police in the you are so hunting for a group of gunmen who went on a shooting rampage during a mother's day parade in new orleans injuring nineteen people. drums up a fresh baseball for an intervention in syria off to blaming damascus for a deadly cross border boarding. on the while cash strapped greece awaits a your approval for another bailout loan conscious terror to cause pacing the nation's health where sex or sending medication costs a story there were. this

is coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the problem police in louisiana hunting down several gunman who opened fire on a crowd during mother's day celebrations one thousand people were injured in the brawl daylight tog during a street parade in new orleans the incident opened wounds that many in america saw were just beginning to hail as art has been a check our reports. new orleans was celebrating mother's day with over three hundred people participating in a parade police say three individuals are believed to be responsible for starting a shootout two four of the wounded though are believed to be in critical condition another public event and other tragedy there's a manhunt underway for the three suspects who police believe have managed to escape one of them is reportedly wounded in the same way as investigators of the boston marathon bombings appealed for crowd sourced photographs new orleans police have

urged anyone with any photographs of the parade to step forward so just in boston the police are drawing the public into the manhunt certainly putting nearby neighborhoods on high alert police are going door to door in search for suspects and of course everyone is hopeful that they will find them but at the same time many are looking at these recent public events which have gone terribly wrong in thinking where the law enforcement can really provide security at outdoor gatherings like this with the boston bombers there could have been early warnings that were missed the perpetrators of this shooting in new orleans we don't know who they are but we do know that in the u.s. there's very little control over in whose hands guns end up guns are freely sold the gun shows and online and all of this makes people nervous about their safety at public events naturally. and you can head to our web site for the last hunger council war happened as well as images from the scene and good at showing how the

time began. and also online for you keep up with the debate on the risks posed by firearms that could be produced or right in your home with three d. printers that's on r.t. dot com. the idea that britain would be better off outside the european union is gaining ground in prime minister david cameron's government the defense secretary has now joined the education secretary in saying he would vote for the u.k. to leave the block if the referendum was held right now actually some of us reports now from london. this is going to look to many like the prime minister struggling to maintain control of discipline amongst his own party eva the e.u. is she no we seem very senior figures within his own party education minutes that michael going to come out and say that he feels that there could be a benefits to leaving the event that sentiment echoed by the defense secretary

philip hammond he said that he'd vote to lead if the referendum were on the basis of our relationship in britain with the e.u. as it stands today you know rather embarrassing for the prime minister of course because he's in the us at the present time to press for a trade deal between the e.u. and the us that he claims could bring ten billion pounds that i knew benefits to britain and now they had a comment the prime minister's actually had a statement where he said when he responded to these statements from senior figures and he said that he first seem to think there's a swing in the tao even before all the negotiation has started now this is in reference of course to his the speech at the beginning of the year where he promised that if the party were voted in with a majority in the twenty fifteen general election that there would then be an in out referendum by twenty seventy all to those who renegotiation of britain's

relationship with the remember a lot of people amongst his own party included want to see a substantial repatch relation of powers from the e.u. but of course there were many unanswered questions a predominantly a well would actually be considered a failure because of course if there's no guarantee whatsoever the person would i get that renegotiation of a relationship that's going to be a lot of questions about the prime minister is only thirty within his own party this isn't any problem the split over the new issue is an old problem for the conservative party if you can imagine that the other parties right now are going to be absolutely gleeful so this whole family squabble is that once again being played out so publicly. britain is not alone and phrasing growing calls to leave the europe's largest economy germany is keeping up its official start of that europe must remain united but in these state of bavaria many see things differently he

spoke with a leading advocate over dependency wilfried a sundial who explained why patients with the german government's pro e.u. stance is running low. varia has always shown solidarity and we continue to show solidarity even during the european crisis we bear a large share of the burden but i'd like to ask the e.u. has provided the first bailout for greece second bailout for greece third bailout for greece billions billions and billions if i ask the german people whether they believe they will ever get even one euro bank they will all say no the politicians are aware of that and they just pretend like they're not but the worst part of it is that millions and millions of greeks are really between a rock and a hard place don't benefit one bit from all these bailouts i don't know anybody who's ever benefited from them those greeks who don't have jobs you don't have any income you don't know how to provide for their families their situation does not

improve this means something's wrong with the system and one more thought about greece our politicians say the greece is only two point five percent of the e.u. economy so my question for my fellow politicians is how can two point five percent bring the entire one hundred percent to ruin. and you can catch up the full interview with that wilfred shankar at eighteen point five jan team meanwhile it's all eyes of brussels where finance chiefs are expected to approve new rescue loans for greece and cyprus later on here on the program we'll look at the greek economy after three years of cash injections from international lenders and try find out what they found should've gotten any better . turkey has the international community to act against the government of bashar al assad in neighboring syria and korea says

it has evidence linking saturday's deadly blast in a border town to the syrian intelligence service damascus has denied any involvement to that tax which left forty six people dead and pointed the finger at turkey all she's part of clear has more now. turkey has blamed the syrian president bashar assad for these bombings without having undergone any kind of investigation what they have said is that syrian intelligence is to quote them the usual suspects now the difficulty turkish prime minister says that the organization and the members behind the attacks have been largely identified but what is worrying is that this does say it's a bad precedent to merely blame assad right away without giving any kind of proof or any kind of conclusive evidence as to why you say that nine people have been detained all of them are turkish citizens according to the turkish deputy prime minister and he has stressed that there be no links to the syrian opposition so it has denied that they are behind the attacks the syrian government issued

a statement in which it said that we are saddened by the fall of martyrs in turkey in one way or another the turkish people are syrian brothers the north of syria is the region bordering turkey and that's where extremist opposition groups are particularly active what is unclear as of yet is how many of them could have in fact crossed over into turkey now the city where the explosion occurred has received tens of thousands of refugees and it is possible that some of them are radical elements there's no proof to say that they are there is no proof to say that they are not these radical elements are setting up their own infrastructure and there are many groups among them such as the mr front and the salafist if you've already done so we have been receiving reports that in aleppo for example there are reportedly some twenty rebel brigades operating and they've set up the machinery of government and justice in the courts is that they have taken over they've set up courts for example that are manned by lawyers and judges they've set up schools they say so that there's no vacuum in the administration and public

institutions so you certainly do have this very warring phenomena that there is a large number of extremist elements that are operating particularly along the turkish syrian border. while the conflict continues to rage in syria turns of thousands of refugees have fled across the border to turkey that's maybe border zone between the country's extremely volatile she's more if an ocean examines the situation there for. turkey shares its longest border with syria it's hard to imagine now but in two thousand and nine the two countries even held joint military drills across that frontier in what was a brief thaw in relations between the two while commonly syrian and serbian turkish they are so close but it's really only the border that prevents them being a single city people here joke they could have dinner in syria and coffee in turkey just by strolling through the gates you can see behind me but it's now closed and

the relation strained like never before changes came after turkey joined the chorus of fellow made to states and called for assad to step down immediately diplomatic political logistical support for the syrian opposition has made two key one of series key foes there are numerous unconfirmed reports of weapons and ammunition smuggled into syria with help of people on the side of the border either through airports or on land. often. absence of any convincing denial from the government given the government's policy of saying. what position you look at the whole picture. inspiring pictures damascus has even accused ankara of allowing the rebels to bring chemical weapons into country from this turkish religion at the syrian border you can see texas military base it's

a well secured area with highly restricted access no civilians including journalists are allowed to enter the un they also use a special access roads to get in and out that are also closed for non military vehicles well if even if accusations of turkish involvement in supplying weapons to fighters in syria true it would be almost impossible to prove by supporting the opposition in syria turkey may pledged its loyalty to nato but this has come at a price hundreds of thousands of desperate and green refugees are fleeing from the war zone making the security situation on the border as tense as ever we spend more than eight hundred million dollars for the syrian refugees so it's a huge number now they want jobs in in those cities so it is also somehow affecting the social stability in this region some say turkey

is being used as a proxy by the western and gulf countries hostage to power that's forced to fool the chestnut's out of the fire but there are those who approve of enterprise actions and think turkey should take advantage of that situation if the syrian regime it will be changing and i think it has lost its legitimacy it has lost its political credibility with its own people that the syrian people will not blame turkey of having chosen the dictator in the period when they were suffering turkey feels that this region these close region balkans cocos of central asia and middle east is a priority region so we should be the. power which has him. in all the regions in these were the two recent reports by enlisting international and international crisis group global independent movements the

documents reflect that concern by western and gulf partners over what they call turkey's near autumn and imperial aspirations what these countries certainly don't want is their loyal ally who paid a high price for being a good team player starting to play for itself. r.t. turkish syrian border. the bar winnie government used surveillance software from the u.k. based company to spy on a losing rights activist that's according to documents filed in the london high court by one of the founders of the ride's group bahrain watch the money factories say the program is designed for use and criminal investigations but privacy acts of it say the technology is being widely abused so the program named famous spy can perform a wide range of surveillance operations it was by infection your computer and then recording your skype conversations and social media activity you can also take

screenshots without your knowledge and access all the information on your hard disk rights groups now or hope that dr shahabi is a witness statement on the spyware can force a judicial review on the british government's failure to investigate where the technology is growing and we can now talk to her right now here on our see dr arlo shihab it hello nice to see you how exactly did you find out that your computer was infected by this program. well around this time last year our received four consecutive e-mails that looked suspicious the first of those e-mails i actually did not suspect i tried to open for my phone from my laptop and when i didn't see that the attachment was opening i forwarded it on to a friend who told me that i had sent them a virus so i was very astonished i was both receiving in a disguised form customized e-mails that were trying to install spyware on to

my. laptop and telephone and what led you to believe it was the bahraini government spying on you was the way the emails were disguised as if they were from journalists and were from other activists and then after we discovered after two months investigation of a technical analysis to try and. investigate what kind of information and what this software actually does we discovered there was a company called gamma international which sells this software to foreign governments so we assumed and we given the circumstances in which i received the e-mails and the nature of the e-mails this was a suspect that this was sold to the bahraini government but we also know that the servers. received this information from the software is actually based in bahrain so the servers are currently in bahrain and they're being updated in bahrain which means that this is further evidence that this is

a state controlled operation it's known for u.k. security officials have been advising bahraini authorities for decades do you think the sale of this software to bahrain could have something to do with that. well over the past two years particularly british advisor john yates joined the bahrain security services we have noticed the increase in the use of surveillance and the use of c.c.t.v. and the use of digital surveillance and there are very targeted arrests and infiltration amongst protests activists that are happening using the latest technology technologies and this is all happened since following on from the hiring of the recruitment of john yates and most of these companies that provide all of this technology are british. the manufacturers of this program say its use is tightly controlled do you think that's true or is a just too easy to get hold of. it's very

expensive so you need to have a lot of money and survive this kind of software to operate and to manage and to maintain the use of the software so this is largely sold to. government and or to very large corporations for the purposes of industrial espionage you sure communicate with other rights activists do you think others have been targeted by this software in your country. we know. of others that have been targeted and we promise from discovering the use of the software. in the first place in the process is discovered in bahrain but now we know that that's a six. being maintained worldwide so now that this is a global operation the national has. at least twenty five governments and the use seems the use of the software seems to have no and or any type of

restriction so this is turning into a global phenomenon and it's run by the private sector so when looking increasingly at the commercialization of digital surveillance or right is even scarier because it's very difficult to regulate. rights activist hobby thank you very much indeed for talking to us. more news after the break this is all she does stay with us. manufacturing consent or determining a foreign policy consensus who in washington in the halls of power in western capitals drive foreign policy decisions particularly when it comes to iran israel and syria is american foreign policy in the country's own interest you don't know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly 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 what i'm charging welcome to the big picture. if you. do. this is all she coming to live from moscow welcome back europe's finance minister is up poised to sign all billions of euros

a financial aid today heavily indebted greece and cyprus awaiting for a big chunk from the euro group greece has been relying on cash injections for three years now and it's now expecting the ok on a four point two billion euros on three point three billion is a tranches despite the authorities claiming they are bringing the greek economy back on track and many believe it's paying a to have to price for the help as much in a report. as been three years says greece was granted its massive bailout by international lenders since then the harshest areas he measures have driven the economy into the ground but some claim that the risk hope on the horizon for grace and that it's about to turn a corner let's see now how greece's economy ferrous today compared to what it looked like in the last full year before it needed rescuing starting with the country's output g.d.p. an indicator of the standard of living that's plummeted almost fifty billion euros

in the last three years while government data has thursday by forty five percent so where do the optimists sounds while the good news these measures have improved the country's budget deficit three point eight percent to put that in perspective it's now very close to the biggest so that's why the european union but for the greek people though is the most alarming trend is the unemployment rate that stopped twenty seven percent mostly the country's youth and that's going to get worse four thousand civil servants are being laid off this year alone with the number is set to triple by the end of the next year one expert says no matter how the number is set up now the money will still have to be repaid the greek government is trying to image. it budget deficits by simply slicing the public investment and continuing continuously delaying the state

statements about its directions so in reality if if the greek states. were every monday all those with which they have. this it's so that's why they insist that it does i mean listen it is an attempt to remain within the norm in the . sense not to improve it. so will the real aspects of the. government's agreement the least of all this is the one the recession the very big question the elephant is a room of this size of greek debt. as you know bailout agreements ireland in reality they have increased. that and during an astonishing six years of recession is also having a harrowing consequence so is sizing greece which used to be the lowest rate in euro are rising rapidly mostly among the middle class troublingly people have taken

their lives in public hanging or shooting themselves or even self-immolation while politicians and economists shuffle the figures as the people of greece spain the price with their livelihoods and their futures their healthcare sector is one of the was told by the recession in greece their national health budget has been slashed by forty percent in the last four years largely to meet the bailout targets on his own bottom has been finding out what we're going to repay shows are having to cope with. busy at the counter but pharmacists in greece these days are facing serious sort of fits of medicine and they're worried. that this is. the way to the role what's going to be the. next day price controls and tight cash flows mean many drug companies won't supply them greasers health

industry is denied profits and patients their medicines so for example if you came into the pharmacy with high blood pressure many doctors like to prescribe this medication but dealy says doesn't have enough of it so he has to give this instead and this issue ation is replicated with hundreds of medicines in hundreds of pharmacies across the country. but the charity doctors of the world in thessaloniki patients are in an even more desperate situation must have some docs for him on what i'm really afraid about the future because i have two small children no insurance and i just lost my job to manage this quite as you know i came here because i don't have insurance and the money to pay for my parents some force to come and the situation will only get worse yes. i went to a pharmacy to buy injections for my baby but i couldn't find any so now that i am unemployed i came here. forty five volunteer doctors a week battle with as many as two thousand monthly visits in this crowded space

they rely on donations of medicine donations that are running. people who are very . very serious health problems so tells their. problems they have to get their medicine. every month every day it's very serious for them not to have their medicine if they do not they could die greeks aren't surprised at any of this anymore they've seen crisis and austerity reach throughout their society this new think and makes things even here even more difficult than to put. in even more strain only known the cornmeal strain of greece's economy on greek workers and now on greeks help worsening scars of a crisis that seems to cut have a deeper thomason party. and now for some other news stories making headlines across the globe and first to afghanistan where a roadside bomb lost have claimed the lives of ten civilians left many others

injured in the southern region of come to harm the victims including three children were in a truck which made and an improvised explosive device they were on their way to a funeral of two others who died in another explosion last week no group has claimed responsibility so far however in april the time the threatened renewed violence and what they call that on your spring offensive. just to the south of the obgyn border in pakistan's restive city of quetta a massive suicide attack has claimed the lives of seven people and left countless injured many in a critical condition two thousand kilos of explosives piled on to a truck were detonated and that's hard targeting the local police chiefs residents pakistan has been gripped by a wave of unrest in the run up to its election held over the weekend the preliminary broad count points to a victory for former prime minister nawaz sharif recently returned from exile.

meanwhile europe opposition protesters armed with torturers clashed with security forces on board through police lines during post-election don't stray showers involved various capital just hours before the election three hundred fifty thousand fake ballots was seized while voter turnout at fifty percent members of the opposition to work contesting of reliable results which gave the four prime minister's party a victory to step down and leave corruption allegations mounting economic turmoil just two months ago. and up next piece of ours gaston cross-talk discusses the ins and outs of u.s. foreign policy and how it affects conflicts across the planet.

the illusion of safety trumping you're right seems to be the main political theme of post nine eleven america and no one is pushing the keep you safe at any cost more than new york billionaire mayor michael bloomberg who recently had to defend his stop and frisk strategy after giving a speech to police brass stop and frisk is the practice of just being able to search anyone in new york at any time for any reason with your hands this gestapo style practice has been in place since two thousand and two but thankfully was finally recently found to be unconstitutional by a federal judge you know the fourth amendment all the talk about no unlawful search and seizure seems pretty clear to me why did this take so long to figure out bloomberg despite that silly constitution thing stands firm with this policy to occur and if you end street stops looking for guns they will be more guns on the street and more people will be killed it's just that simple well to that i would say if you stop nazi style first kings of random innocent people there will be more freedom on the streets it's just that simple.