gratian through the day. we were told that this district was clean from months ago reports as you can hear. from here to continue shelling and shooting in the syrian city of the death toll continues to rise our team 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 emails claiming the material is damning not only for damascus but also for western. and washington plans to invest millions to upgrade the notorious one tarmoh base the move suggesting the shutdown of the detention facility was promised by barack obama is still a far cry. from the political role to have made germany responsible for

spain's mogul but it's one hundred seventy two to call him is going to open letter to the childes looking for the business of winning. thank you for joining our team this friday with me karen tara while shelling continues in the syrian city of homes as u.n. and you and i monitor at mit's the violence in the country has reached precedented levels more than a 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. but. this part of hundreds to maybe back on the syrian army control but their patrols never stop soldiers are searching house to house they're looking for terrorists or snipers but that's not what they usually

find. some people in their homes became their grades too and this room look human bones or at least one person. who seems to have been burnt to death. in 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 to me it's a wrong time found. we have no way of telling if 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 area people have left military almost the only human beings left in this area this is he can see behind me the city 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 badge of baba amr that is to have been the epicenter of the clashes between the rebels and the army once it's been shelled heavily now so you can see it's quiet here but just steps away just meters away another big. from crimea and this is where the things are happening right now it's standing behind these raised strange rice quite safe but from time to time missiles reach this area to this is why would a hurry up. but with the bar in other homes the district as you can see also most completely destroyed everything shops building 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 as it 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 you see the. very good and it's very serious 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 tonight 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 and al-qaeda leader called on muslims to support the syrian rebels political commentator and historian gerald horne says western powers are playing with fire when supporting the opposition. we all know that during we nine hundred eighty s. when united states was involved in trying to disrupt afghanistan that there are states collaborated with al qaeda and bin laden himself and the iraqis have their very bitter experience with al qaeda we know that before the u.s. invasion about two years ago there were about two million christians in iraq to service that invasion and because of the car bombings and other kinds of depredations committed by al qaeda we now have a few hundred thousand christians in iraq many of those refugees have moved to syria where they're now experiencing the same thing that they experienced in iraq 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 out let us hope that the north atlantic powers that we learned from the libyan experience we know that they dropped tons of weapons in libya in order to dislodge the regime of mr gadhafi under the guise of humanitarian intervention by killing excess promising to present a different take on the ongoing syrian conflict they were supplying great past started publishing they sell called syria files millions of emails that it warrants all expose the west's hypocrisy in dealing with damascus earlier i spoke to our correspondent sara firth who's following the developments from london. 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 it's supposed to be eight times bigger than the u.s. diplomatic cable leak 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 three the data and released 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 the first e-mails that were released we showed that tally in company had been providing communications to the syrian police and the syrian army know 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 still being provided as late as february of this year say you know clearly that company more than happy to continue providing that assistance even if the violence really came to huge number of lies in the country and so you know i think probably there's going to be a lot of very nervous companies around the world and they'd 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 know he's been holed up in the door an embassy awaiting his solemn but answer has i haven't heard any comments from the chief whistleblower he did he released a comment three one of his spokesman sara harris and she said on his behalf that what. files waiting to do is not to embarrass one side or another it was

a to give us really an understanding of what was going on and use that that it was a need to understand the culture that we'd be able to find some sort of rest of the . poignant words from the man himself is of course at the moment is a very. in the ecuadorian embassy here in. the back they get that it's this interest and again indeed the thoughts of the u.s. if the what's the sense of. the fact that the syrian files are making headlines despite all the criticism julian assange and wiki leaks have faced prove the group significance at least just one radek think so she's the national security and human rights director at the government accountability project if these leaks were meaning was flawed 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 he is holed up in the embassy this organization is continuing to function which is a testament to the by weekly leaks and in the organization especially at this time and i find all of this very interesting because it shows number one the leaks 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 own interview program right here on our t.v. all twelve editions of which are always available at a song. called. there hasn't been a thing yet on t.v.

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here with r.t. it's thirteen minutes past the hour and the pentagon will reportedly pour a major sama 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 are she's going to 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 is 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 nine he 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 leave guantanamo 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 legal process to these detainees practice for sure and not just the one possible but in secret prisons around the world human rights organizations that we should

report on all kinds of violations but to the u.s. it's been like water off a duck's back he was lawyer and attorney eric 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 one or 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 later on today we speak with british lawyer and university professor philip sands who says legal advisers practically gave the leadership on limited power to do anything they wanted. but number of the lawyers

involved at very senior level 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 a lawyer not as b. 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 furious at the british prime minister over his remarks in the u.k. could restrict the greeks from entering the country the move could also prevent other european citizens coming to britain to escape recession at home greek m.p. ever lay believes david cameron striking a populous no just to try to keep a hold of his party. cameron's losing his party it seems that the democratic party's getting really better so maybe it's like

a populism or trying to say something i use these kinds of statements think crees he's popularity are less likely to leave the country so nothing like that's going to be a problem and greeks in every county they move to they would grant them against want of stereo or anywhere else they just created jobs and work really hard their way there so they wouldn't create a problem even if that to 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 these crises i don't think it's good it was just pointless for me and if you had all mine 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 japan says it was human error that led to the disaster unfolding also we've got the footage of a massive fire that raged in the russian capital you can find all of the photos and

videos of the blaze online. shoes that show a much different each musician on the mark with the arab spring and we can reduce it down as the protest meet the goals of the regime of al bashir appears to have limited options which we can try. and storage and here. we are going global and now. we want to. know you. choose your. it's your stuff. to. make your statement. if you like it's

true. all right it's nineteen minutes past the hour time now 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 planned construction of a highway through a nature reserve demonstrators walked for two months from their villages to the capital to reject the plant. they will supply trucks are in pakistan crossing the border into afghanistan that's the first convoy to do so since the route was reopened earlier this week islamic bad shut down the roadway last november following a u.s. airstrike that killed twenty four pakistani troops thousands protested the routs

revival after u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton apologized for the incident just a few days ago deadly american drone strikes and pakistan's a legit taliban support continue to strain relations between the two sides. is the idea of a multicultural society coming back to bite its advocates later on today watch the sharing the motherland. how does the idea of multicultural. sharing the motherland. in nation once seen as the picture of poverty as now a hot spot for small business with a growing middle class people are coming from all over the world to find the

brazilian dream you go to this going off 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 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 worrying about teaching. and then we try to do something else he told me as a frenchman read 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 is 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 cost but maybe it's not as bad as it sounds the bureaucracy yet to be we know station man but that the ending to the court resumes 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 going trees 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. we do have a bit of breaking news this hour the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton says every country must make it clear russia and china will pay a price she's been speaking at a friends of syria meeting in paris and she's also said that russia is sending helicopters to syria which are participating in the killing of protesters it's a claim that russia has strenuously denied. time now for a business with danielle and you do have reports of britain's bank supervisor worried barclay is about its culture months ago yes it appears disgraced boss bob diamond ignored warnings from andrew bailey of the financial services authority back in february at a board meeting that time says he spoke of the lender pushing the envelope too far

testifying to parliament of the rate rigging fiasco was exposed mr diamond admitted cultural issues at the bank but blamed low ranking managers of the persian brands traditionally strong markets from spain and italy are in profound crisis says europe's number two comic of hearsay after analysis in the first half of asia's closing down after china warned it may not grow ten percent this year is more used to twenty percent growth crude a dollar down on reports because raising production to make up for iran sanctions moscow's swung into the red after a bright start to euro contagion losses on thursday as well the euro's also slipping to the dollar on the news from the eurozone. three year lows to major currencies pennsylvania says e.u. bailout call be ruled out after fitch wants to renia has one of the weakest banking markets in central and eastern europe but the country's finance minister i did

a bailout will only be needed if the lenders problems get bigger. and calls quote wrong to have exposed her country to those risks one hundred seventy two economists have written in an open letter to the chancellor saying she's exposed germany to huge all of the e.u. states why agreeing a banking union mrs merkel dismissed the economist fears she said the union is first of all about better banking supervision and that is urgently necessary and dropped today we'll have more for you next all right thanks for that update danielle. here lavelle's cross-talk is coming up in a few minutes that's after a minder that's right has made headlines with me.

culture is that so much observant and there's a huge music history on the mark when it's the arab spring finally coming to sudan as the protest movement grows the regime of al bashir appears to have limited options with the control. of. the be. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china corporations are old today.

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