a top story on a massive kills at least fifteen people including children outside a hospital in the libyan city. police in the u.s. a hunting for a group of gunman who went on a shooting rampage a parade in new orleans injuring nineteen people. and spyware made by a british firm has allegedly been used to activists in bahrain we hear from a rights campaigner over the intrusive surveillance methods being deployed in her country and top stories this hour.

on screen international news and comment from our studio center here in moscow a car bomb has exploded in libya's second largest city benghazi the blast went off in a crowded area outside a hospital a middle east correspondent has more on this. as many as seventeen people have been killed and dozens wounded including children there are of course fears of the death toll will further rise what we do understand is that the car bomb exploded in that call pocket of the main emergency out jalen hospital in the eastern libyan city of ghazi according to the libyan deputy interior minister totally destroyed a restaurant and seriously damage in nearby buildings now doctors inside that hospital say that it is there was only one body that arrived in texas and that makes it almost impossible to meet at the established than establish the number of people who have been killed i witness and say that people were hysterical beggars

running about people were literally kicking body parts up off the streets now people are angry and there's a lot of calls within the social media for libyans to take to the streets and express their anger and march and demonstrate but they're almost just as many calls for libyans to stay at home because the situation outside is not safe at all what libyans are also tweeting is that while we have seen a string of attacks on local police stations over the past few days in benghazi this is something completely different to attacking embalming a crowded hospital which is of course a public place now the security situation in libya has remained precarious ever since the former libyan leader moammar gadhafi was overthrown on sunday they were two bombs targeting benghazi police stations there have also been a five attacks in total over the last month on benghazi police stations this comes amid an increase in foreign stocks withdrawals on sunday the b.p. oil giant announced that it was pulling all non essential stuff from its libyan

operations and this was based on the advice of the u.k. foreign office on friday evening washington announce that it was pulling some of its nonessential indices staff out of the country and it was also putting e.u. based rapid intervention troops who are currently based in germany on high alert the u.k. foreign office is also announced that its removal. some nonessential diplomatic stuff because of security concerns and political uncertainty over the last few weeks up we have seen is that in business both in tripoli and also in libyan ministries has been blocked by militia who have been demanding a no banning gadhafi officials from government. as we just heard a spate of attacks and growing instability continues to plague libya geo political analyst patrick henningsen from twenty first century why dot com says the u.s. strategy to ally itself with radical groups is backfiring in libya and across the region there's been i have read them out of active by western

intelligence agencies during the gulf war in libya in macau there are you know of course that culminated with what we saw on benghazi last fall when the u.s. had gone in trying to eliminate some but potential leadership in the. libyan government it's a broken off each militias basically. to radicalize some of those groups over the last two years or so but it's a recipe for chaos and it's really sad because libya has got. a challenge and or have some semblance of lot of order in the government in that country right now the whole north african region is awash with various islamist radical groups and i'm sorry to say that this is a u.s. administration that is allied itself with the islamicists and now they're having

trouble training to be created. and you can track all the latest developments in benghazi on our web site right now at all to don't call and we've got video footage the witness accounts from the scene of the blast altie local. police in louisiana hunting down several gunman who opened fire on a crowd drink mother's day celebrations nineteen people were injured in the broad. street parade in new orleans. the details so far they have been no arrests announced but we do know that the new orleans police department has released grainy surveillance video they released that early monday morning showing a possible suspect in connection to the mother's day parade shooting in the footage you can see the crowd suddenly scattering in all directions with some falling to the ground it appears as though parade goers are running from a man who turns and runs out of the picture and the person is wearing a white t. shirt and dark pants the image isn't very clear but police are still hoping that

someone will recognize the perpetrator and notify investigators police posted a series of still images from that grainy video on you tube as well there's also been a ten thousand dollars reward offered for information leading to their arrest and indictments in this case now law enforcement officials believe that more than one gone was fired sunday afternoon now by sunday evening a law enforcement officials were speculating that at least three people were connected possibly to the mother's day parade shooting and f.b.i. spokesperson characterized the shooting as street violence with no connection to terrorism now the victims from this shooting includes ten men seven women and a boy and a girl both ten years old children were reportedly grazed by bullet but they are said to be in good condition at least three victims however were seriously wounded this is connected to the ongoing debate in the united states over gun control

a debate that has this country's. actually divided look what u.s. president barack obama wanted to do with his legislation that failed in the senate was that he wanted to enforce tougher background checks on people that were attempting to buy a weapon now if investigators in new orleans ultimately find the weapons that were responsible for the shooting and they find out that those weapons were not registered were not were not sold to the people that use them or the people that use them got them illegally that goes back to. the gun control debate that goes back to what many want to do in strengthening access to firearms is have the proper procedures for people who want to buy a firearm so it's not clear yet if these guns that were used were illegally obtained but if they were that speaks to the debate that is ongoing in the united states that is sensually still getting a lot of attention but not much traction when it comes to enforcing more gun

control. the idea that britain would be better off and some of the european union is gaining ground with prime minister david cameron's government the defense and education secretaries of mills said they would vote for the u.k. to leave the bloc if a referendum was held right now on the surface reports from london. this is going to look to many like the prime minister struggling to maintain control of discipline amongst his own party a for the e.u. if you know we seem very senior figures within his own party education minutes the michael going to come out and say that he feels that there could be benefits to leaving the event that sentiment echoed by the defense secretary philip had and he said that he'd vote to leave 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 for

a new benefit to britain and now there to cameron the prime minister's actually had a statement where he said when he's responded to these statements from senior figures and he said that he does seem to think there's a swing in the town even before 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 with a student with a majority in the twenty fifteen general elections that there was them to be in out referendum by twenty seventy all three of those 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 predominate they 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's oglethorpe's he 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 in voicing its discontent over policies in germany despite the government's determination to keep the european union united there are now increasing signs of division in one of germany's largest provinces varia a separatist movement is gaining momentum spoke with a leading advocate of their own independence wilfried show nagual who explained why his state is losing patience with germany's commitment to the e.u. . very has always shown solidarity and we continue to show solidarity even during the european crisis if we bear

a large share of the burden but i'd like to ask if the e.u. has provided the first bailout a grace the second bailout for greece but. millions billions and billions but if i ask the german people whether they believe they will ever get even one euro back they will all say no that's why i thought the politicians are aware of that and they just pretend like they're not but the worst part of this is that millions and millions of greeks you can be a really between a rock and a hard place that you don't benefit one bit from all these bailouts i don't know anybody who's ever say anything from the beginning that there's greeks you don't have jobs you don't have any income will be did you don't know how to provide for their families their situation does not approve of this move something's wrong with the system at first at the time one more thought about greece except for the politicians say the greece is only two point five percent of the economy so my question for my fellow politicians is limbo how can two point five percent bring the entire one hundred percent to ruin.

it. and that interview in full a little later today here on r.t. the leaders of britain in the united states are pledging to increase pressure on president assad in syria the syrian civil war has been the main focus of their meeting in washington on the heels of talks with russia earlier this week let's get more now from our he's going to judge. joining me live there in washington got a you've been following the talks tell us more on what's been said so far well bill the u.k. prime minister is in washington as well powers are gearing up for a conference on syria that would bring representatives of the syrian government and the syrian opposition to the negotiating table president obama david cameron spoke about their hopes for syria they reiterated that they want outside gardening and they want a transitional government to be put in place david cameron is here after talks with the russian president last friday at russia's black sea resort of sochi and here's what he said about this new round of international efforts to mediate

a solution we welcome president putin's agreement to join in efforts to achieve a political solution the challenges remain formidable but we have an urgent window of opportunity before the worst fears are realized there is no more urgent international task than this we need to get syrians to the table to agree a transitional government that can win the consent of all of the syrian people but there will be no political progress in less the opposition is able to withstand the onslaught and put pressure on assad so he knows there is no military victory so we will also increase our efforts to support and to shape the moderate opposition britain is pushing for more flexibility in the e.u. arms embargo and we will double normally full support to the syrian opposition in the coming year armored vehicles for the armor and power generators a right to be shipped. but moscow and washington announced last week that they

would be working to bring everyone together to find a political solution to the syrian crisis but the success of the conference this upcoming conference much depends on whether everyone will be pushing in the same direction that hasn't been the case so far as the u.k. prime minister is pushing to live the arms embargo although he was not he was it was kind of. this news conference saying that the u.k. has not made the decision on whether or not to arm the rebels but we do know that he has been pushing really has been a very strong proponent of arming the rebels two weeks ago the u.s. said it was considering arming the rebels directly so far the u.s. sort of with a silent nod has been watching its allies among gulf states as they supplied arms to the rebels moscow says flooding the conflict with more weapons will not bring about an end to violence to the violence in syria but will lead to more bloodshed in said instead the turkish prime minister is also coming to washington this week

this thursday and he's pushing for aggressive action in syria including or means the rebels sort of hospital political solution could be undermined on several fronts probably the most important of which is that the syrian opposition has not come out in favor of such a transitional plan that would be negotiated with the government with that with the government experts agree that the alternative to the political solution is the prospect of a political vacuum in the event of the government collapse and the rise of islamic extremist groups going to thanks very much indeed it's going to we're going to check on there live in washington this is all to you coming to you lawyer from the russian capital with you twenty four hours a day still ahead this hour bahraini activists as you can be made spyware is being used against human rights campaigners in the gulf states you keep can hear from her after the short break stay with us.

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news continues here on r.t. the government in bahrain has used surveillance software from a u.k. based company to spy on the leading rights activists now that's according to documents filed in the london high court by one of the founders of the rights group bahrain watch the benefactress say the program is designed for use in criminal investigations but previously campaigners claim the technology is being widely abused the program named fin spy can perform a wide range of surveillance operations it works by infecting your computer and then recording your scant conversations and social media activity you can also take screen shots without your knowledge and access all the information on your hard disk or rights groups now hope that dr hobbes witness statement on the spyware can

force a judicial review on the british government's failure to investigate where the technology is going she spoke to us earlier on this and said the use of digital surveillance has been spreading in bahrain ever since the former u.k. police official john yates became security advisor there. 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 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 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 in 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 happen 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 now we know of at least thirty six so being maintained worldwide so now the this is a global operation gamma international has sold this software to at least twenty five governments and the use seems the use of the software seems to have no any type of restriction so this is turning into

a global phenomenon and it's run by the private sector so we're looking increasingly at the commercialisation of digital surveillance which is even scarier because it's very difficult to regulate. europe's finance ministers assigning of billions of euros of bailout loans today heavily indebted greece is counting on a huge loan to prop up its ailing economy cyprus has already got the green light for the first three billion euro installment of its bailout that was agreed in march after tense negotiations with international lenders greece has been relying on cash injections for the past three years and is now banking on get another eighty tranche worth four point two billion euros it's also seeking approval for further installment of three point three billion euros later this year well despite the greek government's claim that the money is bringing the economy back on track many believe that the country is paying too high a price for that help. over reports. 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 surged by forty five percent so where does the optimists sound 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 sets by the european union but for the greek people though of 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 asking the public investment and continuing continuously delaying the statement about its direction so in reality if if the greek states. were every monday all those with which did. we get this is so let's wait and see is that it does i mean listen it isn't damage to remain within the norm in the. sense not to really prove that. so there are real aspects of. government's economic policy our policy is the

what is the recession the very big question the elephant is a room of this size this. is you know bailout agreements ireland in reality they have in greece. greek debt and during an astonishing six years of recession is also having a harrowing consequence so it's i think greece which used to be the lowest rate in the euro are rising rapidly mostly among the middle class troublingly people have taking their lives then 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 the healthcare sector is one of the worst hit by the recession in greece the national health budget has been slashed by forty percent in the last four years largely to meet e.u. bailout targets has been finding out what ordinary patients are having to cope with

. busy at the counter but pharmacists in greece these days are facing serious shortages of medicine and they're worried. that this is. the way the. 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 actuation 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 or what i'm really afraid about the future because i have two small children no

insurance and i just lost my job to manage the squad as. 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 last. 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 from people who are very. very serious health problems such as they don't know jack and 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. and you can more strain on me no moon because to me strain of greece's economy on greek work has a no one greeks help listening scones of a crisis that seems to cuts of a deeper thomas and. that's it for me and the news team for the moment of the break a look at one of the world's most dangerous professions in the hearts of coal that's next. the illusion of safety trumping your right seems to be the main political theme of post nine eleven america i notice pushing the keep you safe at any cost and lot 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 declaring 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 sam paul 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 but that's just my opinion.

is the is of the soviet union a time of massive change stalin dreams of a modem industrial nation and he wants to fast but to do it he needs few. lenin once said coal is the bread industry and during the soviet union the miner was held up as a shining example of what a worker should be tireless ready to sacrifice himself for his country and the

hardest workers of all were here and siberians cruz boss region taking the coal that would make everything from steel. to record. the us is estimated to contain more than seven hundred billion tons of coal and the mines employ more than one hundred thousand people i wanted to meet these men and find out just what it takes to work in russia's coal basin on the first lesson they learned is how to keep themselves safe from. the most profit this year the six six seven m. life support system is designed to protect the lungs from gases in the event of a violent explosion ok even if you have smoke around you but you know.