russian airlines. more than one hundred killed and many others wounded in iraq as militants stage a nationwide offensive just days after al qaeda vowed a violent come back. from the terrorist group also deepens its roots next door in syria with a war torn state now under international scrutiny over what might happen to its chemical weapons. plus the poll could prove a c. social networks have complied with a round of thousand requests to hand over personal data this year alone despite use of setting their info to confidential. hello very good evening from kevin oh in here of moscow where of you're watching us around the world you're very welcome this is our top story then this hour a wave of terror in iraq attacks explosions and suicide bombings have killed at

least one hundred seven people across the country and left near three hundred wounded the same really coordinated assault turned today into the bloodiest episode in iraq since u.s. troops left the country government officials police and army units appeared to have been the primary targets of the onslaught the attacks also came days after al qaeda is new leader in the country laid out all day sure supplants for the terrorist cell there his artie's middle east correspondent paula slipped. this is the most deadly attack in at least to go in iraq it follows a day yesterday that saw some seventeen people killed now we're hearing from a security personnel spokesperson that the target of these attacks is predominantly security and iraqi police it comes just days off to a warning by the leader of al qaeda in iraq abu bakar al bug i.v. said he would be retaking strongholds that had been those of al qaida he would be pushing out the united states and its allies in an audio recording that was posted

online he said and i'm quoting and he was referring here to the united states you will see which i have been at the heart of your country since war has only just begun now these latest developments in iraq are parallel to what we're seeing unfolding in syria but it is interesting that the mainstream media isn't largely choosing not to report on iraq to the extent that it is it is reporting on developments in syria so the questions being asked of firstly why is iraq not in the headlines to the extent that there really is and secondly when you look at the talk currently on the table about whether or not there should be any kind of interference any kind of whiston outside interference in syria it simply raises abalos particularly if we look at what has happened in iraq where there was an occupation for decades today in iraq we see chaos we see constance triumph we see a death toll that is constantly on the increase and concern is being raised whether or not the same kind of scenario might eventually play out in syria. on today's

kirshner right jim brann from the stop the war coalition says it's all part of a wider post struggle. one way or another we're talking about proxies when we talk about al qaeda in iraq or when you talk about this man yesterday making his statement i think we have to see it and see them as a proxy for what we call the saudi interest because there is this this great battle being fought. for control and influence and then one side stands saudi arabia in general. on the other side stand iran to present the united states as being some neutral part parties somebody without real interest would be quite wrong clearly the united states hide its interest in iraq has its interest in iraq and one my or another is playing them out and i assured him that the united states would want a situation in iraq which was relatively stable but not out of control which was

factionalized which minimized the rayney an influence for example but they certainly wouldn't want a limb and ate the problem because that would reduce their boggling. the input of the swathe of terror in iraq will be felt widely international relations professor mark ullman from bill kent university in turkey says it bodes badly for the whole region. the situation until two thousand and three of course was that saddam hussein had tight control of the country afterwards it was the chaos in space that these kinds of terrorist groups to oppose the american presence there is a danger that the kind of bloody chaos that. will come back and this could also spread across a great present from the mediterranean coast of syria towards iran and. so we have a very unstable situation and it seems to me that the western states playing with fire in that we saw you know small scale who i think an astounding one hundred

eighty s. response of the radical rebellion would seem to subscribe to the interest of michael now in a much bigger area with much more thoughtful source it seems to me the danger of a very severe disintegration or the very least fire of some of these civil wars with huge costs for survival in a way we in the west and in the wider world of what's happening in the arab world can come across and if troops but i'm afraid a great you know it is really a breath or really just domination between sunni fundamentalists against shiites. his influence has been felt beyond the iraqi border in neighboring syria to german intelligence apparently claims the total groups behind almost one hundred attacks though since the beginning of the year al-qaeda fighters have believed to be working alongside syria's armed opposition which is now putting all its air for the decision control of the country's largest cities the rebels failed attempt to take damascus the commercial hub of aleppo now the brunt of the conflict in opposition clashes have been going on there for several days covering the side of the story of

sana boy. art he was one of the few if not the only foreign crew that was able to travel to aleppo last in three months ago and from what we've seen there i can tell you that aleppo is a very peculiar case for this whole syrian struggle no where you can see the kind of virgin's of the genuine democratic movement and pure criminal activity so vividly as in on one hand aleppo is home to a major university so a lot of people you meet there are liberally minded intellectuals they oftentimes disagree with the policies of bashar assad and many of them call on him to step down but at the same time they strongly object the use of kalashnikovs who are any political games they don't want democracy to be delivered through these very bloody conflict through this very bloody struggle on the other hand aleppo is home to many

militia groups this is probably because it's far more closer to the north and to the turkish border that is used to supply all those arms and in the letter you hear a lot of stories a lot of cases of industrial terrorism where shops and factories were sat on fire simply because their owners your fused to pay the so-called revolutionary tax that the free syrian army attempted to impose on local businesses there are also a lot of cases of kidnappings and those kidnappings are carried out not so much for politico. well aims are goals but rather simply for ransom so a lever is indeed a very important strategic location for both the army and the opposition and the battle for aleppo will be very important in determining the balance of power in the distribution of forces in these seventeen month long syrian conflict and we are of course covering every twist and turn in it our correspondents on the ground in syria doing their utmost to tell you what's really going on in the conflict

conflict on country direct through twitter exam to point to one of our team is in damascus she says people are returning to the city after security forces kicked rebels from key districts and traffic she's saying is returning to the road right now from washington is there as well she's in a refugee camp on the syrian lebanese border but she says only those with views are getting desperately needed help with also people cross development don't forget everything is going on in syria on artie's main twitter feed. israel says it's prepared to deal with syria's chemical arsenal if it falls into hezbollah's hands should a regime collapse despite possessing such weapons to muskets insists it will only use them if there is a foreign attack some regional experts though think it's more dangerous of israel helps the syrian rebels to obtain the stockpile. i think that the syrians are moving caches of of weapons of a conventional or an unconventional nature within syria that's their own

prerogative of a sovereign state they have their rights and the prerogative of moving their weapons were ever they want at the same time if that's what their argument is as defending lebanon but then again let's see who is supporting the salafi fundamentalists in syria who is supporting the. fundamentalists who are being smuggled smuggled into syria i think it's clear that g.c.c. and turkey are are doing that so of there's a danger of such weapons falling into the hands of these people then they're the culprit the would be exactly the alias and the united states well the differences of approach in how to cue the crisis in syria politics came up at a meeting between the russian attalia leaders in the city of sochi without his thomas. two world leaders are coming to the table and discussing their thoughts on how to handle the syrian crisis illustrating just how important this topic is and

how it's on the minds of the leaders of the global community. prime minister monti of italy saying that syria should look to lebanon as an example stating that their system has worked really well for them and basically what they put in place is a system that allows for all aspects of society to have a representative government saying that that is a good example for syria to use now president putin has not dismissed nor endorsed this idea listen to what he had to say on the subject i'm assured first of all there must be a complete or total pilots nicely and they both sides must come to the negotiation table where they would decide on the country's future and that future must not be decided by a military defeat or you can ignore the victory of one side or the other. and compromise. president putin going on to say also that an unconstitutional overthrow of the regime in syria will lead to a protracted civil war something that russia does not want and is trying to avoid

and it would lead to a repeat of the bloody civil war that is happening in the bloody violence that is in afghanistan also that all sides need to come to the table and make an effort to engage in dialogue and you also said that it is possible for cooperation on the subject of syria pointing to the extension of the u.n. mission as. an example saying that this is how people have already worked together to try and resolve the crisis in syria so right now on the minds of international leaders trying to come up with their ideas how to resolve the syrian conflict. sean thomas there much more to come this hour on r.t. including europe's furious farmers they say someone's milking the system and they're not seeing a drop of the things we report on why they're making a splash outside the e.u. part of their exude. israel's lax treatment of its own struggling citizen this is seems some horrific acts of protest lately to people set themselves on fire within

just a week have made from physicians for human rights points out that the government's increasing funding settlement expansion at the expense of spending on society. it is an issue of priority but it also in this issue of ideology the whole issue i'm not saying security is a non issue it is an issue and we've seen this as an example what happened lately in the attack on israelis it's not saying that the palestinian israeli conflict or iran or syria is not an issue but there are also domestic issues and while if you take health for an example while the public expenditure on health has been gone down for the past three decades and has put israel in the lowest one of the lowest place compared to other developed countries i mean public that spends public expenditure is very low in israel as compared to other countries there is vestments in settlements there is just

a recent survey saying that. expenditure on settlements on welfare in x. and settlements has been five times the amount that the expenditure on welfare inside the green line so it is a matter of priorities it is a matter of ideology and the whole domestic issue has been. has no. not been dealt with for years israel's push for ever expanding settlements in the west bugs also the subject to devote to know how to use force when cross talk show is on the very next day. i am palestinian my parents were born there my grandparents are buried there my great grandparents are buried there i would like you to tell me why you a new york born white jewish man with no apparent. personal family ties beginning with your parents and going for why do you feel you

have more rights than i do to live in that land or my parents who can't even step foot there. just answer that question. and we have an answer just over an hour's time millions of us to disassociate networks like facebook and twitter every day to share our lives with friends and family but what you might not know is that you could be giving away your personal data to governments and as art has been important explains no privacy settings can bar the authorities prying eyes. in the land of social media users tweet tag friends upload and share information at any given moment in the land of the free what americans post online can and will be used against them. according to twitter of the nearly twelve hundred government requests for user data filed in

the first half of this year nearly eighty percent came from the us government the micro message company says it complied with seventy five percent of user data washington requested social media in general twitter and facebook being prime examples of that are a part of an ever increasingly invasive police state in the united states it's it's not just about surveillance and about tracking and monitoring this is the way in which they're consolidating control in the past year u.s. judges have forced twitter to turn over private or deleted data on users as part of investigations related to wiki leaks or occupy wall street. the ruling according to reports allows prosecutors access to tweets and additional information stored by twitter including the e-mail and ip address of a user it's more about more than just invasion of privacy it's about destroying the concept of privacy online at

a recent conference called hackers on planet earth former national security agent william binney detailed the demise of u.s. privacy protection which he says has been carried out by washington for more than a decade it must have been right for. more than a week after. they decided to begin to spy on you when there's been the spent thirty seven years working for the n.s.a. before resigning to blow the whistle on what he calls the creation of an orwellian state. or here is that we see everything. at the height of his career binney served as technical director for n.s.a. as m. group a branch that was reportedly responsible for eavesdropping on the world today he estimates that the n.s.a. has secretly compiled and stored more than twenty trillion files of e-mails phone

calls and other data belonging to u.s. citizens when it comes to social media he says even users with the strictest security settings are not protected the reality of that is that that's not private at all if the companies don't have the government doesn't have some either of them have it or they share with the unobstructed sharing of information is what's made half a billion people flock to social media sites like twitter but missing from the terms of agreement is the monitoring that can be taking place as citizens are bursting their short messages into the virtual world. r.t. new york. for lunch not at our tea dot com we're reporting about the rage against police over a california killing where officers gunned down a twenty four year old resident his neighbors in march and they were hit with tear gas and police dogs said i want to see more pictures we've got it on our website of what we have here what tell you it's a mix of a rat hearts. that's been grown on the silicon it's the world's first artificial

jellyfish we tell you why this creepy creature could save lives. this is r.t. europe stary farmers are feeling the squeeze they say big business is forcing milk prices down to below the cost of producing it and they say they're for getting nowhere with the peas so they accuse of following the corporate herd is our europe correspondent test. milk farmers have sprayed their fields with millions of readers of milk in protest stormed any peace in strasbourg. that year after year they feel sometimes their voices are not heard when those policies are

to the disadvantage and therefore they feel they have no choice but to take their voices all the way to brussels. quite literally as hundreds of farmers from across europe tractors and. tested against dropping milk prices and were lobbying lawmakers to take their interests into account in reforming policy yeah that's probably a supermarket that. saying. the price will be it's the big supermarket chains one day banking and energy giants the next day the critics say those who end up getting their way the end are almost always the big guys with deep pockets commission as a whole consults much more with big corporate interests. than with all other kinds of interests in society it leads to very unbalanced decisions that are not serving

the public interest in a recent report found that in the e.u. commission straight enterprise department expert groups that give crucial policy shaping advice are made up mainly of corporate representatives while farmers for example have a tiny zero point one percent share of the voice. and hope this adds a bit of volume to their cause in the mocker see it's always a good idea. whatever a proposal you have to come to brussels and to organize a protest if you if you do it of course in a peaceful way but instead the sign of democratic health just one of the biggest corporate lobbies in the e.u. finds no fault in business as usual a decision or. legislation or policy which is sort of biased black or white into either totally environmental or totally corporate interests not exist yet these people would certainly disagree they say in the end it's hardly ever the people who

persistently take to the streets that run the real show. does or so your r.t. brussels and. more news making headlines right now around the world thousands of marched through the mexican capital in protest of the country's presidential election results. one with just over thirty eight percent but his rivals accuse him of buying votes runner up refuses then to accept the official result is taking legal action he also played video coverage was heavily slanted towards pena nieto. forest fires places in northeast spain of now killed four and left twenty four others injured a frenchman and his teenage daughter died yesterday when they tried to scale down a cliff and into the sea the escape the flames in the catalonia region they were separated from other tourists running from the inferno in a coastal town of the border for those fires now cover an area almost twice the size of manhattan and the worst for more than twenty years. of loss to the chinese

consulate in southern pakistan has injured at least two people an explosion was planted on a motorbike parked near the building no word yet admitted the attack on saturday ten died and sixteen were injured when a suicide bomber struck at a military compound in the northwest. the mass flow across china has now killed ninety five people and wounded forty five others since the rental rain started on friday drownings housing collapses electrocutions of course most of the deaths but for beijing alone has suffered one and a half billion dollars worth of damage. twenty two and a half minutes past ten at night moscow time let's go straight down the list in the us is the seizure of daniel high company shares taking a real battering today billions of dollars last year with emerging markets major retreat result is minute of course is that stock exchange headquarters she says traders were under fire from all sides today. i'm sure that the traders sitting in the r.t.s. offices right behind me are pulling out their hair because the russian markets have

dropped with a vengeance and what's more the russian currency took a beating as well but the situation isn't the only bad here it's pretty much everywhere asian markets closed in the red europe followed suit in the e.u. was dropped over two percent in just the first of war minutes all right but when it comes to russia rapidly declining oil prices as well as a capital outflow of eighty one million dollars. are the helping matters but the main problem remains in europe its tally and spanish stocks plummeted in fact in the us as sovereign born the old star rockets at one of comes to italy trading in some major italian banks was suspended for about an hour because of such steep drop all this comes over every new three years about the euro zone valencia said it would seek financial aid and this is the second region in spain to say that it might have to do the same and this was announced over the weekend and also greece is back in the spotlight after reports in germany suggest that the international

monetary fund is set to stop eight payments to the country just seems one below after another and of course we all know that when it comes to markets it's domingo and five and in this case it seems it's going from bad to worse let's check those markets because wall street's full legal news spain is gearing up for a full bailout also but company news mcconnell says bunnings fellow the stronger dollar the most into months on the ruble today is a multi-year lows against. floods as another region says it's run out of money two dollars on monday sending more scope almost five percent russia also reports a couple of outflows for months in a row but the world's super rich seem immune to it all thanks to thirty two trillion dollars stashed away in offshore accounts as a new report that's the size of the u.s. and china's economy is coming. and it means on pay taxes of two hundred eighty billion john christensen from texas just dismissed work which published the report

explains some of that money actually did return to these countries now some cases it does but it comes back dressed up as foreign direct investment with all the tax breaks that it. comes with foreign direct investment this is a process known as round trip being which happens a lot of many countries like brazil india a lot of the indian and brazilian campbell has moved offshore tax havens and comes disguised by companies so it's not clear that the wells originated from india or brazil first place. but certainly a very large proportion of this capital doesn't come back into productive investment much of it goes around chasing speculative investment on the equity markets of the securities markets to the commodity markets and sometimes real estate markets in europe and north america so a lot of this capital doesn't actually getting gauged in productive activity if it's just chasing rental incomes what economists call if you see even down to kind

of buying british football team. was sure to fall and food prices are shooting up corn and soybean prices hit record highs on droughts in the states alone but the organization for economic cooperation and development says expensive food is here to stay the course the food will drop twenty percent over the next decade on this recall for farmers to get to us from existing fields more. we're talking about the future of food so why precisely why i decided to come to a chicken farm but if you want an insight into the future of food in the coming decade you could do a lot worse and come to a place like this the o.e.c.d. and the food and agriculture organization have published an outlook of the future of the world food market in the next ten years the main themes of that report supply and demand. sounds boring but both of those undergo major changes first of all demand the world's population is still increasing combine that with the vast

increases in wealth in the developing world people across asia and elsewhere want more food and more meat in their diets because they can afford it that's where chicken comes in it's easy to produce involve quantities and a lot of efficiency has gone into it that means that it's going to make up a lot more of people's diets up to perhaps thirty percent along with other food sources that people want more of going on to supply there simply isn't enough land in the world anymore that means people are going to have to increase productivity on the land that already exists the overall conclusions of the reports are that the demand for higher quality food more meat or things in people's diets means that it's simply going to have to get more expensive. but not the microphone on the. show you said thank you but. now coming out of

europe struggle to embrace multiculturalism why it's failing to recover the main headlines from moscow this monday evening with me. thank. you well for the. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

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