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in the heart of moscow where it's now just after two pm. fierce clashes continue across syria as rebels have managed to seize border crossings to iraq and turkey as well. trying to build on the momentum gained by advances near the capital and wednesday's attack that killed top syrian military officials and more details on this. free syrian army soldiers are now controlling all four border crossings at the syrian iraqi border but without toll official has also said that the iraqi guards have witnessed extreme ballers

from the side of free syrian army soldiers from opposition fighters we also been able to see the to posted on you tube from the syrian turkish border where gunmen have been shouting religious slogans and shooting. portrays a free syrian army has been able to take control over crossings at the border that means that they they are very determined in large scale operation against a regime of president bashar al assad but that doesn't necessarily mean that they still keep in this control because everything changes very fast we've been here on the ground for almost fifty days already and i have to say what we've been able to see in the last five days has been the most dramatic moment for the syrian capital by the clashes between the army and the rebels have been taking place in at least five districts over damascus and it's been extremely difficult to get in these districts but on thursday we finally managed to do that and what we saw really

devastating destroyed streets abandoned houses no people of variously and many many traces of war and of very fierce clashes we've even seen many tracks of tanks and all of the not totally on the roads but on what used to be the cars obviously all closed and we have to understand that these districts are not remote . damascus suburb not far from the center of the city center we've been here for one the month now and we've been to these districts many times. by and something talking to people and of course it's been very sad. to see how different the picture is right now people are trying to deal with this situation and we are in mazed how brave they are in this situation facing horror of war that has come to their home they say yes we know it is happening right now here in damascus and in

our country it's been here for seventeen months already but we cannot do anything with these and life has to go on and we have to leave so they're trying to do with this is just waiting for this nightmare to end this is what they say. chorus one of our a phenomenal reporting that there will meantime the u.n. security council has agreed to disagree on syria russia and china have vetoed another attempt by western states to push a resolution threatening sanctions and use of force against the assad regime now the extension of the u.n. observer mission in syria is at stake as are his very important reports. russia has said for from the get go that he would not support any resolutions on syria that would include the potential of sanctions being imposed or even military intervention this western backed resolution that was drafted by the u.k.

called on damascus to immediately seize any kind of fighting and the use of heavy weapons and withdraw from populated centers and the resolution gave the syrian government ten days to comply with those demands otherwise sanctions would be imposed. what was attached to that draft resolution is a forty five day extension of the u.n. supervision mission in syria so that is quite clear why russia would not give its support to this western backed resolution because it was putting all the pressure and consequence on the syrian government and not putting any pressure consequence on the armed opposition that are part that's participating in the violence in syria that has been increasing as we've seen over the past seventeen months the russian ambassador to the united nations vitaly churkin did address the media saying that there is still time for the security council to reach a consensus but he said that russia would not support any moves or pass for

military intervention into syria and he also warned western countries may be trying to destabilize syria to possibly of move further in and around iran the strategy of well some call it was to seems to be. on their own syria every opportunity this time. of the need to extend the mandate of the monitoring mission . in syria. in number of unacceptable clauses zero or concerns is that. people have to suffer the consequences of this geopolitical geopolitical struggle the clock is ticking. because if this mandate expires and it is not renewed then that means that the united nations would not have any force in syria that is verifying what is taking place on the ground what. the un said is that they have

drafted britain has drafted a new resolution that was over the u.n. mission in syria for a final thirty days and that is something which the security council is considering but according to turkish there are still very many questions surrounding this new drama that has been proposed by britain the british draft is in many ways. because it has only two q but that are going to and they contradict each other the first that are going to says that it's the final extension of thirty days and the second paragraph says that the mission can be extended provided certain conditions are being made and the united nations at the end of the day does need a mission in the ground because if that mission is removed then the situation in syria can get worse without any objective reporting that's tied to the u.n. . of course one of the reporting that well in an exclusive interview with the russian ambassador to the un vitaly churkin explained why the country said no to

the west and backed resolution in the crucial vote on syria you can see the end of you in approximately twenty five minutes here on scene meanwhile rumors of the spreading now while the room is running rough i should say that assad may be ready to step down the international media quoting a russian ambassador they're not the only rumors though that we have been hearing this trying to get the bottom of this. standing by sean as you heard me say rumors are running a rifle any luck establishing the fact from fiction. well laurie these rumors stand out from reporting from arabic where russia's ambassador to france alexander orlov is reported to have said that bashar al assad is ready to step down but to do so in a civilized manner and this comes from a communique an internal communique where the diplomat said and i'm reading this from the report that during a meeting in geneva by the syria action group on june thirtieth the final communique provided for a transition to

a more democratic regime was accepted by assad he agreed to leave but only in a civilized way now what we are hearing is that this is possibly taken out of context and this is not confirmed by the ministry of foreign affairs here in russia now assad himself has said that he is willing to step down in a peaceful way if it is the will of the people but not ousted out by force and again the foreign ministry has said that. this is a part of an information bubble that the international bandwagon they've all gotten excited about the possibility that assad could step down but according to a spokesperson here you be. he has said that you have to be careful about such information in the early stages in fact there are rumors even that bashar assad has already fled the country and that his wife has to come. to syria from syria to russia but they're not commenting on these ads that these are just rumors and that in the early stages these could be information traps and that often under scrutiny

these information bubbles often pop so obviously take taking the situation seriously looking into the information but right now just rumors and as we all know in this business it doesn't take much for the room of mail to get cranked up. live in moscow thank you. now angry protesters were met with tear gas and rubber bullets on spanish streets as they marched against more planned austerity a number of people were injured and detained clashes followed massive peaceful demonstrations which were joined by hundreds of thousands of people all across spain people are furious that public spending is once again being slashed in response to rescuing the banks the german parliament gave the green light for the one hundred euro bailout on thursday and current affairs journalist charlie mcgrath says the european governments are ultimately betraying their own people. in europe just like the rest of the world you know the what the western world we have

a system that is putting the onerous fraudulent debt of a bunch of private institutions on the back of the people now they're calling it austerity and then a lot of people are you know they're completely frustrated they have nowhere else to turn and a lot of the signs even say we have nothing else that we can do other than take to the streets there is no representative government where there are there happens to be politicians that want to stand up on behalf of the people you know we have the european community deposing them in installing their own technocrats so you know the heavy handed tactics you know bought and paid for security that's going to go out and quell the rabble if the government decided to do the right thing by the people of the country i think there would be understanding that we're going to all go through the west the united states europe the entire planet is going to go through some tough economic times but when you have politicians going forward and saying well you know what we're going to take more of your financial future so we can give it to a bunch of banks you know there's going to be reaching a limit of understanding by the citizenry of the world. i know when it comes to

spain almost six million people are out of a job that's struggling to find the means to support themselves and of course their families some of seeking a better life beyond the borders of their country but it looks like they might have to go further afield the neighboring eurozone states so this story to ati's tesser australia. twenty four point six million people are without jobs across the european union seventeen point four million of them in the eurozone countries with unemployment at its highest levels of the single currency was introduced in spain unemployment hit twenty four point three percent the worst rate in the e.u. and among the spanish and greek youth it's more than half statistics may paint the big picture but they don't quite show the human story real people struggling through each day like this one gary a man who came to belgium three months ago that's leaving in history then i never did before so it's really really hard to separate you know i don't want b.b.c.

korean families i don't want i don't i don't want me did you know is that. i want to work i want to go to. the current levels of unemployment on acceptable. it's been if it is it simply cannot continue this way and it also leads to reliance on state subsidies a plight faced by job seekers across all sectors and all levels of society and when you are within the european institutions you are a little bit detached from there and you are among the. euro kratz when you say unemployment benefits are too high compared to paid salaries this is the wrong way to see the problem most people aren't paid enough for their jobs in two thousand and ten more than twenty five percent of the use g.d.p. was devoted to social benefits seen as a heavy burden on

a crisis stricken europe since then various cuts have been laid by the member states particularly. those spain and ireland a sportive opposed to stere even powerhouse germany has joined in the crunch a local newspaper reported seeing a leaked directive from the labor ministry. blocking basic unemployment benefits for people who moved to germany from some e.u. countries it's been a target it is an attempt to curb abuse of the system by discouraging immigration from struggling economies you can't really blame. people they are just a victim if you want from you can the system in which there are. many of those who don't turn to the state for unemployment benefits which may be reduced if it hasn't been already due to continue the steady across the e.u. a substantive budget cuts have also stunted economic growth and job creation it's nice job seeker at exactly the same spot. state dependent and increasingly extreme

cases living in desperation just are still here r t brussels and it is coming from the heart of moscow still to come on the program. the u.k. declare a cyberwar on its enemies. use it. to protect the country's interests even though all the while it's illegal. hour here in moscow israel now blaming hezbollah the lebanese ally of iran for carrying out an attack on a bus with this ready tourists left six people dead israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said that all signs pointed at iran with refuting the accusations as baseless but the standoff between the two seems to have reached new heights as. reports. but no minutes on yahoo says that the fault because of this attack that

happened on wednesday in the bulgarian city of burgas is clearly on the shoulders of hizbollah netanyahu says that his bill that acts as the long term of iran in the region and while this is no secret certainly everybody here does know that hizbullah is a proxy for iran the fact that in a time yahoo is not naming his below is only going to for the stroke tensions in the region not israel has tried to deal with has been on the past but it has failed back in two thousand and six israel went to war with lebanon on over his below but by all accounts that was a war which israel lost to some since israel has almost an say told school card with hizbollah but the timing could not be worse you've gone to a region in flux you've got ongoing violence in neighboring syria you've got for the first time and is a numbers president in neighboring egypt but netanyahu is also known for often using the international concerns and the international community to do it to detract attention away from problems and has on the domestic front there is the

real threat that you will see social protest is growing in number in the coming weeks and at the same time this week the largest israeli political party could do. the ruling coalition of netanyahu says that he has problems to deal with on the domestic front paws were reporting right the political analyst come out wasn't he believes the claims are nothing more than simple rhetoric aimed at improving his own political stuff there. that has made it very clear that they are not going to use tourist in eastern europe to carry. against the really and i think very clear statement they're against killing i mean the weather is an israeli or other people but i think mr netanyahu always tried to play the iranian card card to remind the international community that he has and i mean it comes to the point because the nuclear file. always wanted to keep it light

it's merely rhetoric and i wouldn't put a lot of money on what netanyahu will say and he's very good at what he does are using this a propaganda game popularity inside of israel but i think at this point the region is on fire and i think every indian or hizbullah will take you know a shot of million israeli which clearly said they will not target. israel. now iran and other countries are at odds with the u.s. and europe could find themselves under a fresh but unconventional attack british m.p. you say the u.k. should declare cyber war on states and organizations which talk about it carrying out aggressive. itself. with us a story if you can't beat em join em that seems to be britain's new attitude when it comes to dealing with. a new report by the u.k.'s intelligence and security

commission has concluded it's no skin off to defend. attacks additionally the military spy agencies should be actively declaring. on enemy state attack evidently is that the best form of defense although in this case they're calling it active defense. barry voicing that britain should be secretly hacking into enemy systems using programs like the stuxnet virus which disrupted iran its nuclear enrichment program it comes just two years after the launch of a six hundred fifty million pounds national soluble security program but progress according to the m.p.'s on the committee has been slow the national security strategy ranks the threat of cyber attacks alongside that of terrorism and yet this committee of m.p.'s seems fully prepared to engage in it itself this despite the

fact that the report says the communications agency g c h q believes eighty percent of cyber attacks all preventable three basic measures like using security software and proper post. cyber attacks of course have another name hacking it's illegal in most countries including the u.k. and britain has its first hacking case is currently in the courts including that of autism suffer a gary mckinnon he's been fighting his extradition to the us for hacking into the pentagon's computer system for ten years now so far his government has refused to protect him maybe if state sponsored hacking becomes the norm that will change. no it was on our website on the latest news and videos as well that's a couple of things you will hear right now. a third of the children who live in the area affected by last year's nuclear disaster. from counts. in

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video. feed with the palm of your. comb in just a moment with the business for. that will start with a grizzly shooting happening in the u.s. at least forty people have been killed dozens injured after a shooting at a suburban cinema in the u.s. city of denver ten people died at the scene for more later in hospital. the new batman movie the dark knight rises the. gunman. was arrested in the cinemas parking lot but they're also been reports the man fired tear gas during viet. fresh and the regime protests a bigger pool of it. themselves also to charge it that they would quote never

accept she really action protests against the ruling family and for political reform have been taking place since february last year the pressure is between demonstrators and riot police the regime has been trying to suppress the opposition by banning rallies arresting activists. thousands of british border guards walk out of jobs on the eve of the olympic games in a dispute over pay even without the strike have been plagued by long queues as they struggle to cope with the huge volume of visitors the london games have already been hit by a number of embarrassing said banks in the country forced thousands of soldiers after a private security provider failed to train enough stuff. by the business desk it seems the whole world is struggling financially right now but perhaps from what i understand russia is not doing too badly when we consider

things like budget deficit the government of course it does seem i've also is doing better than all other countries and of course we do have the latest research. basically investors should be look at supporting companies that are based here in russia i have more on that in just a minute but first let's take a look at the latest market action it's a bit of a depressant day in europe all the figures are points and lower the footsies losing point four percent the german that says slipped into negative territory at this hour and basically investors are concerned. about the higher and higher and also for everything that's happened in the country is not really encouraging them everyone to take a look at currencies will see that the euro is still losing against the u.s. dollar one of the bull we're seeing gains against both major currencies. what is happening in the u.k. on the international monetary fund has more that the economy there may suffer permanent damage after the financial crisis and basically the agency stays on the

conscience of. public investment and also perhaps. pleasures and earlier we spoke to mark from back from my capital economics research consultancy and you can simply compare the recent extension all the spending cuts in the u.k. it's it's once it's once and that's why the measures in the us could learn from that. the u.s. economy is recovering the recovery is not particularly strong but unemployment strong growth. if you look at the eurozone. economic indicators are pointing downwards on the poor the. u.s. with a. truck. kind of a continue and take a look at there are some markets pessimists that day today both the r.t.s. and the my successor of the one percent prices also have a major effect on that they're not coming down from a week that's good if we take a look at the numbers for crude prices we will see that and basically what is happening is that we're getting signs that demand will be weakening and also the

recent gains we saw there is speculation that there were excessive because we had a worse than expected economic data from oil to russia as a main arms i guess what i has now a more million dollar contract with the u.s. plans are gone but also about on export i had a deal to sell my seventeen helicopters there were to be used by afghan forces after the u.s. withdraws from afghanistan in two thousand and fourteen bots washington has now below the existing agreements claim in the russian company is arming the syrian regime. this spiral about as i was mentioning earlier according to the latest research by banking china citigroup russia is seen as a practice place to park cash for investors a warrior about what to do with their money where its invest here's a six planes why russia is a good bet right now. the eurozone crisis is three years in the making and there's

no end in sight so working retail investors safely mark their money to wait out the storm banking giant citi group says russia why while their answer is simple russia's economy is stronger and has more potential than most european economies see for yourself russia's g.d.p. may grow as much as four percent this year that's according to the economy ministry europe while most of it expects negative growth in two thousand and twelve even the strongest economies show a meager rates debt debt related problems are investors nightmares while turns out russia has these lowest levels of government and corporate debt of any country in europe around nine percent the average for the eurozone is ten times that while europe struggling with double digit unemployment russia's jobless rate when they fell to the lowest level in thirteen years and this is stimulating consumption russia's already europe's biggest consumer in many categories and this year expected to be the absolute leader germany in terms of course sales how can you

capitalize on russia's relative strength citigroup suggests investing into global companies with sales in russia. on the top story i think that business when watching us would be willing to invest into anything she said oh. well it didn't she's very convincing which is yes it is and all of the elevator goes well thank you very much so you saying all right just number the headlines with and straight out about of area well an exclusive r.t. and if you were the russians ambassador to the u.n. certainly explaining why moscow opposes western backed resolutions on syria just a sec.