general simply said to condemn the security council's in action on syria as moscow calls to speed up the search for a new piece of boy. tear gas and stun grenades in bahrain the government leads a fresh crackdown against the long running protests as activists try and cut off a key highway. and the anti putin punk band is defending why it pulled the political stunt of russia's main cathedral the three would face up to seven years jail if convicted. hello welcome is r t from moscow my name's kevin oh in our top story the a.p.m. here the u.n.

general assembly is to vote on condemning the security council for failing to stop the violence in syria as bloodshed in the country surges russia's urging the u.n. on the arab league to move fast now and finding a new chief peacemaker for syria kofi annan stepping down blaming escalating bloodshed and finger pointing at the security council. and the reports from new york. after what has been virtually months of diplomatic deadlock highlighted by the recent thursday's resignation of un special envoy to syria kofi anon the international community seems to be back to attempting to make bibi steps in pushing the syrian process forward and this friday the one hundred ninety three member united nations general assembly is set to vote on a resolution which is not going to be legally binding it will be purely recommendation this text basically condemns the syrian government calling describing the failure of it to pull out of civilian areas it calls on the syrian

government to stop the use of heavy weapons and it also condemns the united nations security council for failing to find some sort of tangible solution to the events unraveling on the ground interestingly the initial text of this resolution did call for of bashar al assad to step down and this regime change is exactly what the united states and the west had been calling for this entire time and it's also the exactly the kind of language that russia and china vetoed three times at the united nations security council and we've seen yesterday on thursday the second news broke out that kofi annan was stepping down this language of calling for assad to step down was back again on the table from the western nations and the united states even though it had been put on pause for a while when the six point peace plan was put on the table by kofi anon interesting lee this was taken out because the general assembly understands and the country

pushing forward this text understand that a majority is needed and it's not just russia and china who oppose this kind of language it has other countries as well and for this to text to pass this tough language was taken out to get a slight majority still russia has called this text one sided and unbalanced the six point peace plan does remain on the table even though it's. and to be quite unproductive and didn't go anywhere and didn't get the process started we also know that the united nations observer mission expires on july twentieth whether or not this mandate will be extended remains to be seen we do know that barbecue movement and the arab league are in negotiations to try to figure out who kofi anan successor is going to be russia has said that it's very important to get this person in position as soon as possible but how soon and exactly how the diplomatic deadlock on the conflicting positions will be resolved remains to be seen and the situation of course saw that it was

a battle for syria's second city aleppo is getting more bloody by the day u.n. observers now report a heavy build up of weapons in the area rebels are being accused of executions and abuses against regime supporters even so revelations in the u.s. media claim washington was funneling more covert day to the opposition i spoke to story in gerald hole and he told me america could pay for stoking extremism in syria. it's well known that washington basically has perfected the idea of the two trucks or policy that is to say on the one hand you talked and smile on the other hand and mike in the back that's basically what's happening in syria all of that is a lie out there about negotiations with the outside regime is no more than that they would like to see regime change although as usual i don't think washington has consequences that is to say that there is a real danger that i don't like forces will be coming to power sooner rather than later in the and then washington will be faced with

a replay of what if helped engineer in afghanistan where it helped engineer the coming to power of the taliban which opened the door to gain influence there which led to the tragedy of september eleventh two thousand and one but the war crisis still ring on and some of the main media outlets nonetheless coming out we report tonight how balanced broadcasts from syria get sacrificed for rallying support for regime change. and also echoes of apartheid as so for white communities to say they're being made second class citizen report coming out. and the government protesters in bahrain and face tear gas and stun grenades as hundreds of people attended to block a key highway there witnesses say some of been taken into custody the demos against the ruling regime began nearly eighteen months ago with activists claiming they face deadly discrimination from the sun a monarchy geo political analyst patrick henningsen says the situation in bahrain is being ignored because it's a washington ally. in bahrain what you have is

a genuine uprising a genuine political movement potential revolution. that is being completely in order for two reasons the main reason is rain host the united states fifth naval fleet it's a very important strategic piece on the chess board especially in terms of looking towards potential aggression against iran so as bahrain has a role family that completely have society locked down because the secedes there is no way that the u.s. wants any kind of a democratic uprising in that country because it will make the government's policy unstable towards hosting u.s. military presence in the country actually need so badly the difference between syria and bahrain is that syria refuses to be an outpost for international western imperialism and bahrain is an outpost for that so maybe hillary clinton should be

having friends of bahrain meetings to help the bahraini people of course that's not going to happen the situation in bahrain is grave if you're on the side of reform if you're with the royal family everything's fine authorities and russia's urals have refused to open a criminal case into last week's discovery of two hundred fifty one fetuses dumped in a forest ravine ulti shown thomas says more than on the story which stunned people across the country. no criminal investigation into this case of around two hundred fifty fetuses found about seventy kilometers north of you katherine a bird in the wilderness there in fact police have directed an administrative investigation into the urals medical academy where they have determined that these fetuses that came from in the first place now this is interesting because the car that was determined to have dumped the fetuses was believed to be registered to the municipality of the region so that's interesting it did not belong to the actual

academy itself now they have one month to conduct this investigation if they do not come up with an answer of who is responsible for this negligence police have said that they will open up an administrative investigation into the director of the academy himself so very interesting turn of events here let me give you a little bit brief history last week around two hundred fifty fetuses were found dumped about seventy kilometers north of you capturing a bird by a man who was looking for water fishermen and he found these four large barrels closer inspection found that they held a visa human fetuses all between twenty two and twenty six terms which are late term. foetuses so kind of a mystery in terms of where these came from this of course created shock and scandal not just in russia but around the world as well now the health ministry believes that there was a woman who was responsible for research who was fired in two thousand and eleven might be responsible for these fetuses of being found in the woods but the actual

academy itself says that they actually have to conduct their investigation before they can make any determined determination into who is responsible. instead of five in the trial of the russian female punk group pussy riot defense lawyers have begun explaining the anti putin stunted moscow's main cathedral in february the three members of charged with the good news i'm motivated by religious hatred as co-chair with a reporter jacob the court brings a date on what's going on today take a high what was said in court then. really stands out as the first time we've heard from the defense and they've had the chance to put their eye witnesses on the stand to give testimony now as you might imagine the accounts we've heard today different greatly than what's transpired so far in this five day trial which is really been dominated by the prosecution the eyewitness accounts of her debut much more glowing of the three defendants one friend of the accused giving her account

and also two professors as well now this trial so far is really been dominated by a very outspoken legal team on behalf of the defense they've accused the judges guardian of this case of not allowing them to properly cross-examine the prosecution's eyewitnesses and even at one point on tuesday they accused the judge regarding this case and the detention facility where they're being kept in custody of inhumane treatment or not allow them proper access to food to water and being deprived of the necessary amount of sleep and as such but again heard today of the requesting for the sixth time in this trial the judge residing in the case to be replaced by the court of public opinion the course of this case has polarized the public in russia one of people saying. pointed it's really been a confession lies trial based mean the confession lies the issue ever since these

three defendants were initially taken into custody nurses or for that so-called punk prayer that took place back in favoring criseyde because we have to bear in mind this is really the symbolic head of the russian orthodox faith as such tended many of the faith for even though this is politically motivated stunt to get essentially back to me and then his potential to be president but also some this attack to be our international human rights organizations who are. politically motivated saying they are prisoners of conscience and indeed even international musicians as well and we've recently heard from the president himself has given his opinion on this trial. which i hope the court will rule in just decision if the bound let's see defiled a seeker police in israel would have to cope with some tough guys there and would face difficulties when attempting to leave the country or if for example they went

to the caucuses and defaced a muslim shrine security wouldn't have enough time to protect them from public anger never the less and don't think we should judge them too strictly those made some important conclusions themselves anyway the final decision is on the court for the new year. now there we're hearing from the president calling for some leniency when it comes to this trial now because the trial itself we are suspected to be have a few more days at least when it comes to this trial before a verdict and indeed sentence is reached this is probably be one the most controversial elements of this trial so far because potentially if found guilty of the charges of hooliganism facing the three defendants or the maximum sentence could be handed out here is seven years in prison ok thanks for that jacob appreciated what we were of course put across the trial from the outset you can get

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download the official r.t. application so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite from our now t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch r.t. any time any. the mother of julie the sarge says she fears his son could face execution if he's extradited to the u.s. christina sarge is in ecuador right now lobbying for the country to grant asylum for the wiki leaks editor she met president correia who was short her ecuador decision will not be influenced by external pressure because of the science has been in ecuador's london embassy now for over six weeks he's wanted in sweden over sex crime allegations which he denies saying they're a pretext to how they were to the u.s. to face trial over the leaking secret cables and later in our exclusive interview

his mother christie tells r.t. that she's proud of her son. and two we have one is the number of calls on which he did that don't answer no. that is the this is heading this to get down to the intense to the world at least it should. be stored. torture. and for all involved to be funny to which of course i completely support my son. i mean watch your exclusive interview with julian assange his mother on air again in fifteen minutes time tonight we bring up to date on some top news stories from around the world at first an attack by kurds in the southeast turkey's killed at least one soldier and wounded several others the rebels opened fire on a military outpost as troops were breaking their ramadan fast that sundown on

thursday violence has grown in the area as kurds seek autonomy in the region it's thought groups on the border are taking advantage of on rest in neighboring syria right now. greece's decision to privatized a bank brought a crowd of angry employees in athens in one of the biggest protests in weeks over five thousand staff of the formerly state owned bank of five days into a nationwide strike now fearing for their jobs greek banks have been under growing pressure to reorganize since the financial crisis hit and plunged the country into a long running recession north korean leader kim jong un has set out plans to develop the economy and people's livelihoods as his top priorities moving away than from the military first mindset the statement was made during a meeting with china's foreign minister in the aftermath of floods and famine which devastated swathes of north korea reform rumors have been circulating since a top military figure in pyongyang was sacked for opposing change. now to syria specifically how its tragic events are unfolding across the media for many foreign

outlets it's simple reports that back up the push for regime change get the top priority examined reports. i should write. a story about joining the camp when a japanese journalist travelling with syrian rebels converted to islam it wasn't just his old name he abandoned. most but for those around him he still being someone who reports to the company he became one of the few camera hanging on the place of a rifle. while religious conversion of journalists is rare on the syrian front lines becoming political disciples on one side the rebels is almost the norm for many reporting to the world in the past weeks of coverage c.n.n. has aired back to just from the syrian frontlines all detailing the plight of those fighting the government and while the regime is always pinned down for its use of force against the militants this is a government monster killings by the rebels barely get

a mention what happened to the go you capture this room he died the rebel commander says god willing he went to hell usually open and talkative syrians are now afraid of cameras those who agree to be interviewed often ask for their faces or names not to be shown for fear of reprisals the satellite dishes or household commodity syrians do watch western coverage of the conflict and many feel that their concerns their fears their losses are intentionally. to their feelings just because you know what this is not really even first time i've been able to come to syria you know you might want to get away before you don't have a visa. we've been waiting for a visa you know you're sort of there with them to get these are the usual claim that the syrian government doesn't love western reporters into the country is not accurate currently there are around eighty foreign media outlets accredited in syria

a sizeable number of them european or american but there dispatches are not always welcomed at home christiane sun is an independent belgian writer. and you want to bring a certain picture about syria. the evil. the use of force or selective editing is hardly a new invention the war wars has long become a cliche but in syria one sided coverage keeps the war going and shooting for t.v. really kills journalism schools not longer teach their students to be objective it's considered impossible rather they're told to strive for balance and integrity and to put humanistic values above. but syria is once again a special case in this bloody conflict western media rarely calls for rick affiliation or political dialogue rather it's for arming the rebels and what they were also known as freedom fighter to go on

a summer break artsy reporting from syria well racial discrimination was felt no more painfully in the world than south africa when apartheid was dictionary two decades ago the country was reborn but race related prejudice is reemerge this time against the whites living there. are investigated. once the color of all to start and skin was the key to the good life here and now it is merely part of another forgotten face of the new south africa white homeless and unemployed. ultras one of a growing number of concert africans living a hop skip and a jump from sleeping on the streets to worldly positions amount to a bed and some clothes to waste on handouts from charities and churches sometimes she goes without food for days. always rises was the girl. stuff like that. is the place for words when south africa held

its first democratic elections eighteen years ago it marked the end of apostate separation between whites and blacks but what was once it was black people in this country who were discriminated against today its white south africans were falling through the cracks in the days of apartheid impoverished white afrikaners were cradled by the state the national party came to power in one nine hundred forty eight on a wave of africana nationalism one of its election promises was to guarantee afrikaans speaking south africans employment subsidized housing education jobs and state benefits it left the black population out in the cold there used to be a big model clause created by the system in south africa and that created. sorry five even four people since one thousand nine hundred forty new government has carried out policies aimed at favoring black employees in a bid to do away with the imbalance of the past what this means is that white

people are often overlooked when applying for jobs college bursaries and public positions in this brave but often unsettling new south africa there are many who feel washed up and unwanted forty year old irene funny has lived here with her husband and four children for six years she suffers from the pain of arthritis which makes it difficult for her to walk she calls the government's well meaning policies little short of reverse racism and many many many many. grandfathers and grandmothers was against. it i was staying in sheds like us and they were staying in houses got everything and now it's out then we staying in chests and. this abandon caravan park is home for now it lends those on the fringes of society a place to sleep but even. this shaky safe haven is under threat the owners of this land are fighting in court to move off the people people who stay here it's got

nothing nothing nothing and that it will then go to a place to go they get. that that's why they say yes. fifty million people live in south africa one in nine is white and very many of them a struggling try telling that to the millions of black south africans living in grinding poverty but for people like al to find started it is a depressing comedown all she can see in the land of her birth is a door slamming in her face forever i don't know what is going to happen to my little girls. anymore except the hope that one day the door will open instead of slam policy r.t. krugersdorp south africa. twenty three minutes past eight o'clock here in moscow as culture in the business side of the tree seems everyone is talking these days about the olympics but the business side of it does it generate a profitable it but enough controversy was never about the huge amount of sponsorship in those so-called sponsorship please go around always come with

a huge price tag that is absolutely true and many cities have come to regret having . because indeed london it's already under fire because costs just seemed to grow all the time they were initially three point eight billion dollars now they're around thirty eight billion dollars for an ounce of us actually was this report by laura smith. there's no doubt the lympics have been more expensive than it was first thoughts even officially the budget quote drew poles and some reports say it's increased by as much as ten times from three point eight billion dollars to thirty eight billion and where has that money gone one point six billion on security versus dogs but much of it is going into building the olympic park including the eight hundred fifty million dollars stadium itself the aquatic center a four hundred twenty six million and the hundred and sixty six million dollars.

and that's where the word legacy comes in where the government hopes the billions spent will carry on paying division off to the athletes that go to. the stadium itself is currently a worrying white elephant is being offered to a number of london football clubs none of whom want to take his own but the olympic park will become new housing parkland a community health center in what used to be a depressed rundown area according to experts it's this current of legacy planning that separates an olympic host city that profit from one that loses and there are many cities that have lived to regret its hosting the olympics athens built grand spend years up to twenty one of which now lie and t. and pulling down much like its economy as a whole. spent an undisclosed amount of money hosting but the famous bird's nest stadium now lies under used much planning has gone into making sure london's

investment doesn't suffer the same fate but nothing is certain. well there's more certainty indeed on the stock markets today it's all boy and that's after the employment unemployment data report came in the united states from the labor department saying that one hundred sixty three thousand jobs were added in the known farm sector which was much better than anticipated and therefore this key indicator for the u.s. economy is the casing is indicating that there may be hope for the future of the oil to mizzen is actually not out of the question same thing happening in europe we're seeing the footsie and the dax gaining have to lead this out red led by financials and on the commodities market we're also witnessing a similar picture now that hopes of a comeback for higher demand for energy light sweet is adding more than three dollars per barrel now this has helped enormously the russian ruble gain against

both currencies notably against the dollar take a look at that one point six percent to forty nine copecks for almost a while the euro is slightly higher versus the dollar as investors cashing in and out of the deal now on the russian market very nice into the week of the r.t.s. up more than three percent of my sex almost two percent as you can see that also led by financial shares also very juicy returns have been promised for investing now in russian infrastructure since asset management says pumping money into new toll roads hospitals and airports will bring over twenty percent annual return something that most investors can only dream about masons adds that russia's government will be backing businessmen who as they hope will raise national g.d.p. from four to a predicted six percent by buy into these projects. and facebook is finally seeing a day of growth four and

a half percent after more than forty days of losses twenty billion dollars have been wiped off the company's value in the past four days and news is just coming in bad news sister of facebook's co-founder mark zuckerberg has moved to google and also mark zuckerberg is now only the seventy seventh richest man in the world but you're still remain under twenty one dollars whereas if you remember the i.p.o. the listing price was thirty eight dollars per share so it's not bad makes you want to weep for a business. thanks ever so much on the way our exclusive interview with the mother of wiki leaks headed to julian assange that hear from moscow after the headlines.

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