u.s. is warning the latest fierce battles in syria will be a nail in president assad's coffin as we report on how youngsters have been increasingly drawn into the bloody conflict both warring sides. broke with the perversions members of a russian punk band go on trial facing seven years in jail for a protest and to make official the case that divided russian society. and another campaign promise goes unfulfilled as barack obama spends billions to prosecute the sopranos showing the u.s. government is as opaque as a our top stories this hour. online

on screen international news and comment live from moscow the u.s. military chief says the fighting in syria's largest city of aleppo will be ultimately a nail in president assad's coffin leon panetta is currently on a middle east tour promising to continue to push for assad's departure the commercial hub of aleppo has been the scene of fierce battles between syrian regime troops and antigovernment forces for more than a week now both parties view the fighting as decisive and likely to define the country's fate for the u.s. and its allies only condemning president assad for the civil conflict the standoff is getting more violent on both sides and it's on the booker reports it's now seeing more and more youngsters involved. young minds burning hearts bad blood while the syrian conflict often comes across as a power struggle of grown man on the ground many of those who fight and die are in

their late teens or early twenty's. this group of f.s.a. snipers operates in a deserted town forty kilometers southwest of homes twice a day to god to shell a syrian army checkpoint nearby omar's twenty three he left his family in dubai to join the uprising. to support the young fighters and to feel the pain and to experience what very experiencing on the ground and to help with the operation. while their weapons are becoming more sophisticated if you are good at handling them most say they want to become martyrs and their dads help recruit their younger brothers. but those they're aiming at are not much older at a military hospital in damascus a week long supply of coffins has been used in boston forty eight hours while the syrian authorities do not release an illiterate just so all indications are that

over the past two months it has increased dramatically here in damascus main military hospital ninety soldiers and officers died just the last two days. in the beginning of the uprising the soldiers were laid to rest through the sounds of a solemn march but if you days ago a military band was ambushed now the burials are conducted in silence and then. nineteen year old who is an army conscript was tasked with putting bodies into conference it was working in his uncle small shop and thank you for being drafted a year ago. no i'm not afraid to die i would do all that to be in the place of my fallen comrades and to become a martyr defending my country it's every man's duty. and now the nineteen year old lies in a coffin just a few steps away he was the victim of a sniper near homs but unlike many in syria his father and uncle are not calling for revenge. we just want peace. jesus all the prophets

called for peace we need it. martyrdom has long been glorified in muslim countries but it's also one of the reasons why the conflict in syria has been so protracted and sold deadly when the youngsters profess readiness to die for their cause they usually even more ready to kill for it it's an artsy damascus syria. and xander is constantly following the developments in the syrian standoff from inside the country she's sharing her first hand experience via twitter feed it's a sectarian violence is increasingly looming in the conflict with prominent people being killed apparently for their religious views analysis and images from the combat zone are also lined up by. the syrian opposition is ass's foreign allies to provide heavy weapons to fight president assad author and journalist afshin rattansi has told me that he thinks the flow of arms into the rebels hands may have dire international consequences. call for weapons that some from the syrian

national council have been making in abu dhabi this is this is getting worse and worse and the blowback for these countries that are aiding already aiding the islamist fighters is astounding i mean as far as i understand it parts of northern syria are already in control under the control of could they call it western kurdistan parts of northern syria but i think the turkish authorities will be happy with that for the blowback for the united states last time they went around doing this alarming these jihadists sending special forces and so forth we got september the eleventh two thousand and one and the attacks on the world trade center in the pentagon the white house while the saudis are obviously on the qataris are over sending in their arms across the border is interesting that saudi arabia is also having problems at home i don't think you'll see the mainstream media want to cover problems in saudi arabia that oil superpower in the oil rich east of the country they will no doubt get the arms and i noticed that the syrian foreign minister

being over in tehran and already the american press talking about syria's w m d and the chemical weapons i don't think this time around the west are going to intervene using their means they're going to they're going to go the proxy way they did in afghanistan. if you want your life for almost goes to the head the remaining president's plan osisko survives a second impeachment attempt despite a lot of the stores you want to and out of office for supporting rounds of haul just thirty counts shows that sometimes it's better to be lucky than good plus. plates off the less the country's most exposed to the klein and they we're all find out why in the business update slightly. if they shoot something inappropriate for public they can easily be. casualties of war ok. i wish she would have never happened but it has. been a war a t.v.

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wealthy british style. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max culture a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser reports. it was a music performance that splits russian society and could land three members of the female punk band in jail for up to seven years three feminist rockers from pussy

riot have. staging an antigovernment punk prayer in the capital's main cathedral and. ports public opinion is torn between those who called him and others who say they are blasphemous. but trial is now on the way for the three girls from the provocatively named pussy riot this comes after the high profile stunt back in february where they performed a protest in the center of quite the same cathedral that gained widespread recognition on the internet that it calls outrage amongst the religious community of a paycheck calling it blasphemy now they stand accused of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred all hostility other girls have pleaded not guilty to these charges because if that found guilty they could face up to seven years in prison. maintaining that they were protesting against the cool from their lives just leaders the support of the now president putin is cool amounts of control of the

sea here in russia it really has divided the population you've got people taking very radical stances both ways the religious community have reacted very very strongly we have patriarch kirill coming out some calling it blasphemy girls it has to be said not on used to this type of scandal they performed high profile stunts like this in the past there was video clips of the one who will take clips in the museum here most scary another of them kissing female police offices again they maintain this is political motivated this is that their artistic expression get a hair loss about the silliness of the stunts and a lot of the supporters saying that perhaps is misguided but the question is really now remain a how and indeed even if these go should be punished in this way the stuff. will promise to dmitri medvedev shares his opinion of pussy riot in an interview with the u.k. the times newspaper and you can find it on all don't come of the moment plus

discover nature's intervention in libya last year is impacting russia's stance on the crisis in syria as well as madrid its thoughts on the libby games and how sort she can prepare for twenty four people laughed in his interview with the times plus . empty seats in the. as members of the so-called a lympics family feeling the heat with organizers pulling security troops inside to fill the void to find out more online at r.t. dot com. in two thousand and eight barack obama made a promise that if he was elected president he would make the u.s. government more transparent it's now twenty twelve and he's prosecuted a record number of whistleblowers spending billions of dollars in the process that is going to report. keeping government secrets is expensive business

according to america's information security office last year the us spent around thirteen billion dollars on classifications that's twice as much as it spends ten years ago and more than the entire budget of the country's environmental protection agency for instance the us government keeps way too many secrets even even government entities responsible for evaluating these things like the office for government information oversight. these officers have may have done studies and said well you know a lot of this material doesn't need to be protected so it's in many ways it's a huge waste of money u.s. security agencies regularly fight in courts to keep volumes of decades old documents classified like the files on the cia's bay of pigs operation in cuba when the u.s. tried to overthrow fidel castro in one thousand nine hundred sixty one but the sharp increase in secrecy over the last decade is due to america's expanding

counterterrorism programs rather than on classified historical files the power that the national security state has acquired under president obama is greater than any time history. during the cold war period the government indicted only three people for disclosing classified information however the obama administration alone has prosecuted six government officials for leaking information to the press more than all other past administrations combined and thomas drake was one of them it was a senior executive of america's largest intelligence agency during the bush administration he blew the whistle on fraud and abuse with regards to the agency's secret surveillance program mr drake was charged under the espionage act watching what's happening now particular my case it's set it extraordinarily chilling message that anybody has a senior executive the government had a very high position to say. it sends an extraordinarily chilling message that if

you speak out if you speak up we're going to hammer you and we're going to hammer you hard because look what we did to mr drake but after a public outcry last year the government dropped charges against thomas drake in exchange for him pleading guilty to a misdemeanor misuse of a government computer speaking truth to power is very dangerous and his world the power elites. those in charge they don't like dirty linen being aired they don't like the skeletons in the closet being seen. and they not only do they object to it they decide to turn it into criminal activity national security germ they say the government always has and always will leak information deliberately to advance their own interests and it's not all the curves that they're after the primary looking at here is that the national security state is striking back

is becoming much war repressive in regard to its response to whistle blowing by you know individuals who. oppose policies that are being carried out or who oppose simply abuses of power the obama administration is spending record amounts to keep its secrets coming down hard on the kurds and yet thousands of classified documents are making their way onto the web the internet has taken leaks to a whole new level but it seems the more the internet reveals the more upset the government becomes about secrecy i'm going to check on in washington r.t. . and while some in the u.s. a busy trying to silence those speaking out others marginalize anyone who does not agree with mainstream politicians later this hour altie talks to dr howard friedman who argues the american political system disregards the interests of the poorest people. i can't under estimate the impact of money on the american

political system and in fact there's some interesting analysis done by political scientists that showed that people from the top third of the economic class have a very strong voice in government people in the middle third have a weak voice in government and it showed that people in the bottom third of the economic group united states have no measurable influence that's a real challenge in american democracy is to make sure that we really are in a world of one person one vote instead of dollar equals vote. would be so much brighter if you move the ballots from phones to pressure these.

screws don't talk t.v. don't. you know use it sit good laboratory to mccurry was able to build a new its most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a dollar amount anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only on the dog. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

romania's president has evolved a referendum on his impeachment for the second time during his rule could have been the latest e.u. leaders swept from office by the economic crisis and austerity measures demanded by the international creditors but a low turnout invalidated the poll allowing him to remain in power. has been following the story in book arrest. initial exit polls have come out on the remain a referendum vote on whether or not to impeach its suspended president of tryon of a cesspool while the numbers show that it failed to reach the a fifty percent plus one vote a requirement in order to validate that vote now sunday is a referendum as at the end of the three weeks of political bickering really between the sets of rights of assessed and his rival to left her of the prime minister

viktor on top of assessed to have the fused of proteas of us with us overstepping his powers as president denies any wrongdoing or that we have done anything on constitutional what's going to happen next is that the cesspool will be reinstated as president as soon as the final numbers of come out and if indeed it validates that referendum vote let's not forget his popularity has gone down a drastically ever since he introduced us there the measures in two thousand and ten as a result of i.m.f. a bad financial funding and this is certainly not the way to be easy in a country that is very divided politically very tired of any political bickering and again these two sides seem to show that they are not going to stop accusing the other side of any wrong to we were already hearing some scandals coming out again coming from want to side and they will have to figure out a way to work together you have assessed before to still maintaining positions as president and prime minister what romania nice now really is political stability especially for syria counterparts who are watching this very closely insisting that

the country find a way to stabilize the situation and to exercise the prophecy the rule of law is still will be a checks and balances in all the institutions. let's have a look at some of the stories making headlines around the world in a day before the business up day with marina hundreds of people again protesting against the recent fatal police shooting is in anaheim california which of the tree people dead two hundred demonstrators right outside the city's police headquarters one hundred of this more sun at least on the main thoroughfare at least people were arrested. nine people have been killed in poland after a train smashed into a minibus the vehicle apparently drove into or onto an unguarded crossing and was carried thirty meters down the track ten people were said to have been packed into the six seater bus and identities of the victims hasn't haven't been released but is thought they were ukrainian mineworkers is the latest in a series of road accidents in poland which has claimed more than two hundred lives

this summer alone. also one of the u.s. republican presidential candidate mitt romney is continuing to make headlines on his world tour after appearing to criticize the london olympics he's now in israel where he referred to the disputed city of jerusalem as the country's capital it was a claim jewish culture is more advanced than palestinian is provoke the wrath of palestinian officials who condemned his statements as racist and unacceptable despite this is towards reported again his campaign a million dollars in donations. was promised time for a business update now marina's their first marine of the u.k. you might be in trouble for what i understand tell us more about learn high bell well basically that's because the economy there is quite exposed to the viewers on everything that's happening there and all this is according to maple consultants and they created this map where they show which are the safest and they are unsafe first nations in the employer about see they're the ones on the red are the most

unsafe nations and the top four extremely vulnerable countries are the czech republic hungary poland and most of all as i said in play and the study blames this heavy reliance on exports to the continent and europe is banking system all fast growing major economies like russia are also called higher risk now this gus the session earlier of nick parsons from national australia bank and first i asked him whether countries then do anything to minimize those risks. countries outside the eurozone can indeed seek to protect themselves they can cut interest rates they can print money in the case of countries like switzerland they can effectively put a floor on their exchange rate so they can seek to protect themselves against disruptive capital flows they can seek to protect themselves against a collapsing trade but all this is really seeking to minimize damage rather than avoid it why do you think the breaks in the african countries are also high risk i looked at the reports russia was ranked number fifty one hundred sixty nine and and

that's really not what you'd classify is the highest risk so i think some of the spin that was put out was perhaps a little misleading an old bearded ball comforting for you guys over there. but i say with this is that or is reading service believes that banking systems of russia and the c.i.s. are in little danger of being hit hard from the eurozone debt crisis and that's because they're right lengths with european banks are limited however the agency adds that russian and c.i.s. banking systems could suffer if the global economic slowdown weighs on oil and commodity prices. that's a look at international markets europe is closed for trading and that finished the session the higher we have both the forty and the bags out of over one percent and that's on hopes that the brussels will provide that economic stimulus later on this week it's only in spain where among the top gators of the day if we move on and take a look at exchange rates the euro is the reverse in last week's gains against the

us dollar when it comes to the ruble when there's a mixed game against the euro to the greenback and move on inside look at how the russian markets perform that often miss them and the emu trickle down here on the rosters and also higher crude prices help of course. and m i six and then the day over one for size and the allied with wash i want to mention one company in particular me when the about the four russian billionaires who all in one half of the venture have voted against b.p.'s a billion dollar dividend their representative said quote while government remains strained a payment now is. this comes over of course the russian co-owners will sell their stake in the company to roles that in which case b.p. will reverses this isn't some leave the consortium. now moving on with the markets us straight on right now and what we're seeing on wall street it started off well mild gains then the one plant and now it's slipped into negative territory and that's because investors are higher than in making big moves ahead of the central

banks later on this week and i want to talk about luxury brands because shares in this industry are growing and that's despite the financial turmoil that we see in the around the world of course so we sent our very own kitty pilgrim to find out why. the global financial crisis is not a topic people shopping around this part of town are particularly worried about i'm here in moscow on one of the most exclusive stories i'm talking fabulous people designer labels and of course fat wallets as well and this is the exact market savvy investors are tapping into right now trying to make fast cash out of people that love to spend it well a perfect example of this in recent years would be michael kors is a high end fashion house they've been producing clothes for over thirty years now based in hong kong announcing fragrances and accessories as well now in a bloomberg. for the best performing i.p.o.

and they were actually placed at number one now they came out with their initial public offering on the fourteenth of december last year and it's now trading at y.c. amounts as far as asian companies are concerned seven of the maze up the top ten of the top five performance companies that's really is people in asia they're running more money and generally have more disposable income to go shopping and that's really in spite of slowing growth in china and the european debt crisis so it seems as though since he's coming in and. out a luxury goods well at least for the life of the people in places like this said no way. this is what i have revealed this year ok thanks a lot more from you in the next that submarine with all of the just business made headlines in just a few minutes for you stay with us this is all too in moscow. world's

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