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he starts on t.v. . with just hours to go before the u.n. supervision mission in syria expires another showdown is taking place at the u.n. security council details from new york coming up. meanwhile rumors run riot over the fate and future of the embattled syrian president himself . true or false is a bashar al assad ready to step down as president of syria and john thomas in moscow and coming up we sort out all of the details. police greed angry crowds with tear gas and rubber bullets in the streets of spain as the public rages against the latest wave of austerity imposed on the country in return for a bank rescue by the e.u.
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. it's a pleasure to have you with us here on our to today. live in moscow the u.n. observer mission to syria expires later on friday but the security council still split over a resolution to extend it another vote is expected any moment now after russia and china yesterday vetoed a western backed draft which they considered simply put is unacceptable and with more from new york. now joins us live here on the program good to see you so so what's russia claiming is at stake if indeed the observer mission is not extended today. well of russia and i have to say add to that the secretary general of the un and joint special envoy kofi annan all say that there's a lot at stake if this mandate is not extended because we have to remember these as this is a group of three hundred on arm u.n.
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observers in syria to monitor what is taking place there verify what's happening on the ground and to report back to the security council now initially this is a raid so terribly the stories are really just going to interrupt you just a moment i do apologize indeed they are voting right now at the u.n. where you are just outside we are now looking at live pictures from the u.n. security council of the vote on the latest draft resolutions taking place. saying it's now less than six hours before the u.n. observer to syria expires and the vote in new york is a that extending that there are two resolutions on the table today and one drafted by the u.k. another by. the last one is to extend the mission by forty five days and that proposal is being backed by russia the british calls for a one month extension the vote has just been made we'll get you more details on that as they come to us here and i'll see let's return now to all these marina portnoy in new york and i do apologize for interrupting you just
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a big apologies if you continue where will you just now. i was explaining what would happen if the mandate was not extended it would be a big blow to any kind of international process that is helping to monitor the crisis in syria the vote did just happen rory as you mentioned i wasn't listening to it we do see that all the security council members are now leaving the chambers i have imagine that they voted either on the u.k. draft or the draft by of pakistan it's not clear because i was not listening but just so our viewers know that the u.k. draft was a technical rollover of the u.n. mission in syria for thirty days thirty days and then it's done from what has been reported now we do know that they did extend this mission so it has been extended the u.n. supervision mission in syria has been extended now this mission though did suspend activities in mid june because the violence escalated so bad that the head of the
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mission said that it was too dangerous for the u.n. monitors to be out engaging very extensively with with the syrians and so they were trying to observe more than engage and help downplay or decrease the violence that is taking place we do know that the mission was sent there after kofi annan six point peace plan was adopted now the major point in that peace plan is for there to be a cessation of violence from both sides the syrian government and the armed opposition and we saw that even after kofi annan plan was put in place violence has only gotten worse so what we can report at this point is that there has been a consensus finally reached among the security council to rule over this mission and extend it because otherwise it would have expired as you said within a few hours now when it came to yesterday's draft resolution that was proposed by
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the u.k. russia and china vetoing and that's because it demanded for sanctions to be put upon. the syrian government if i didn't ask is did not stop using heavy weapons and remove its military from heavily populated centers within ten days russia and china believe that that pressure and consequence only being put on the syrian government and not on the arm position was not a balanced approach for the international community to take so now we know that there was some type of consensus reached at the very least this mission is going to be rolled over indeed as you and i have been talking here you outside the u.n. myself here and indeed it has been approved unanimously approved whether the observer mission will be extended in syria this is not the pakistani of ocean of the resolution this is the british one of what we can confirm here on the observer mission in syria just now the u.n. has been approved for an extension in new york thank you. well in the meantime
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though witnesses are reporting a large explosions in damascus as the fighting in the capital now rages into its fifth day of battles are also continuing all throughout the country syrian state media claims assad's military forces who have won back control possibly now of four rebellious districts in damascus meanwhile the u.n. is trying to verify reports of up to thirty thousand refugees having fled to lebanon in just the last forty eight was activists claim the army's launched attacks on border crossings with turkey and iraq which was seized by the rebels yesterday or the raids are said to involve heavy shelling and artillery fire maria has been keeping all across all the developments for us so she reports now from damascus. free syrian army soldiers are now controlling all four border crossings at the syrian iraqi border but daoud top official has also said that the iraqi guards have witnessed extreme boilers from the side of free syrian army soldiers
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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 regime of president bashar al assad but that doesn't necessarily mean that there's still keep in this control because everything changes very fast we have to be very careful with information and even with picture is we see because since the beginning of this our prize in it's also been media war and just recently we've been hearing from opposition that they've managed to take control over the airport just yesterday we were at the airport here in damascus and it's functioning normally 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
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syrian capital of the clashes between the army and the gravels have been taking place in at least five districts all damascus and it's been extremely difficult to get in side these districts but on thursday we've finally managed to do that and what we saw really it's a devastating destroyed street 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 although not totally on the road spurred on what used to be the cars. obviously all shops are closed and we have to understand that these districts are not remote. damascus suburb it's not far from the center the city center we've been here for one of the months now and we've been to these districts many times. buying
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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. and if you were up to date on what's happening in syria you can simply follow maria's twitter feed she is today one of the few international correspondents still reporting right in the heart of the chaos and get photos from the scene firsthand impressions just fine maria. underscored by. meanwhile the world has been going around but president assad may be ready to step
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down with some international citing a russian ambassador statement however official said the diplomats words were misinterpreted by the media as sean thomas now tries to explain. these reports came out from al-arabiya t.v. and this is what russia's a bass or alexander or love is reported to say that there was a meeting here in geneva and at that meeting they adopted a communique where help that they agreed to allow for a transition of power to a more democratic regime but bashar al assad was app that meeting he agreed to this communicate even he even appointed a person to work with the opposition and negotiate with the opposition and agreed to to leave and do so in a cordial manner now what we have now confronted with the russian diplomatic mission in paris which is where ambassador all of his a station that he says that these words were taken out of context and it says the
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meaning of the ambassador's words were that bashar al assad can stay in power and he could go but this is a decision they can be made not by the u.n. security council not by anyone else but only by the president himself and by the syrian people certainly there's always rumors in fact it's hard to believe anything that comes out of syria unless you can he personally see it for yourself because there's lots of different sources of information and misinformation as a word we've heard that bashar al assad has fled damascus we've also heard that assad has been injured and just immediately after those reports came out there were pictures of assad perfectly fine having not been injured also reports of assad's wife coming here to moscow and about those rumors the foreign ministry here in russia has said on the general idea of rumors that the world is usually awash with rumors these rumors tended to game some information around and spread very fast i
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would not like to comment on any rumors today i think that it is a very honest information trap and that we should be careful not to fall into it so basically a lot of information out there lots of misinformation out there and telling people to be careful what they believe. thomas reporting right there will always a more news and videos available for you any time and i see the comments of a quick look now and see what's standing by for you there at the moment the war between u.s. officials and whistleblowers intensifies as defense secretary leon panetta tightening the screws on american media all the details on that but also though. more than a third of children living near japan's crippled nuclear power plant could suffer from cancer in the future a shocking report revealed for you online there are two dot com. and israel planning to use the ball gary a bomb attack as a pretext for war with iran if you go to r.t. dot com you can find extensive analysis of the possible consequences.
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live from moscow this is our police have been using rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse angry protesters thronging the streets of spain dozens of people injured certainly a number of the activists detained during the latest nation wide anti austerity demonstrations a major show of strength i reports of up to a million people possibly taking part in the protests we have reports of people march me in eighty cities across the country to protest against more suffocating austerity yet to come as after the german parliament gave the green light to the hundred billion euro bailout for the country's battered banks use finance ministers have approved the conditions for the financial lifeline to madrid which call for
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the strict monitoring of the banks that received the aid. sociologist upon cool factor university believes the situation in spain is only going from bad to worse. what we're seeing is a massive transfer of public private debt into. public debt and that's that's where it really begins to harm the actual citizens of spain it's this sort of this these plans. are not even being done on a large enough scale to really have any effect any positive effect for the people in spain when you take their food you take all that they have homes and they respond quite viscerally i mean yesterday you know we saw in madrid for instance wasn't you know violent an artists and a group that decided to burn a bunch of dumpsters what we saw were police charging against other police protesting police we saw them charging against firemen and women we saw them
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charging against public sector workers and chasing them through the streets of madrid and you know neighborhood neighborhoods in madrid the actual people that live there were actually throwing flower pots from the balconies at the police now that's a qualitative change from what we've seen over the last year in spain certainly you see people living in a.t.m. an a.t.m. buildings right in little a.t.m. services and you see them living out in the streets looking in the in the trash you know for food i mean these are people that that two years ago were working ok and they were working and maintaining families and now they're very livelihoods are threatened and of course tensions are going to boil over. i get some more insight now from this or not with a. study by the r.t. business good to see you katie we're talking about spain here you know it's the first fourth largest economy yet it's got twenty five percent unemployment six million people out of work sounds pretty bad it does some pretty bad it is worrying times of course particularly for the people that live for the businesses that are
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trying to make a living and really with the bailout they're going to be expected to restructure and impose regulations into the banking systems the money is certainly not going to come for free and right now i'm just looking at the numbers the ibex the spanish force is now down six percent i'm going to read behind me you can see that see our banks is really investors demonstrating that they are not convinced by this bailout whatsoever are going to be monitoring the situation to him in about seven minutes for a. white overseeing katie then and i was mentioning moments ago spain is a used fourth largest economy but it does top the ranks when it comes to the number of unemployed and looking at twenty five percent of the population still struggling to find any way to get by some are turning to other countries in the hope of finding a better life but as artie's test for australia reports they may have to go a lot further than simply going to the neighboring eurozone states. twenty four point six million people are without jobs across the european union seventeen point
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four million of them in the euro zone 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 leaping in a street and then i never did before so it's really really nice happening you know i don't want to be sued for it from mean i don't want i don't i don't want to. be 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
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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 the tea and you are among the. euro crowds 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. spain and ireland a sportive e.u. imposed a stary even powerhouse germany has joined in the crunch a local newspaper reported seeing a leaked directive from the labor minutes. blocking basic unemployment benefits for people who moved to germany from some e.u.
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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 the individual people they are just a victimless everyone else from economic system in which they are living on the economic policies that many of those who don't have jobs turn to the state for unemployment benefits which may be reduced if it hasn't been already due to continue to steady across the e.u. a substantive budget cuts have also stunted economic growth and job creation it's this job seeker at exactly the same spot. state dependent and increasingly extreme cases living in desperation just are still here r t brussels and a just a couple of minutes until the r.t. world update for an hour moscow court has ruled to extend the pretrial detention of the members of a russian feminist punk rock group until january twenty third seen by the three women formed the band called pussy riot and they've been detained on charges of
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hooliganism they could face up to seven years in prison and the suspects were arrested after they broke into russia's biggest because feature will and performed an anti putin song in late february the incident provoked the wrath of the country's patriarch who condemned it as blasphemous while many people staged protests of both in support and against the actions of the group earlier this month two members of the trio went on hunger strike in response to what they called unfair treatment. all right so let's go to some of the news from around the world briefly the at least twelve are being killed thirty eight injured after a shooting at a movie premiere in the u.s. city of denver. gunmen rolled a tear gas canister into the cinema before opening fire during a late showing of the new batman film the police have confirmed they've arrested a suspect who was armed with a knife a rifle and handgun. libyan identified as a twenty four year old local any motives at this point. when there was doubt about
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. police reportedly fired tear gas in a violent crackdown on anti-government rallies in the capital of bahrain a report suggested the activists had begun blocking roads both in and out of the city the protest movement demanding political reform and an end to the ruling regime has been going on since last february has already seen more than fifty people killed in the government's been trying to suppress the opposition by banning rallies and arresting versts. have a look at this here a woman in china rather lucky to be alive a narrow escape here c.c.t.v. footage are showing the woman straying into the path of a cargo truck which smashed right into her scooter she reportedly failed to spot a red light although she's unsure how to be alive although moped has been crushed she now faces prosecution because this accident. well a taste of their own medicine not what online hackers could face off the british politicians security agencies to start retaliating tooth for tooth means
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a state like iran could find itself under a fresh software strike similar to that which infected the country's nuclear sites two years ago as r.t.s. laura smith explains such calls are only highlighting the u.k.'s inability to deal with cyber attacks on the domestic front if you can't beat them join them that seems to be britain's new attitude when it comes to dealing with cyber attacks a new report by the u.k.'s intelligence and security commission has concluded it's not enough to defend against cyber attacks additionally the military by agencies should be actively declaring cyber war on enemy state attack evidently is in their view the best form of defense although in this case they're calling it active defense. they're voicing that britain should be secretly hacking into enemy systems
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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 itself this despite the fact that the report says the communications agency g c h q believes eighty percent of cyber attacks all preventable basic measures like using security software and proper post. sober attacks of course have another name hacking it's illegal in most countries including the u.k. and britain has its fair share of hacking case is currently in the courts including that of autism suffer
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a gary mckinnon who'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. and off to. the section we go good to see you again microsoft loss is not exactly two words that are often in the same sentence so i know exactly where it is amazing actually because microsoft they've reported the first quarterly loss since going public in one thousand nine hundred eighty six now the last came after the computing giant took over the online ad service company a quantitative now microsoft paid three point six billion dollars to the company which after words failed to compete with google now despite the bad news the company's doing well in other areas its revenue rose four percent to eighteen billion dollars in the first quarter it's certainly not all. moving on to the u.s.
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stocks and will stay with that with wall street still the client with concerns remaining with europe's debt crisis of course and more to take a nosedive as well on the news that china will not relax properly control policies that news has been filtering through the markets today really european stocks are really feeling the pressure as you can see that we've got the footsie than i tense of is that down the down one and a half in negative territory we're sticking with the spanish bailout story as well as the details are being finalized right now the dance of common currency we'll be able to see how that is performing out there we are one twenty one fifty seven that's what it's all about that's what the seventeen members want to hold on to i was going to mix performance for the variable at the end of the trading day here in moscow is that brings us on to the x the markets will be able to see we did see losses the softer do they're quite drastic ones r.g.s. one point six down the my six one and the third capsule out so from russian
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orientated fox has reached fifty two million dollars this week despite the short term volatility so far more than seven hundred million dollars has been invested in russia focused so that is a story in the news wires right now we've also got all to look at as well because. that's part of the reason the russian markets are taking a bit of a beating we've got them continuing to fall from the nine week high and us on that speculation is that the recent one that. i came moving on that we're going to stick with russia for now we've got all the financial turmoil i've just been show you the market just now it really isn't capsulated the wall then it's becoming increasingly hard for people to find secure investment opportunities well according to report by citi group russia has all the ingredients to big money in one thousand and ten this guy has already tells. the euro zone crisis is three years in the making and there's no end in sight so working retail investors safely parked their money to
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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 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 the 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 and 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 the
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global companies with sales in russia. they're already i'll be focusing on the spain situation for business are very good things. are just more on the headlines and then will be shoveling aside for that of people of oil and quest talk.
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