breaking news here this morning u.s. officials say israel has bombed syria for a second time following a similar strike in january. and while the syrian opposition has accused the regime of carrying out. the claims coinciding with washington's announcement it's now openly considering. the u.k. independence party makes a breakthrough in local elections and sets its sights on parliament conservatives already admitting they. lost the and.

it's just after eight am on saturday morning here in moscow this is a life with me your news from around the world let's get straight to our breaking news story for you this hour here on out c israel has openly intervened in syria for the second time this year this according to u.s. officials they say carried out another bombing run on a target inside syria this following a previous strike in january let's get the latest now. from washington d.c. can you bring us up to speed now what exactly the details of the attack as far as you know. yes story major u.s. news channels report that it's true that we were planes struck a syrian weapons facility there citing their sources in the u.s. government they say it is not clear whether the warplanes crossed into syrian air space or whether the missiles were fired from across the border they'll cite it u.s. officials are saying that it did not appear that

a chemical weapons site was targeted one official say the strike appeared to have hit where house an official from the israeli embassy in washington told one of the news channels here and quote here israel is that determined to prevent the transfer of chemical weapons or are they game changing weather and weaponry by the syrian regime to terrorists especially to hezbollah in lebanon but again we have no confirmation of this right from the israeli government back in january u.s. officials say israeli warplanes have struck a syrian convoy suspected of moving wife and still has been live in lebanon at the same time syria as said these three we struck a scientific research facility near the mosque back then israel maintained its traditional silence in the face of accusation and studied by the latest serious suffering territory oh wait may see the same thing happening now just with force no official confirmation that is a few now of course but this is certainly

a follows president obama's statement this week something that he has said before that the use of chemical weapons by the assad government would be a game changer if the syrian government does not confirm that it has chemical weapons but it says it would never use them in syria even if it had them in the meantime the rebels and the assad government blame each other with the chemical attack in the middle of march near orlando the syrian government has requested a u.n. mission to investigate the incident president obama said the u.s. had evidence that chemical weapons were used in syria but had no evidence to tie to tied to the assad government are there so authors are gonna have to come here with the latest on this breaking news an unconfirmed second israeli strike inside syria live in the u.s. capital thank you. and while clash of the government forces and insurgents raged across syria the opposition has accused the regime of a genocidal massacre it's claimed at least fifty civilians were brutally killed

during an assault on a village and verified graphic footage of it's coming up now shows a mutilated victims of damascus has always been quick to place the blame for previous atrocities on the armed opposition many members of which are radical jihadists of his latest massacre claim follows the u.s. announcement that arming the rebels is now being openly considered a syrian journalist ali mohamed says allegations by the opposition always coincide with fresh foreign pressure on damascus. the opponents of the syrian regime can accuse it of many things being stupid is not one of these things and it will take a lot of stupidity to time be the massacres in the coalition with people who are in the coalition if you know great strength before decisions are being made each time a big and important event because in syria was happening within the un security council in any other entity and each and every time there was there were talks of all my security and policing the world gets to do this this is beyond being very

cheap and i do believe you can see the size and to be suspicious by more weapons mean more messages because they were concerned the use of automatic response committed by the rebels and that is this does not seem to bother the me tunisians on the u. s. so giving more weapons means more the people and more of the people does not in any we mean something good for the country. well meantime russia strongly opposes arming the rebels as it continues to seek ways to mediate a diplomatic solution to the conflict and unlike the west moscow remains committed to negotiating with all sides in syria as the russian foreign minister reiterated on friday. let us go. we are open for talks with all syrian opposition members by think a way to stop the violence won't be found in moscow or any other foreign capital only in direct talks between the opposition and the syrian government arming

non-governmental play is violates international law it's not the time to pour oil on the fire of the syrian conflict for all outside players is time to push all parties syrian government and various opposition groups political and military force them to announce a cease fire to sit down for talks arming the syrian rebels is betting on a military solution and not a political settlement. but if you were rich there's little this is r.t. still ahead for you in this hour that of a controversial career paths dozens in role in drone training programs being offered at u.s. universities despite huge debate over privacy violations and unlawful killing spy the unmanned aircraft those details just ahead for you. but for now here on our other u.k. independence party has made a major breakthrough in local elections claiming one in every four votes cast the

conservatives were sharp part of the ruling coalition have admitted all mainstream parties have quote major lessons to learn from the group seeking the country's withdrawal from the european union and more on this now to r.t. correspondent polyploid. it's been a momentous day for the u.k. independence party we've seen them come second in the south shields by election just behind labor and that's significant because we see a pattern emerging the past six months have seen you can't come second in full by elections some of the more we've had stunning council election results we've seen the ruling coalition parties the liberal democrats and the conservatives very sustained major losses in terms of council seats it's really you can't that have come out on top now this is a party that's been seen by many as the protest vote party the people a very keen for them if they feel too frustrated with labor conservatives liberal democrats the traditional status quo political parties but i think that

a lot of people are going to have to be taking them a lot more seriously now and then a lot of people didn't take them very seriously just a few days ago the a senior conservative member called them clowns say they might have to have everything about that we're going to have you keep councillors across england and wales the conservative party chairman has said that clearly the tories are failed to get their message across and they're going to have to have a rethink about how they can change that now i'm joined by the city spokesman for the u.k. and dependents party stephen wolf stephen chances are all well and good but they're not m p's have has ukip actually made significant gains today yes we have what we have done is created a seismic shift in politics in the united kingdom we have put a message down to the three political parties that there is a fool for all to hear on the block we are not keen on the door of parliament to use they have criticized us and said that we're a small party i'm not with voting for but you could be seen as the protest for it

is bad enough to make gains in a general election when it's a protest vote for the political elites if you want to put it in those terms they ignored us in the past and said they'd never want. to listen to this because we were a one party one issue party and then they said we were just a one person party if we got significant second places across the country from eastlink to south shields is a protest that is the sort of process that i want and i want to see as expand also as every political party has to put down a mountain of saying here's our policies come on come on have a go and tell us whether you like them or not that is quite right and we're ready to do that we're going to have to work them on the list we're going to have to show that we can afford it in a time of austerity but i believe that once we such on the policy how we're going to pay for it and we've got the right people to actually deliver it we're going to be moving forward at an even greater speed than you've seen today stephen wolf city spokesman for the u.k. independence party thank you very much for your comments well there you have it was a seismic shift taking place in british politics david cameron's already said that

he's going to have to work very hard to try and win back the support will there is that a very to say you can't if in the past two days. of his party poker reporting there from london the party's leader and nigel for raj is called the group's achievement quote and a rival of for party politics george eaton editor of the political blog the new statesman he says the disillusionment of voters in the three major parties is ultimately driving them straight into ukip so it's. there's no doubt that you can have a significant headache for the tories if they do take continued staying very itself . in the numbers they are then it will make it easier they've it's win in twenty fifty and if it is a protest vote then that is one you can't member. it's a bloody big protest fades and that's because i think many of those who are trying to you are trying to you can construct it so much by its stance on the euro it's

sonce on immigration by its ads establishment critics credentials and they they see the three main parties as part of a cosy westminster clock that this is against them and they do have faith in any of these solutions that they're putting forward that of course you concept tell people how they should vote they will vote it's all the whatever grounds they want to and if they they want to vote for you care because they like niger for oscar because they don't like any of the of the other main policies that not no on can tell them otherwise. on the website. you can find more and more governments across the globe atoning to the tactic of spying on their own citizens by peeking at data on their computers find out who is the latest to join the cyber intelligence club and learn more about the software involved. supporting the.

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years of construction and back by two decades of spectacular performances the new two as already been dubbed one of the world's most ambitious new theaters. and russia's cultural got. standing just outside the marines here to cheer on day two just live or come out here in st petersburg the theater was opened for the public after ten years of waiting to get a seat in that there's a wonderful auditorium as well as see a piece of the theater now of course with all the critics say luring about we want to find out what of the people themselves afloat yeah yeah especially that you know i'm waiting for something you know building is beautiful but this one is going to be so sunny that's why i'm looking forward to something magical. i wish despite all the technical novelties of the new stage some of the directors kept the original staging of the classical performances surprising us with innovations and new

productions of the classic pieces as they are. you see for your commissioners. first of all i hope to see the ballet which is a jewel itself as well as the technical abilities of the new stage the conductor and the performers this is an amazing event in the lives of citizens of st peters murdered in the program from a. day to consisted of the marines a ballet company the company is actually split into three parts the rubies and the diamonds as well as are the arrows and now the company wanted to stage a mixture of a piece of bytes a kosky servin ski and a four way a miniature that they called the jewel it was a performance that stunned everybody which had everybody on their feet applauding with critics a silence that there's no doubt that this is a new mariinsky theatre to space will become the emblem of st petersburg.

course want to buy more time reporting tabbouleh still to come here on the program vote over the reverse brain drain and scores of greeks flee the big cities to the countryside in the hope of avoiding suffocating for session and unemployment we bring you the stories of some of them in just a few minutes. but for now as many as ten thousand drones could be proud american skies by twenty twenty that's according to the u.s. aviation administration and as washington continues to boost domestic surveillance in the name of public safety and growing numbers of young americans choosing to get in on the action he's an associate as the story. unmanned aerial vehicles better known as drones are not only in the skies but might be taught at a college hearing at least three u.s. schools offer bachelor degrees in engineering and flying dozens more offer drone

one zero one courses and classes. the university of north dakota kicked off its four year program in two thousand and nine with just five students that number is now at one hundred twenty they've elected to major in unmanned aircraft systems and i believe the reason is that they see that as an opportunity for growth it's an emerging technology embry riddle aeronautical university in florida began training u.a.b. pilots and operators in two thousand and eleven and expects the number of graduates to reach the hundreds in the next several years it's becoming more and they use are becoming more prevalent in pretty much any time region you can imagine the increased interest in the drone industry is largely fueled by post-grad starting salaries that are much higher than those for pilots flying planes or helicopters or an economy that's hasn't recovered ok so people see opportunities for jobs wherever there's money to be had of course but the problem is that universities are supposed

to do something more than serve the military industrial complex. to widespread debate drones are notoriously used as weapons and u.s. wars abroad the one that's under heavy scrutiny right now is that i mean aircraft are in the past been used by the military therefore the logical lead is that i'm an aircraft we use militaristically in the united states the federal aviation administration says that ten thousand commercial drones could be used over u.s. skies within five years for surveillance and other purposes while controversy surrounding them is that a piece how dare day even talk about drones on a domestic case that there are many many cities in the country that have already got rights to use these drones and they will be using them so without the laws that protect our privacy we do. not how they're going to be used most people teaching and studying u.a.b. oriented programs insist their use is much more varied than for military purposes abroad and surveillance at home i think. where that when need be an issue at all

border security meteorological and environmental surveillance such as sending a drone into a hurricane without having to worry about the pilots are among the applications most commonly praised and you use still the most common association with drones at home is law enforcement and it's this aspect that's making americans very uncomfortable obviously there's going to be some regulations that are going to have to be put in place so that people don't run around or at least you know police or whoever doesn't just have the ability to run around and you know go unchecked looking at you know having a ever watchful eye over the public but i don't think that will it will be a deterrent or so it'll be a challenge to make sure that you know people are happy with the implementation of their craft into the national airspace system officials are yet to convince americans that there are more pros than cons to drones flying over u.s. soil it's time to say wait a minute hold up let's not move forward in this area without understanding where we're going and that's the problem here that's the danger the association for

unmanned vehicle systems international estimates the number of american jobs in the industry will grow to over twenty three thousand over the next fifteen years. and. new york. now the funerals have been held in iraq for those killed in a bomb blast at a sunni mosque just north of baghdad on friday a total of seven were killed at least thirty wounded and the country's seeing some of his worst ballance in almost five years the u.n. claiming more than seven hundred were killed just last month alone many fear that sectarian divisions and the inability of all thought to maintain order could send the nation back into full scale war rocky sunni's complained that being marginalized by the shiite led government ever since u.s. troops toppled saddam hussein al qaeda operatives are reportedly flooding the country from a few hundred last year to about two thousand and now some iraqi leaders say if the state slides into civil war it will be worse than syria defense analyst ivan eland

he believes centralized rule won't ever work for such disparate groups. we have no sectarian tensions which have been there since the sense a long since decades but were unleashed when the us invaded in two thousand and three and of course played out in two thousand and six and two thousand and seven where you had sectarian warfare between she sunni i think there's probably going to be an escalating conflict in iraq the kurds used to side with the shia government but i'm not sure that they would anymore because they have a lot of disputes with the government now that they didn't have before as you have plenty of guns that the u.s. bribed the sudanese to quit attacking the united states troops when they were there and so that all these guns are left over so essentially the u.s. . during a talking patient is armed all three groups there that the government has always

been used by one group to oppress the other groups and therefore a strong central government which the u.s. left is a bad thing i think i think what should happen is decentralization what different groups run different regions with security and judiciary. maybe have a free trade area like a can fail loose confederation these countries might keep it stable. or into the oxy world update now starting with portugal where the government has announced plans to cut thirty thousand public sector jobs in a bid to meet the terms of an e.u. bailout or other austerity measures aimed at saving four point eight billion euros by two thousand and fifteen and would also include extending both the retirement age. for schools economy has been battered by three consecutive years of recession and record high unemployment at nearly eighteen percent the conservative government's austerity policies have proved stream really on the popular triggering the last public demonstrations. in the libyan capital crowds of anti militia

protesters have clashed with demonstrated soaping calling for the era officials to be thrown out of government last week government besieged the foreign and justice ministries in tripoli demanding a lot poaching ex members of the ousted regime and the army had to be deployed in the city to ensure security ahead of the latest protests the tension is yet another sign of the growing instability that threatens libya's first elected author of he's of course since the overthrow of the arab spring uprising. and to america now where more than three thousand firefighters are battling raging wildfires in the u.s. state of california would have almost doubled in size and the emergency services say only around twenty percent of the flames have been brought under control so far at least fifteen homes have been destroyed and four thousand others are now under threat from the fires which broke out on thursday at this point no injuries reported. now use of recession and austerity in greece have seen

a reverse to the brain drain in the country with scores of people being chased out in the big cities by the high cost of living and unemployment. spoke to some of them to learn if the grass is greener in the countryside. the young man on the sea theodorus is in his forty's but while he used to make his living at a newspaper in greece's second city press on nicky he's now returned to his roots on the northern greek coast this is theodorus his fresh fish shop he took it over when his uncle retired two years ago and now theodorus is making a go of it himself far away from the big city. his decision is part of the trend greeks unable to make ends meet in the cities looking to areas with smaller economies and costs. the company i work for cut our salaries so i decided to come here to find a better life for my children and me it cost us also gave up

a life in athens to open a guest house in the hills of northern greece the life of a city advertising manager was good he says but people should think before writing off the world outside. thing that there you go there are many opportunities for you to make your life better in a small town rather than in africans. and a potential reverse brain drain from cities back to the regions could hold hidden benefits being educated and hip with the experience of cuban working in the areas and all the experience of the money gives living in the city lives i mean these people be. killed by mean to do the countryside to develop not that everyone relishes the prospect demetrius moved away when he was eighteen and is now a freshly out of work t.v. director he finds adjusting to life back here difficult he wanted to stay in the

capital in a piece for free i was forced to come back here because of the high rates of unemployment in athens it was a matter of survival for me for these three greeks asked for increasing multitudes of others this move choice or not is a path away from unsustainable living in cities hit by economic crisis here at least if they have little else new arrivals or old home commerce of the scenery of the sea tom bottom r.t. . all right it's only half past eight in the morning here in the russian capital this is r.t. with me or researcher it's a pleasure to have you with us today and more news in half an hour's time but i coming up next after a very short break on your financial show called. interest this is outside.

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d.c. and here's the story that we're tracking today. it's good news for jobs or is it the two headline numbers from this morning's big employment report beat expectations but about two thirds of those games were in leisure and hospitality temporary work or retail sector overgaard lots of this the federal reserve which keeps a very close tabs on this report will take notice of the improvement in unemployment which ticked down to seven and a half percent which this is just one percentage point above where the fed would start to consider slowing down and eighty five billion dollars per month the money printing program now just a few weeks into her new role as i.c.c. chairwoman mary jo white is confronting some very tough issues that her predecessor table first it was the jobs act and now it's money market reform and her in her own predecessor always being walter had to say this on the subject. i would much prefer

to see a proposal be put out by the f.c.c. and by the i think virtually everyone if not everyone on the upside agrees with that the pressure to reform them all tied trillion dollar money market fund industry is the evidence is a key part of the shadow banking system that seized objects in the financial panic we'll talk to stem aggressive and more with former o.m.b. director dave. stockmen and a bit finally a little birdie told us the winners added in i.p.o. expert she would payroll that's right cynthia gaylord hails from morgan stanley and her seventeen years investment banking experience include work with facebook and linked in investors and facebook twelve i.p.o. are still reeling in from a disappointing star in mixed earnings results hopes are about twitter will be able to tap in new revenue streams without drawing user anger all right let's get to what's in your interest.