apparent confessions by rebel fighters on syrian state television suggest they received orders to attack government troops in the province of hamas the details shed new light on the mouse bloodshed in which activists claim over two hundred people were killed. in a fiery backlash and israeli activist torches themselves during a demonstration in tel aviv this as thousands of rally throughout the country to mark the first year of a new movement against social injustice. let's get this party started. well high spirits among the next space station crew are going to check in with the intrepid team who is going to take off in a less than four hours. good

morning to you four am here in the russian capital i'm lucy catherine up in there watching our team well our top story today four rebel fighters have told syrian state television that they were given orders to attack security forces in the province of homologous of course is the site of a suspected massacre earlier this week. now in an apparent confession the group had said that they were given an order to take up positions across the town before the syrian army enter it in order to strike first now these details are emerging as the un's observer mission has arrived to the saving in order to revive and investigate reports of the carnage which according to activists had left over two hundred people dead if washington and its allies had claimed to be outside the government for the attacks now author and historian gerald horne said the timing of the bloodshed just ahead of the un security council to go has been chosen on purpose this is the saudi. government arming these rebels so that what they are cooperating

with the church it's also will know that there are those who would like to see a replay of the libyan misadventure when cries. metatheory and intervention was basically a matter for a regime change and regime change is the name of the game when it comes to syria it's very curious just before united nations meetings the next place on july twentieth we hear reports about massacres hold if you will massacres hopeful just a few weeks ago well it's often hard to get the truth in the fog of war but artie's maria financial is one of the few foreign correspondents reporting from the heart of syria's unrest you can follow the latest developments from the conflict zone on her twitter feed there you can also find firsthand comments and alice's as well as images.

of disturbing development a protester has apparently set himself off fire during protests in tel aviv this is as thousands of israelis have gathered for nationwide strikes markie. a year since the start of a movement for social justice the man is now being treated for serious injuries in the hospital now campaigners in israel hope that the anniversary will give a second wind to their demands for better public services such as health education and housing one activist she joined us earlier from the heart of the protests she says that the movement will not die out until israelis see real change all over the seasons and the committees who are held by the government who are completely cosmetics their real change the. name of being by the government is trying to put us down by not really doing any kind of change after one year but

we're not going to go back home we're going to keep on spending in the streets and keep on fighting until that will be a real change in israel people left wing and right wing. the same interests that their kids won't go hungry to school. poor poor housing where nonviolence where people from do if it's really important for me to say that. well u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has arrived in the egypt for her very first talks with the country's newly elected president islamised mohamed morsi now she says that she is in the country to push for the completion of a post revolution change and for economic restoration now middle east expert and independent journalist of larry everest says that this illustrates america's eagerness to retain influence in egypt. hillary clinton is claims she's there to

help the people themselves determine their future but that's not what's going on line hillary clinton and the rest of the us establishment are working in a very fraught situation to make sure the military the military with which they have deep and long standing ties remains the dominant force in the egyptian state as it remains today and the the gyptian state which was so discredited under mubarak actually religion in my eyes and strengthened by incorporating new social forces like the muslim brotherhood there was no revolution in egypt a state power a means in the hands of the same institutions and class the brotherhood represents no fundamental break only of. egypt's role in the u.s. dominated the overall capitalist economy or a break with u.s.

interests in the middle east the u.s. remains a dominant power it's trying to maintain a dominant in the new situation with new tactics in the wake of the arab spring as people are rising up against the old order of the u.s. superior. their grip on this region at all while the world's top whistleblower juliana songe is awaiting for an asylum ruling at that dorian embassy in london his cause is thriving across the pond at the atlantic now at the conference in new york city the hacker group that inspired the creation of wiki leaks has been gathering to protest against the u.s. government's quote big brother policy is our own part was there before there was a week in week there was hope that an acronym that stands for actors on planet earth and i am at their home nine. conference in new york city this is

a fine time you will advance for hackers come together to discuss different topics such as government surveillance freedom on the internet he says surrounding whistleblowers and of course there are also discussions about how do you see the system two years ago julian assange founder of wiki leaks was supposed to be the keynote speaker at the last conference this year it was menacing whistleblower william binney he worked for the n.s.a. thirty seven years for stepping down he said that it was the u.s. government's encroaching surveillance of its citizens that was attempting to finally leave his post now he says he wants to make sure that all americans are aware of how their privacy is being violated the fundamental thing that's eating away at the at the real foundation of this country is the same buying that's going on internally in the united states against some of our own people you know when you had the freedom to do think you could try things and you had but you felt that this

country would like to try things and now you're starting to sense the sense is that people are getting is that they're spying on us trying to control us when you should do certain things and not other things do you think julian assange in some way provided a good service to americans you know yeah absolutely because it's freedom of information it makes people in government accountable for their actions but the majority of people here are a few supporters of freedom of information that's essentially the same thing that julian the son said were pelted him inspired him to read we can only subsequently disclose classified information but governments around the world according to me or you know organize our team. well adding to concerns about privacy or reports of new fairly invasive laser based scanners they're supposed to be deployed in us airports and border crossings now imagine this you're standing at the airport at a border crossing and one of these machines. can detect anything that's on or in

your body even your lunch from up to fifty meters away now earlier we spoke to independent journalist and analyst charlie mcgrath who says that these machines are about making money and not improving security. look at the fact that we're now it's like drones for domestic law enforcement around the country of course we're going to see disparate to the general public we will be under the eye of big brother were going to hear that argument from the mainstream and from the businesses that stand to reap an amazing windfall from the sale of these kind of devices that you know it's better for the safety of the people of this country it's better for the safety the people the world there is no threat of terror that's a canard so absolutely it's something we should be concerned about we've seen since nine eleven the introduction of the patriot act and every other piece of so-called legislation that's protecting the people is the enriching of the financial super elite in the security industry a complex we see a perpetuation of the fine ocracy where financial interests write legislation that govern this country and all this talk of fearing argument in

a shot out of every closet or coming up from underneath everybody's bed is nothing more than a fear tactic so we can enrich a very few people on this planet well as well as the stories that we're covering here on the air as always with a lot more stuff for you on our website just head over to our team dot com. now it could be difficult to light up a cigarette in your very own apartment if you can imagine that this is in a los angeles city officials there are planning what they say is a step to improve public health. also extreme measures in the a limb thanks in london as the royal air force is given permission to shoot down passenger jets in a security crisis situation. one needs of the spear time to obtain peace and spirituality.

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when new budget cuts are supposed to reduce spain's national deficit by about sixty billion euros have led to a fresh eruption of public anger and protests on the streets of that country unfortunately rallies during the week quickly turned violent when police charged and beat demonstrators were also firing rubber bullets and more than seventy people were killed pardon me were injured in the clashes the austerity cuts driving the trouble include tax hikes and the promise of painful pension changes but the protesters say that they are being forced to pay for the mistakes of politicians and bankers now those measures were demanded by the spain's e.u. creditors who have pledged madrid a vital bailout for crippled spanish banks gonzalo lira he's a founder of the dot com crisis planning organization says that he expects more violence to come. in at the basically as you're going to see coal but they are going to do the forms that need to be done so far as the baby systems concert

together based profits are obscene but i doubt that these governments of daily living out the team is just simply conscionable you know of course the people realize these have they are upset about it but of course the politicians do absolutely nothing to gain. part of the gangsters and instead without the police to start to be very cold about it cracking eggs now as we continue to cut these benefits we're going to see want more social unrest this is led politicians to assume that more force is needed to maintain the peace and this of course means more violence against people while it's against the people means more protests there are a lot as they are squeezed economically socially and politically and so i would expect to see more and more protests that turn violent and more and more. growth in the extreme political parties as these extremist parties begin to make political hay out of people's discontent we're going to see this in spain in italy and we're going to see in france in the near term going to be the next year or two and so i

would this is just the beginning we're going to see a lot worse soon. well the pictures coming out of spain these weeks are fairly similar to what we saw on the streets of greece over the past few years of course in that country with tear gas and molotov cocktails and those lines of infamous riot police were no longer a common sight instead a long standing public anger is now taking on new forms of expression or to take a craze has more. greek streets have come to embody and rage in the eurozone huge crowds have marched to voice their anger. discontent fooling on deaf ears is different to have also been employed so many the graffiti strewn on the capital. is simply an eyesore of those it's a chance to keep them message keep that demonstration. of this nobody else on the streets protesting. with those rather than amplify is that outrage is left

a last thing impact around greece my mind has not been made my mind. going by the name of muppets he launched a uses. bt to combat the growth in far right racism is taking the country by storm but others target the government's relationship with a major euro zone play is an impact it's had on a disparate population we can see here marrying and the money that the politicians spend about buying things we don't really want that military hardware was acquired from germany the official who bought it now resides in prison on charges of corruption some works appear to be more angry screws an outlet for a generation that feels forgotten a more direct attempt to sway the opinion of a nation but a very it's every new forms of activism we don't have an experience of this kind in

the past mainly because since i was born at least or a couple of years later after the germans left greece as an occupying force it's been it's been an upward ruled all the way he's last two or three years have been greece's first experience of going down rather than upward a stool economy is soaring jobless rates a feud much of the anger from the podium to the prominent increasingly the e.u. eurozone and i.m.f. troika are being depicted as the rulers of greece of domestic politicians the subjects. you need to work on a sentiment that's growing and what's the government continues to do with the euro zone imposed austerity the writing for greece is ready on the wall j.q. greece athens. well paraguayan faces

a virtual isolation in south america with neighboring states describing the swift ousting of former president fernando lugo in june as a kind of new coup now are still argentina and venezuela have loosened times when the state over deep concerns about the former leaders removal. parliament has voted for impeachment over the last two months of deadly clashes between farmers and police and inhibition dispute that saw seventeen people killed he was appointed as former deputy frederico franco who will now lead a transitional government until elections next april now in an interview with r t the deposed leader says what he thinks was behind his removal of the young that parliament this parliament is dominated by traditionalists conservatives and right wingers and even if jesus christ shows up out of the blue and tells them to change their mind they were in the right we were sabotaged all the way parliament gave us a budget with a deficit of eight hundred billion dollars so firms were in short supply for

everything and when the truck propelled a deep crisis they asked us for fifty billion dollars for their politicians mind you these politicians are members of political parties who get paid for nothing so we said no that was the straw that broke the camel's back it was a politically charged trial disguised as a constitutional process as one m.p. said it all looked like a circus designed to depose a democratically elected president. and you can watch the rest of this interview with fernando lugo later this hour after that we'll also hear from the man who replaced him the new president for draco franco and he gives his reaction to the coup claims. are well just a few hours to go before a new international space station a crew of three blast off into the final frontier r.t.s. the bang might say has been to the launch site and spoke to those who will soon soar with the stars. in the scorching heat of kazakstan right they in the distance

lies the rocket launcher that will be propelling at the thought used here may outdo the eye and says from by cannot cause metairie about the team have had a very very busy weekend they've had press conferences with cameras and photographers all of the celebrity like lifestyle for them just before their big day friends and family have been gathered here at baikonur cosmodrome just giving them support and saying that we're all behind you on your important mission what will they be doing up there well as always a research and scientific research is on the agenda they'll be looking at looking at how humans can live in orbit with the world's media watching and photographers clicking the shot as a way to get the perfect shot one wonders how the three people on the spot like today feel about their next mission to the international space station expedition thirty two thirty three is underway because they sort of started thinking about this a little bit and the black eyed peas come to mind and if you know the song tonight's

going to be a good time and the second one of course is let's get this party started after two weeks in but we're all very relaxed including the back of crews. we're ready for launch and. not just us but the vehicle itself is ready and willing. i took one of my daughters small plastic toys i took it by accident so i must bring it back yuri of course was the first person to get married in space and his spirit of strength has always been his wife when i was how she felt she said oh lots of emotion but i'm happy that he's doing what he loves to do so but that i'll be without him for the space shuttle missions rely on many resources to make them possible but the rocket pad and space craft remains one of the most important aspects of getting the astronauts to orbit tons of steel and engineering put together so signs and astronauts can continue their research so what will this

mission be looking out for at. at the i assess i think the crew is going to have a really exciting time onboard space station because there's going to be so many activities going on with. nine visiting vehicles going to be arriving and leaving from the station. and the e.v.a.'s three b. is a big going on as well so it's going to be a very busy time for them. and then i have flown with yuri on my last flight so i know they'll have a good time with siri. sonny is just very outgoing big areas saw use the launch of facilities technical complex constructions it really isn't rocket science but what about those who live among the rockets themselves the scientists what's life like for them living yeah when i go to work and i see a broken disappearing into the sky as i always clap it's a tradition here for good luck getting you can explain how i feel when i see a rocket launch every time it makes me feel nervous as if it was the first time i'd

seen it i'm also very proud then to nationals based asian is the largest and most complex scientific project in history as the station's potential continues to grow most sophisticated research is in demand it's a shared vision of these astronauts and their community we're always looking to get the party started from earth to the milky way. to bomb with a team by colonel kazakh sun. fry it will in theory a political campaign should highlight a candidate strengths but unfortunately these are often used to personally attack on opponents so are these kinds of political smear tactics fair or foul let's take a look at what people on the streets of the big apple have to say here is the latest from the president in new york city.

this is the year of important elections the world around and many of them involve dirty negative campaigning are you ok with that this week let's talk about that john f. kennedy would have never got elected. today would his lifestyle a womanising enormous yes absolutely i've still is that a good thing that politicians go there or is it better we just don't know it's very don't know chris is going to do with being a politician get i don't think we have to mix politics with personal. life yet but if it helps someone get elected is that ok. i don't think so if one candidate is doing towards another i think that's a little unfair but if both are going back and forth which they normally are i think it's completely fair it's all part of the game in politics and i think that it's a fair point is that like that and now when all you know out here is crazy about that they are laura's just more calm or do they stick to the

issues yes so do you feel like more gets done that way yes i think so it's not all about the personal lives or who's left who is the public so dumb that we don't recognize it's all spin and flop why are we demanding more i don't think we're dumb we're just complacent we want to be taken care of we don't really care we think it's going to be ok and we really don't feel like we have a. voice how is it in denmark well not as bad and. well yes the same tendency. they lost ideas and. tried to get power as many of the political parties i think yeah when power is on the table anything goes right how does it change. take our money take out power but i mean it's it's it's something that's just kind of just pop. art of how it works unfortunately so i don't think there's

a fairy tale way that i would rather hear about their policies and their records as politicians and public servants if one politician stuck to that while the other one was throwing mud what do you think would win. i like to think that the guy that stuck to his record of the woman who stuck to her record when i'm voting for her to get me to matter whether or not you think it's ok for politicians just near their opponents the bottom line is it's up to each of us just sort through the noise to find the true price that. fall back with a quick recap of the headlines in just a few moments stay tuned to our take.

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