with al qaeda and bin laden himself this ragtag bunch that's called the free syrian army is not going to be able to dislodge one of the most powerful militaries in the region the turkish planes that interfere in syrian airspace just a few days ago came to realize that the silk syrian military has nothing to claim with so i think that diplomacy is the only way i'll let us hope that the north atlantic powers that we lurch from the libyan experience we know that they drop tons of weapons in libya in order to this large regime of mr gadhafi under the

guise of humanitarian intervention wiki leaks is promising to present a different take on the ongoing syrian conflict but whistleblowing group past started publishing the so-called syrian files millions of e-mails that the group warrants will expose the west's hypocrisy and dealing with damascus let's now cross live to london where our correspondent sara firth is following the developments sorry you know i've checked the wiki leaks website and so far i've seen twenty five files released tell us what has been revealed in these files. well this is the biggest release since we had table gate which gave us the u.s. diplomatic cables and a really unique insight into the workings of the u.s. government now the syria files is even bigger than that allegedly it's supposed to be eight times bigger than the u.s. diplomatic table the in terms of documents and a hundred times bigger in terms of data now in the same way that we saw the u.s.

diplomatic cables released its thought a similar things going to be happening with the syria files wiki leaks have partnered up with different media organizations around the world and they go to three of the data and release this in small stages now so far from what's been released already we've had a very interesting insight into the workings because these are the e-mails that were being exchanged between senior political figures in syria ministry figures corporations around the world so it gives really a very unique insight into the behind the scenes workings if you will at a time when of course the country is in for oil in a serious civil conflict so i mean at the first e-mails that were released it showed that an italian company had been providing communications equipment to the syrian police and the syrian army now they that contract is signed back in two thousand and eight when relations with the syrian regime were much stronger with

the west it shows that the technical assistance with being provided as late as february of this year so you know clearly that company more than happy to continue providing that assistance even as the violence you know claim to huge number of lives in the country and so you know i think probably there's going to be a lot of very nervous companies around the world is going to be a lot of nervous members of the syrian government certainly as we once again has this major coup in providing us with you know a very unique glimpse of what is going on now what about julian assange we know he's been holed up in the door in embassy awaiting his silence but answer has i haven't heard any comments from the chief whistleblower. he has he did he released a comment three one of his spokesman sara harrison he's played an increasingly main main role with the wiki leaks team and she said on his behalf that what these files waiting to do is not to embarrass one side or another it was aimed to give us

really an understanding of what was going on and he said that it was only through understanding the conflict that we'd be able to find some sort of resolution poignant words from the man himself who is of course at the moment fighting his own very fierce battle in the ecuadorian embassy here in london still as he seeks to battle against its addition to sweden and again indeed it is thought to the u.s. if he were to be sent to sweden so all of that's been going on he's been fighting a very high profile basle and since a sexual assault allegations remember he's never been charged this is the allegations that he's wanted for questioning in sweden he's sort of we've seen this in the british media declare you can season on julian assange so he's come under a huge amount of criticism but wiki leaks itself has been fighting a very fierce battle they've had their funding. and they're fighting a battle against that that's really had a major impact on the websites and you know it's actually it's put wiki leaks

itself as a web site as an organization in serious difficulties so i mean i think what the syria files have done for wiki leaks is once again you take the focus back here to what wiki leaks is all about and what an important service it provides and so i think really with this latest release of the syria files it's back to wiki leaks doing what it does best all right well hopefully we will be seeing some more light shed on these syrian files thank you sheriff earth live from london. the fact that these syrian files are making headlines despite all the criticism julian assange john wiki leaks have faced prove the group significance not just a letter radix us national security and human rights director at the government accountability project if these leaks were meaningless fluff or not in the public interest in knowing cared no one would report on them and they would see

julian assange djoser crackpot and no one would pay any attention to it the fact that they're being reported on inherently shows their worth despite the fact that credit card companies that chilled doll financial support to wiki leaks and that he is holed up in the embassy this organization is continuing to function which is a testament to the by weekly leaks as an organization especially at this time and i find all of this to be very interesting because it shows number one the leagues is alive and well despite the best efforts of so many countries to shut it down and number two that as much as the mainstream media wants to distance itself from wiki leaks the syria are the front page of every major newspaper in the world right now . don't forget the wiki leaks editor julian assange has been hosting his very own interview program right here on r.t. all eleven additions of which are always available at a song r.t.e.

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thanks for joining r.t. at fourteen minutes past the hour now the pentagon will repeatedly or reportedly rather poor a major psalm into a new infrastructure for its military base at guantanamo bay the u.s. government repeatedly pledged to put an end to the controversial detention facility that's based at the site and used to hold terror suspects arties going at each count has more. forty million dollars will be spent to lay out this underwater fiber optic cable from south florida to cuba where the guantanamo bay prison camp is located the base commander said it only makes sense if we're going to be here for any period of time an infrastructure project like that may well suggest that the u.s. military's preparing for detentions and other operations at the guantanamo base for the long term when president obama was first running for office he pledged to shut

down guantanamo in very strong terms in two thousand and ninety even signed an executive order to close it but not only did not shut it down but the u.s. is obviously renovating guantanamo in this case by improving communications and the argument is you don't make such an investment to pick up and lead one to animal has made a black hole in america's human rights record indefinite detention torture around eight hundred people went through the camp within the last decade of america's war on terror the majority of them had nothing to do with nine eleven that's according to a former chief prosecutor guantanamo now the prison houses one hundred sixty nine detainees the government says eighty nine aren't those threats but president obama and congress have blocked their release as for the rest some of them have a shot at a military hearing but forty six don't have that chance because the government says they can't be tried for one reason or another the u.s. supreme court keeps refusing to take up one tunnel detainees petitions what has

been striking to me was that the u.s. prides itself on the rule of law and human rights but at the same time has denied the legal process is easy to practice for sure and not just the one on the will but in secret prisons around the world human rights organizations that issued reports on all kinds of violations but to the u.s. it's been like water off a duck's back to us lawyer an attorney eric a man tall vaal who's represented some of the detainees at guantanamo believes the american leadership is totally failing to practice what it preaches. it's you're saying one thing and doing the complete opposite on one hand you know we're closing the base but on the other hand we're crafting water the state of the art you know penal institutions in the united states there's a big disconnect between the justice department between homeland security between the president and states and our foreign policy and i think we need to evaluate you know why we're spending millions upon millions of dollars on something that should

not even be there in the first place there are today we speak with british lawyer and university professor philip sands who says legal advisers practically gave the leadership unlimited power to do anything they wanted. but of the lawyers involved very senior love had no real background in the subject of international law or the protection of the right to the individual and were very ideological in their approach basically they saw their function as law is not as be to give independent legal advice but to give the president the tools to do what he want to do that's not the function of a lawyer in any society in any democratic society. greece is farea sat the british prime minister over his remarks the u.k. could restrict greeks from entering the country the move could also prevent all the eurozone citizens coming to britain to escape recession at home great campaign

kylie believes david cameron striking a populist now just to try to keep a hold of his party. cameron's losing his party it seems that the democratic party is going really better so maybe it's like a populism or trying to say something i've used this kind of statements to increase his popularity greeks are less likely to leave their country so nothing like that could be a problem and greeks in every county they moved to they would grant the immigrants went to fairly or anywhere else they just created jobs and work really hard their way there so they wouldn't create a problem he even if that would be the case it's against all the rules of the european union saying something like that while we're trying to get us out of this crisis i don't think it's good it was just pointless for me. here are some of the other stories worth checking out on our website r.t. dot com. the fukushima power plant disaster may have been triggered by

a tsunami but shapin says it was human error that led to the disaster unfolding also we've got the footage of a massive fire that engulfed a military academy in the russian capital you can find all the photos and videos of the blaze online. issues that so much different a huge music history and on the mark with the arab spring the week for me to sit down as the protest movement grows the regime of al bashir appears to have limited options with the control.

twenty minutes past the hour now time to take a look at other news from around the world riot police clashed with protesters in la paz bolivia as they tried to clear encampments outside the presidential palace officers fired tear gas and water cannon to force people out as they were pelted with rocks opposed to a planned construction of a highway through a nature reserve demonstrators walk toward two months from their villages to the capital to reject the planned. nato supply trucks are in pakistan crossing the border into afghanistan it's the first convoy to do so since the route was reopened

earlier this week islamabad shut down the roadway last november following a u.s. airstrike that killed twenty four pakistani troops thousands protested the routes revival after u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton apologized for the incident a few days ago deadly american drone strikes and pakistan's alleged taliban support continue to strain relations between the two sides. is the idea of a multicultural society coming back to bite its advocates later this hour watch sharing the motherland on our team. was the idea of multicultural. sharing the motherland.

and we should once seen as the picture of poverty is now a hotspot for small business but the growing middle class people are coming from all over the world to find the brazilian dream artes you go to this going all the explains. violence and poverty just some of the images that come to mind when thinking about brazil but in reality these stereotypes are much more dated than you might expect and friendship in lives in rio only five years ago he and his partner were selling homemade bread on a bicycle and now with two popular cafes in rio and thirty six employees these two former school teachers but old are we to success to be boring about teaching. and then we try to do something else towards making this a french. bread for me it's very difficult to get stories like this are becoming

common in brazil especially in rio and san paulo in the last decade small private businesses have mushroomed all around since two thousand and three brazil's middle class grew by over thirty five million people starting from the also earn over eleven hundred dollars per month in rio the poor districts or favelas are now called community since every year more of their residents become middle class people are earning borrowing and are definitely spending more cash things are certainly on the up but of course there's still a long way to go when it comes to things like closing the gap between rich and poor and bureaucracy if you are entering into a market in brazil your chances of success are huge go for it be prepared to fight red tape in every stage of setting up and running your business. there is an expression that it's called the brazilian costs but maybe it's not as bad as it sounds the bureaucracy yet to be we say shit man but that the ending to

it for brazil's economy is now the sixth largest in the world bypassing the u.k. and still growing more people are coming here from braun to make their living not only from other side. american countries but from europe also even now from north america to trade their chances of fulfilling was increasingly the brazilian dream. or de rio de janeiro. counter business with danielle and danielle what's this i hear about the i phone now being the world's most popular smartphone something said to have a stunning ten million preorders for its new galaxy s three which is lighter and faster than the i phone it's also a victory for google whose droid operating system the three works on even benefits from apple sales chips power the i phone and i pad markets because the euro is trading flat against the greenback this hour on the rubles weaker against the

dollar but stronger against european currency they were mosco session will kick off in thirty five minutes time on thursday the russian markets finished on a negative note following much of europe e.u. sanctions on iran going into effect this month and monetary easing from central banks crude prices are falling is a bearish impact on the supply side with saudi arabia reportedly raising production asian stocks there falling for a second day as interest rate cuts in europe failed to reassure investors exporters are taking the largest hit can and which gets a third of its sales in europe two percent in the red nose do investors believe that china is easing economic monetary policy could help shore up its economy and china's economy may not grow ten percent this year it's quite a premier has warned and made the comments off the beijing cut interest rates for the second time in two months trying to calm the group about eight percent in the first quarter of the slowest pace in three years lower rates are hoped to boost

domestic demand and risk the slowing economy and europe today use an interview on the website all right thank you very much for that update daniel. next hour i'll be back to recap you on our top stories don't go away.

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