it's a marriage that president obama that paranoid authorized secret support for the syrian rebels and their violent drive to oust president. also video was rooms where would show executions pro-us of supporters by syrian rebel fighters side of the war often ignored by the foreign media plus. they would scream. in the most brutal way. julian assange his mother says the u.s. threatened her son an exclusive interview door where she met the country's president as part of the whistleblowers asylum plea.

six pm in the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina joshie welcome to the program u.s. president barack obama apparently authorized covert support for the syrian rebels to help them oust president reports of a secret order allowing the backing of the cia and other agencies follow washington's warning that the current finding in syria will be and nail and its cost and the syria issue came into focus at a meeting between president putin and the prime minister of washington's closest ally great britain well let's talk now to laura smith has been following the talks and along the coast here laura now russia and britain we know are poles apart over how the syrian conflict should be resolved surely these revelations about covert u.s. support of one side in the standoff won't help overcome those divisions. yeah and

it was quite simple and this came to light about obama having. to authorize secret kind of cia an agency support for. rebels who are trying to oust president assad in syria but that came to light just before the meeting between precision and cameron it went to that meeting any easier tool of course what obama's all represents is foreign intervention in syria and it is taking sides in syria and those are two things that president putin as we know is very opposed to of course the u.k. and russia really represents the polar opposite in the two sides of this argument the u.k. represents a sort of much as the u.s. does a move towards the u.n. security council resolutions taking sides against president assad's trying to force president assad to step down whereas on the on the completely other side of the equation russia represents a drive towards diplomacy and a not taking of sides in this in this issue and of course this is not the only

issue opponent which russia and britain all poles apart but it is certainly the most important issue at the moment and we understand in fact that as it's two two other issues that british relations have had in the past this is now hampering economic relations with the two between the two countries which might go some way towards solving the problem because as we all know money talks in a way that politics potentially doesn't we have had all sorts of misunderstandings and misinterpretations as this process has moved forward the last time the two leaders met cameron came away from the meeting making an announcement that putin had changed his mind on asking on forcing president assad to step down in syria he said that putin now fully supported the idea of getting us out to step down whether that was sort of wishful thinking or whether it was lost in translation is not clear but of course the russian side then came out and said that that wasn't the

case at all and had not changed his stance he still wanted to try to work this out through diplomacy and of course then we saw russia's most recent the. telling of a u.n. security council resolution on syria which cameron in the wake of calls inexcusable and indefensible so this is really a problem that's not going away and today's meeting between the two leaders doesn't seem to solve did either they came out afterwards and said they had found common ground on what they want to happen so they both want to see an end to violence in return of stability in syria but there seems to still be no common ground whatsoever on how to reach that point and of course with these opposing views in these constant sort of to ing and fro ing of opinions and meetings it is a worry that diplomacy as a part of solving the syria conflict may be slowly dying as this process takes place. all right laura thanks very much indeed for bringing us more on the meeting between russian president vladimir putin and you case prime minister david cameron

florists misreporting there. anti-war activist brian backer says america's strategy on syria has never been to words diplomacy. well the united states military and intelligence services are as we know now from the u.s. government admission coordinating through turkey through a u.s. military airbase these are all you know turkey is a nato country the military operations for this so-called free syrian army these syrian so-called revolutionaries and it's clear now that this is not a shift in terms of u.s. strategy it doesn't represent any kind of alteration all that it does is reveal that the diplomacy of this so-called diplomacy the so-called looking for a negotiated settlement is a fraud that the diplomacy is in fact a form of perjury that the reality is that the u.s. government the obama administration with the pentagon and the cia i've been next to coordinating the military operations to overthrow

a sovereign government in syria all right now r.t. dot com if you think the camera never lies thank again take a close look at this picture in an austrian newspaper now see how it compares to the original reports on the european media's digital deception in the syrian conflict. what is often ignored by leading foreign media when it comes to covering the syrian conflict is the brutal tactics employed by some armed rebel groups the horrific video has surfaced revealing the other side of the syrian conflict all the food you are now seeing purports to show the cold blooded execution of us its supporters by syrian rebels several man stripped of soma clothes and bleeding are seen being forced by a wall and gunmen who opened fire journalist pepe escobar has done his own research to the images and says what incidents like this there's no end in sight to the

syrian crisis. i received this video as well from a source in arabica that day and i asked for its resolution this it was a very classy this is a very important planning nourse and all it will and some of them there were executed in cold blood this is what this two. minute video shows in fact this is an extended when they have like twenty thousand brothers sisters the extended family clan tribe you know so this means that all these people each stead of being recruited to the opposition now they will be fighting the opposition because they are being executed in cold lot and this explains among other things why christians all over syria now are taking up arms to defend themselves go because they know that if there is a falls assad cold rolled by sunni hard core elements of the including salafi jihad just this is what's going to happen they're going to be only protected minorities and at the moment they are protected minority to some of the assad government. now

the syrian conflict has left hundreds of thousands of people displaced many having for self or across the borders into neighboring countries as my youth and often our reports even in the refugee camps politics overshadows basic human values. a conflict of contrast and contradictions freedom fighters with guns in their hands and the kind of support calls for jihad those claiming to want to stop the violence in the country continue providing the warring sides with more weapons and now a supposedly peaceful humanitarian mission is being used as a breeding ground for hatred and division. plane refugees may have felt their skate through war but it seems the conflict has other plans for them the words of muslims are in the northern lebanon is known for being strongly opposed to both its own government and the syrian regime seen for much tension for years especially after the death in custody of

a local man accused of being part of al qaida today it's home to many islamic organizations and many are still believed to have ties with a terrorist organization situated right on the syria lebanon border the border is over there it's where many syrians fleeing the cares at home had a comparatively safe haven one which provides shelter for some but by no means all . a group of islamic n.g.o.s is called in eighteen the humanitarian mission here their mercy carries a subtle message the boxes bear would look to the swords of the muslim brotherhood hold that we have killed and here's what has to be enough for a month for one family young girls here is rice crops. dry milk the man in charge is a selfie a radical sunni group has hearing to fundamentalist islam and not tolerating moderate forms of the religion. colleague says anyone is welcome to leave just so long as they share in his one sided beliefs. we will not accept anybody who

supports such a criminal regime maybe i will try to talk to them and convince them not to be on the bad side if they accept was there more than welcome or if not last until even. the. no surprise therefore we didn't find a single assad supporter here newly arrived refugees most of whom are families with small children sleep on classroom floors and a given just basic creations but empty stomachs are only helping to nourish and sentiments eloquent in the middle additional hope that i would join the free syrian army if only i had a chance but they don't need me i'm not in the military and if i have an opportunity to kill assad with my bare hands i won't hesitate you know. what's on the surface look like helpless refugees in an instant can turn into ardent revolutionaries. i wish i'm with the free syrian army to fight against assad no

matter what will get him i will not accept him to leave the country will see cutthroats and all terrible things and when we finish with him we'll go and take those and back in his regime we all know them very well that will burst sobs wife who's from homs like me i wish the kids i chopped into tiny pieces. these people at their most desperate take given the helping hand that they need and it's one that will always be there although we strings attached as long as people are happy to tell you who the n.t.'s sideline they will be to ready cool groups happy to feed them they still hold the guns that a powerful in this war. from northern lebanon and more updates on the situation in syria are available from our team on twitter and we'll bring you the firsthand experience of our crew on the ground as well as reactions analysis and images so it's our team members or calm.

now anti-government activists have been arrested in the united arab emirates for what the authorities call us threats to the state security but human rights groups say the response is draconian political studies professor steven zuma says the opposition movement is simply the public's desire for more input and they're close . so these are very good mystic local activists who who are moderate islamists who want a greater sense of fairness and equity within society they are among three dozen dissidents who've been arrested in the past couple months some people sometimes to jail not for calling for the overthrow of the government or anything or but simply who are allowing the partially elected advisory assembly to have

a little more power than it does currently so it just seems like you know another sad chapter and the crackdown against any dissent in the under that authoritarian regime by and large remains there definitely of the far cheering regime if you stream the question again and they could use against foreign i guess work but most fundamentally no really going by the people themselves the most political pluralism or office with two parties most moves for people to express their grievances a matter how rich you are. sooner or we're going to see hey we want some input about the direction of our country on the frontline of the government crackdown across the gulf is not the only job one of the only activists has made his name known as a national studies professor of a jaipur shah believes activists like her job should be traced. you have to really salute people like rajab who have been fighting in bahrain most of his life he is

the head of the bahrain center for human rights a very important person in the u.a.e. there is a university of sharia law professor i am of yusuf i mean people like this have to be applauded because there is the flag of democracy there is the flag of reform in the region we have seen protests being crushed in these various emirates in saudi arabia recently the cleric nimer limit was beaten and arrested once more to people at least have been killed by reason of course the same thing is going to nearing and in u.e. over the last month about fifty people have been arrested about nine or ten just in the last couple of days but yes this is been a concerted crackdown by the u.a.e. regime but they have been putting pressure on the political reformers who have been

at work not since last year but since two thousand and three to create greet their reform greater democracy in the entirety of the united arab emirates. well coming up in the program here in our team the u.s. continues to twist iran's arms perfect timing for a media storm to surround the republic as washington turns its focus from iraq to iran expecting it to pay off for nine eleven along with al qaeda and the taliban. markets across the globe continue to plummet as the so-called super mario drugged out of the c b fails to impress investors with any kind of new measures to salvage the euro join me in ten minutes time i'll tell you. join us and his mother has matadors leader as her son pleads for asylum there president correa said the decision won't be influenced by pressure from any country cristina songe talked to our to drawing her visit telling us that u.s.

politicians are still gunning for revenge over something and calling for her son's execution the full interviews later this hour here so what to expect. from the beginning. from the u.s. from politicians and from. the news coming. they were screaming out. in the most brutal way. they seem to be. too tough on how they would feel like. calling out the beautiful this is moving inside to move against myself and still in the last few weeks. there's been folks who see this in total because folks these who paid the balance who was screaming at julian's execution this is somebody who is not the right one and has done nothing more than any good in this to go to the school to get through to the point is what do we want for. the whistleblower has

been holed up in ecuador's embassy in london for over six weeks now the decision on the sounders asylum request is expected in ten days he's wanted in sweden over sex crime allegations bubbly. they're just a pretext to hand him over to the u.s. to face trial over the massive leak of secret files scott horton from harper's magazine says even if he gets asylum he won't be out of the woods. to me it's hard to understand how the ecuadorians are going to play this about even if they decide to grant his request for asylum that doesn't mean he would be able to a walk out of the embassy go to heathrow and fly to ecuador he would still be held there you don't need be able to transfer out with some sort of consent from the u.k. government and i don't think that will be forthcoming without some sort of agreement from the swedish government so it's diplomatically very very thorny and setting up a scenario in which julian the songe may be

a guest in close quarters in the ecuadorian embassy for many years the question with australia is one that's been in the background for many many years in fact if you look through the history of the war on terror you find a number of australian citizens who were seized by the united states who were mistreated some tortured some held in possible conditions in guantanamo and the australian government was remarkably quiet about all of this not really not only not intervening but sometimes attacking their own citizens and i think what's going on there is frankly a rather surprising attitude on the part of the australian government towards the united states has been seek to challenge the us over any issue. but over again join us on his groundbreaking interview series is still available for you to watch at our q dot com also online the teddy bear tara for valor the fur is an author of

these cuddly commandos were air drop into the secretive country causing the presidents of the sad military chiefs. and while the people of greece tighten their belts to the extreme the country's olympic delegation spends big money at an exclusive club in london to tell you why. u.s. congress has approved new sanctions against iran targeting the country's energy sector it's coincided with a federal job to order into iran to pay part of a six billion dollars compensation package for supposedly aiding the nine eleven attacks along with the taliban and has the law since it's certain no one's going to pay up the judgments raising questions over how the country links justice with

politics as a guide as to count now explains. the whole trial is considered a symbolic move nobody's actually hoping to collect those penalties you ran from lee denies any such accusations has blogged the same moral was soon after nine eleven has been laws leader described as quote an entity trapped in medieval ages and bent on killing innocent muslims so they're not exactly best friends and the nine eleven commission back in the day also stated that quote we have found no evidence that iran or hezbollah was aware of the planning for what later became the nine eleven attack and of quote but the fact that now the u.s. justice system hold partly responsible for nine eleven is most interesting both in terms of timing and historical context back in two thousand and three as the u.s. waged war against iraq another u.s. federal judge ruled that iraq must pay for nine eleven attacks very similar ruling so have you have this clear flashback when you look at the headlines from may two

thousand and three course the allegations that saddam hussein was doing business with al qaida proved to be bogus but that didn't matter at the time having solid evidence didn't matter at the time tensions skyrocketed on false grounds with regards to iran the timing is of importance as far as its nuclear program the obama administration says they want diplomacy and negotiations to work with the most recent ruling holding the brand responsible partly responsible for nine eleven one can argue there may never be any easing the sanctions or sanctions even if you want to make small things on these nuclear program. more of the world's news for you this hour the spanish police have arrested three suspected al qaida members who were planning an attack and you were two of the man had lived in russia's chechen republic during a wave of terror attacks there while the other man is of turkish descent all are believed to have been trained in pakistan media reports in spain say the man

possessed explosives and poisons. the secretary of state hillary clinton is in uganda's capital part of her africa tour is currently battling al break of the deadly ebola virus which has so far killed sixteen people nationwide and u.s. officials admit the seven nation visit is largely a push to prevent china's growing influence in the continent clinton's next stop is south sudan has vast oil industry appearance halley chinese investment. slow moving typhoon moving through a. taiwan killing at least seven people surveillance video showed one man tragically fall to his death when a road collapsed burying him in rubble rental rains flooded low lying areas paralyzing the main our national airport and a railway network well earlier this week the typhoon killed twenty three people in the philippines. and now we're straight into the world of business while

markets are dropping worldwide all of a sudden so what we're going to tell us about this very well this is basically after the head of the e.c.b. made his comments that is the usual monthly address in frankfurt and mario draghi failed to impress basically investors with unveiling new measures to save the euro this time around no measures have been indeed revealed although he did promise. he would do anything it takes to save the year within the mandate of the e.c.b. now rates have been left unchanged no point seven five percent central banks would be standing by to buy government bonds and the e.c.b. would be open to open market operations in order to support the market and that's pretty much it and investors as you can see are not impressed in the united states this is the or pretty much the opening picture the dow jones down point four percent and as that however is feeling much better some of the money has been

transferred into sections you can see that over in europe we're close to the closing bell for the sea is down point six percent the dax is the unusual volatility it's sixty percent. sixty percent plus the regular trade volumes and indeed as you can see the drug is words causing a lot of the selling on the currency market everything went from from bad to worse for the euro it was actually aiming to recover hundred seventeen points or one point against the dollar but now it's declining around nineteen points to the greenback the russian ruble is mixed pretty much equally against the two currencies and the russian market is in its final minutes of trading around fifteen minutes still left on the clock with the obvious myself dropping more than one percent the i.m.f. also put pressure on on russia to have a tighter. terry posey in order to reduce the risks let's now take

a look at what's moving my sex we've got several interesting stories there as hydros. fell thirty seven percent in the first quarter. therefore this is however seen to investors as a positive sign maybe it's better than expected growth telecom was announcing that it could merge or swap its mobile phone assets with sweden's tell it to handle gross never. heavily three percent as the company unveiled inspecting the results for the second quarter now traders dubbed it surprise loss very bad the two hundred forty seven million dollar hit followed profits of three billion in the first quarter was never blames the high tax bill as well as volatile oil and ruble markets. russia aims to hurry up with the development of its resource rich arctic shelf prime minister has said that by twenty thirty its gas output will be quadrupled while oil production should increase five force majeure of also pointed

that the shelf development is currently constrained by a lack of infrastructure and financing calling for boosting public private partnerships. the ongoing drought in the united states has caused of course a massive drops in harvest and therefore corn and soybean prices are record highs now this is also drawn attention to crucial problems in the industry which could lead to worsening of the situation global commodities jim rogers explains. the world has been consuming more than it's been producing for a decade now so we don't have much food left but worse we're running out of farmers the average age of farmers in america is fifty eight in japan it's sixty six in australia is fifty eight normally when prices go up a lot of farmers far more out they expand their crops etc but the problem is the

number of farmers is going down and the world cannot have that reaction that it normally does but one fortune the inventories to getting lower but if things keep up the inventories disappear and eventually there's no food at any price because there's no no farmers left the economist has published its latest a big mac in the eggs which values currencies on the price of hamburgers around the world while many in the course of a took a taste of what's changed around the world. this is one of them also hope the mcdonald's more ice in the heart of moscow a big mark here will set you back about soup dollars and twenty nine cents if you can that's expensive then you probably live in hong kong because that is the only country where a big mac is cheaper than just most of that but you know what else the. turtle tastes the same and i know from experience what it was well you would pay for returns of more than. a dollar. you.

know if you love your big macs and are on their side for it to finish the stay away from countries like norway switzerland and brazil as well to the next twelve months it's not considered more exotic like time and south africa but don't just take my word for it let's take a look at the charts in detail this year the big mike and that's looks at changes since the global money market seized up in the summer of two thousand and seven the economist assumes that production costs are equal overall that means it's possible to measure the purchasing power of world currencies in the rough months to the dollar according to the price of big macs you can see there that the ruble won from being undervalued forty percent to about fifty percent products was born again strong of heart conclusions from this index because it is based on the theory of purchasing power parity which says that extreme rates of moves up the five

a basket of goods is the same in each country but as we all know of course with the lower wages of rents for countries that the berries why says so it's like this where a grain of salt and joining a big mac. i know i'll be doing that and don't think too much about it. all we will rest old we were left with just the crumbs from that bug and how right well maybe it's not that bad anyway after all the misery thanks very much indeed for this date and of course up i had the mother of doing. her a mission to save her son from a vengeful united states.