and although it is expected to pass there's a growing social opposition in germany to the bailouts artie's talks on a boycott explains just where that resistance is coming from. it's a job interview with geopolitical implications and yes his family has been running these greek restaurant for almost three decades ever since they immigrated to germany hard work and self-reliance made it a success but now they're under increasing pressure to share the fruits of their labor. the problem is that in greece that. they come here and like. in the street but we are also working very hard. working from the morning till night every day they get a dozen of calls from their greek can patch shirts with requests for money jobs of both some like. takis just walk in a restaurant owner himself he lost his business last year and ever since has been out of permanent work like about twenty two percent of greeks there is the second world war and destroy. our country from troops so they'll be a million people. not to help but. while references to the countries nats of past have appeared more than once in the grea

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down in syrian air space earlier reports suggested the plane was taken down by the syrian military artie'smarie if in a marine if an osha is following developments in damascus. prime minister has sold to the media and they have they need some people that he'll be able to shed light on friday's events but in fact he said that god has only said that remains in the who happens to the to fish plane and the only thing that is clear and that he has confirmed is that the plane is missing and rescue and search operation is right now on to go in mr everett god has also said that the reason new information about the crew earlier we've been hearing from local media from regional media that's a took two steps has been shut down by syrian forces here in syria not far from the country's middle train and pulled over the top here who've been hearing from sources here in syria that two pilots have been captured then you suppose the turkish allegedly. comes in they also will be hearing from arab and american officials that a group of cia officers these right now based in the southern parts of turkey not far

this and other stories always available at our website artie dot com you can check out what else we've lined up for you as well for example drop dead gorgeous some other hefty ballerinas put in artistic military display through the eyes of the bolshoi theatre is the lead choreographer. and quit smoking in a shot in new york the lab develops a vaccine to help you kick the nicotine habit and find out more on that at our team dot com. well facing a possible energy shortfall in the coming years britain is looking for a boost here with no money to develop nuclear power alone it must try and seduce foreign investors it's a decision though that has many wondering if the u.k. government is putting profits before safety as i see sarah ferguson plans. britain wants to keep the light switch done and to do so it says it needs nuclear power real to security thing and that has to be security of supply and we don't want to have our securities of supply be hauled into over twenty three before to do that or on the way forward we're. going oh but we must look for another. energy distribution energy and

do everything they can to win the ongoing war in their country the latest now from damascus with artie's maria from. this is the strongest statement from president bashar assad since the uprising began sixteen months ago and i have to say that things that are indeed dramatic here on the ground the conflict is definitely escalated fault mold in one hundred people have reportedly been dead in the last in just the last twenty four hours and earlier on tuesday the rebels attacked the president's elite republican guard just a few kilometers from the mask a center and in the night before president bashar assad's speech before a new cabinet we've been hearing the sounds of heavy explosions and intense shelling and opposition activists to have late to colditz in the poorest day of clashes between the rebels and governmental forces say this is the uprising began last march the government. later after after what happened on tuesday that a number of terrorists have been killed many of them have been captured including foreign nationals but we also hear in about a dramatic arrival just from the mini

town of already revived their old currency to help businesses arrive by the economic downturn as artie's laura smith reports their experiment has softened the blow. in the middle it's a blast from the past as this comes to may uses the irish punt to pay for some every day purchases in the town of cleverness on and joined the fray from the get go in two thousand and two but crisis hit business saying is hey you have revived the old currency to try and desperately clewiston cash back into the community if you bring in pointed to us twenty point whatever you spend our fifty point five you spend we would give you a change of tone this time vouchers which you can then go and spend cross the road and supervise you on the create no ten or go for a drink up the town it's it's a great scheme for the time it means all the money remains within the town as for the euro here it's been reduced to a novelty item printed on tissues and toilet paper and customers come from miles around to spend that puts off and stopping by for a haircut while the hair oh yeah definitely a lot of people come from across

arty moscow. while there are always many more stories available for you at r.t. dot com including for example the twitter taking a stand against so-called internet trolls anonymous profile with no picture or personal information could be blocked from tweeting in order to stamp out hate messages. plus for him state duma considers plans to label n.g.o.s that receive funding from the board as foreign agents therefore having to disclose their full activities to the public. live from moscow this is r t just a moment on the world update but for now there is just a day to go before a full e.u. embargo one iranian crude exports over to iran's nuclear program takes effect but says america's latest set of sanctions kicked in on friday the u.s. however has granted china and singapore last minute exemptions from financial penalties for buying iranian oil as follows earlier waivers to more than a dozen other countries which include japan india. but unlike most of them china has always been opposed to u.s. unilateral sanctions on iran lawyer and activist but it must offer he s

officers injured and criminal cases filed against those who started the trouble well i've now to artie's grieves for more on this so. we're at the starting point what's happening where you are. still seeing people in large numbers arriving behind me at this starting point for the demonstration now there's definitely in the thousands highest twenty thousand have to bear in mind here does tend to be some discrepancy between the claims of activists and the claims of authority when it comes to numbers at demonstrations now and in the past normal less doesn't seem like they've reached that fifty thousand has been officially sanctioned for this demonstration just yet and that's going to be the key question is can they. chief that as for those in attendance we already know that. head of the left front while he has arrived in attendance he talked opposition figureheads and when it comes to the others well we've got those from the left the communist party they've been maybe making their voices heard also from the far right as well nationalists indeed even the ultra nationalists we've seen those d

against its southern neighbor while damascus says it acted within the boundaries of international law artie's marie if an ocean reports from damascus. turkish president has tried to justify the potential crossing of the syrian border by turkey's fighter jet but saying that it's a routine for warplanes flying as a such a high speed to cross front here from time to time for short distances since the beginning syrian military officials have been saying that the plane deeds and to the syrian air space and did violate didn't break the border regulations and they had no choice but to act according to international law and ico in the turkish president they've also been stressing that they did the plane has been flying at a high speed but also it's a very long haul to today and this is the case they say when the plane tries to import a defense system the turkish side is also not reporting the rescue and search operation is now in to go in in the area in cooperation with the syrian side and of course the investigation continues but took each president has been equally in his prime minister who thought

right artie's jacob graves live in athens thank you for that update. a fresh attempt to find a solution to iran's nuclear issue will be made in moscow on monday as we report a little later. with a group of six world powers and tap preparing to sit out the window share. but there is a third party that's trying to stall the process find out who that is in a few minutes right here on r.t. . on thursday the u.k. supreme court dismissed julian assange latest appeal to reopen the case against his extradition to sweden the judges voted unanimously dismissing the bit as being without merit they will give weaker faces to sweden where he is wanted on sexual assault charges a soldier who has been under house arrest in britain for some five hundred days says the case is politically motivated and that his final destination will end up being turned however it now seems that he won't be the only lowered to face a crackdown artie's sara furthur reports on a bill being debated in the british parliament which if adopted could discourage people from exposing the truth of

after being blacklisted by baltic states police as a so-called threat to national security artie's with border investigates what's really behind the motion. which is on the line from moscow one pm in the russian capital i'm marina joshie now u.n. observers in syria say they can't confirm the details of the latest massacre in the country the monitors have investigated the scene of the killing but are unable to determine how many died or who's to blame several bomb blasts and gun battles have since erupted across syria hand in the capital damascus from where our correspondent for national reports. damascus last night has been hit by what some have been describing as the heaviest fighting between the rebels the opposition the opposition and the governmental forces we've been deed been hearing sounds of explosions and how we shall ngs and separate shootings for several hours nonstop and as it's become normal for the syrian conflict we've been hearing conflicting reports on exactly what happened and why this occurred the london based syrian observatory for human rights have been saying that

moscow has denied the claims but said several ships are ready if needed to protect its syrian base artie's marie a few national reports from damascus. we are hearing from the chief supervision mission here in syria that the more interests have suspended all the activities in the country the main reason is an increased violence we've been we witnessed in the last few days that posed a significant risk for around three hundred monitors here in the country and has actually been impeded in their ability to fulfill their mandate here in syria indeed we've been seeing dramatic escalation in the last few days with increased number of rebel attacks on the syrian army checkpoints at the same time we've been seeing that syrian government has given too much freedom to syrian army to deal with that u.n. observer is they were sent to syria in mid april to monitor the implementation of coffee and six point peace plan here in syria the cordon to this plan ceasefire was supposed to take force on april the twelfth but instead we've been seeing and creates number of attacks from both sides international off

there are also numerous accusations of ballot rigging from rival ahmed shah phoenix headquarters artie's policy areas and kyra. talking to demonstrators as well as talking to those who actually turned out to cast their ballot the general mood is that most people feel that this is really a choice that is not a choice you have a mature freak who represents the mubarak era and you have dr mohamed morsi who represents the muslim brotherhood and the idea of turning egypt into an islamist state visiting the polling stations throughout the course of the day i did get a sense that people there were very tired of this whole election process at the same time those that i've been talking to say that they are not that enthusiastic that everything will go ahead without any kind of mishaps now we do expect the official results to be announced on thursday although we anticipate that we'll get some kind of preliminary indication as early as monday morning the verdict turn out half way through this weekend election stood at the fifteen percent mark if indeed it does not reach the forty six percent voter

peace plan but kofi annan also urged the increasingly aggressive rebel forces to lay down their arms artie's marina porton has more. after hours of closed door consultations members of the security council and the secretary-general ban ki moon have come out first mr obama ki-moon saying that kofi annan says six point peace plan to stop the violence in syria remains at the center of the international community's efforts clearly nobody has calling this plan a failure and at this point nobody is indorsing any type of military intervention into syria the most important thing right now according to the secretary general is to keep syria from going from a tipping point to a breaking point joint special envoy for the u.n. an arab league mr kofi annan also has said to the media that what needs to be done now is for the security council to under stand and to come up with a plan in the best way to implement his six point peace plan and that is up to the security council to work out and decide while the security council unanimously recommitted its support for the kofi annan six point peace plan washing

after being branded a threat to national security by a stony artie's eastern european correspondent i like sarah shares q went to talent to look for an explanation along with a number of other russian in estonia and politicians he was put on a blacklist by security police after a series of reports he did about some of the country's policies here's his investigation into the events every time i traveled to a story i always enjoyed the wonderful hospitality the food and the sightseeing of this baltic country from the journalism point of view over the past several years i produced several stories on social and economic issues here but i never expected that my reports from a store near would be regarded by some as a threat to national security. every poor to buy the country's security police stated that my last three stories had an anti estonian tone and had nothing to do with the reality that is despite the fact these reports and rising neo nazis and punitive new language law and the economic problems in the country featured prominent politicians and think tanks we went to the capitol ta

in an exclusive interview with nbc news arty says that claim is completely false.bet with your friends? >> not at all. that was absurd. i don't know who would lie about something like that. i have made no bet with none of my friends. >> reporter: arty, a talented musician, who has been playing the piano since he was 5, says he believes his classmates followed him after school to catch his park pda. >> who would do this and why would they do this? i never did anything bad to anyone for them to do something like that to me. >> reporter: arty says he hasn't heard from her since the story broke. >> i don't like what's happening to me or her. >> reporter: because arty is an adult she isn't facing criminal charges. while she reportedly denies she is in the photos the department of education told nbc news, quote, yes, that's her. reassigning her to an administrative desk job pending the outcome of the investigation. now the teachers union says if she is found guilty of sexual misconduct with a student she will lose her job. we reached out to her and her family for comment

press secretary jay carney will be joined today by education secretary artie duncan and richard cordray, head of the consumer protection bureau who will talk about college student aid and transparency. while we wait for that to begin, remarks by maryland governor martin o'malley, chairman of the democratic governors association, the keynote speaker at new hampshire's democratic party convention on saturday. we'll show you as much of his remarks as we can as we wait for the start of today's white house briefing. ♪ >>> good news. you all seem pretty fired up here in new hampshire. yeah jp [ cheers and applause ] it may be rainy and cloudy outside, but it is warm and fired up inside. great to be in new hampshire. >> [ applause ] >> senator, for your very kind introduction and recognition of the pornd and meaningful things the people of my state of doing. doing a great job for the new hampshire democratic part, ray, thank you for doing this important job. new hampshire is critically important to our country this year. [ applause ] i also want to thank first vice chair clark, second vice cha

has demanded the rebel and government forces allow the evacuation of civilians from combat zones artie's more of an ocean of reports on how syrians are dealing with the ongoing bloodshed. this is how human skin looks after it's been burnt by an electric cable mostafa shows us the fresh signs of torture an ardent supporter of syrian president assad who was kidnapped in his native city of lip. popular not being held me for three days being all the tired they told me is because you don't support our revolution rubbish they didn't care about the revolution either all they wanted was money but they contacted my family as two million syrian pounds for me is this what they're fighting for. most of us wife sold the house and scraped a half of the ransom and father for mystifies now looking for money again to hide his family model narrative of this revolution if you want to call it that encourage criminals of all current these people they listen to what world leaders and me repeat that assad is evil and start thinking that they have the right to do bad things to all those who serve with the presi

authorities already have the knives out for the australian the wiki leaks founder program here in artie's apparently awakened the interest of the f.b.i. with one guest on the show even stopped and interrogated by agents bringing up to date on the story of softening his artie's ghani to chicken. u.s. officials say there is no indictment against julian assange but apparently the u.s. is going after him after all in their quest for evidence they might hear watching the sunday shows here on our t.v. or else of how would several of the show's guests end up interrogated about the we keep leaks founder in this week's episode features one of them that's jeremy zimmerman an internet freedom advocate who's based in friends at the airport traveling from the united states to friends he will stop by self identified f.b.i. agents and questioned about julian assange that we can leaks website says mr zimmerman was threatened with arrest and imprisonment when he asked about his rights this all happened after his interview with mr arsalan where they talked cyber security and freedom in the face of ever exp

us some reporters have accused the police of acting outside the law to suppress the media freedom artie's anastasio chookie now reports. but. dramatic scenes unfolding in the u.s. a must cover vent for journalists but the idea i showed them. apparently that wasn't enough for the new york police his press past feeling to pass the test this reporter got arrested while covering the occupy wall street protests no muss no fuss officer just. something. and i just. tried to tell him that i'm a journalist. people out my state department. whether i have your police or unfortunately that's one expired keil writes for daily russian newspaper and has worked in the us for the last three years i don't prove you have they don't really care that it's just you just business and you credentials can't really protect you sent through a whirlpool like legal system the seasoned journalist was treated as a protest participant under arrest twenty four hours behind bars a quickie trial six hundred dollars in fines were his punishment for doing his job covering the news of the day and then there were the two days

british police the moment he steps out of ecuador's embassy where he's been holed up since tuesday artie's elena myleene church has more from ecuador's capital quito. all along the sun has been claiming that he's case was politically motivated denying sex crime allegations which he's wanted for questioning in sweden and it's exactly those claims of political nature of the case that are being tara we looked into hearing that whether or are there still no sign that of the season is on the way now president rafael correa says ecuadorian authorities are assessing if there is a real tried to a songes life the latin american leader has stressed that ecuador rejected the penalty so if he finds there are strong grounds to songes fears of being ultimately extradited to the united states he might decide the whistleblower needs protection if you want to hear police or of what we have to see if there's any death threats against julian assange you have to analyze his reasons for requesting asylum if he's had due process here in ecuador is a country that rejects persecution for ideological motives no yo

to pay for said treasures however experts now claim roughly half of all work sold today off fake artie's laura smith caught up with one russian collector who's happy to say the forgeries he was tricked into buying. very important works of art go under the hammer every day in london's west end but how can i love as be sure of what they're buying according to scotland yard a staggering fifty percent of all art sold is fact what we're looking at these days is a very considerable increase in faking of twentieth century art i've seen a number of provincial auction houses and. so fakes. a considerable scale and i think it's something that we we will accept a lot of forgeries that will say sold on websites but it's not just internet by is he could be taken in by default which is crush the latest auction house to come into the spotlight with christie's which is involved in a high court battle with russian tycoon victim. he paid more than two and a half million dollars for a painting he thought was by prominent russian artist buddies cousteau is yet to find out later that it appears to have been

expansion in the asia pacific region artie's a lecturer jet skis in beijing for us. it is the first state visit to put in as russia's president to china something that each president of any country can do only once during his presidential term definitely many experts have already been saying that the fact that. china as one of his first destinations to becoming russia's president for the third time means that russia and china will continue to be very strong strategic partners the main focus among all the media and everyone here was at the for invective the relations between beijing and moscow and certainly the two leaders have reconfirmed that they have unified stances on most of the issues they touched upon the growing concerns in the asian pacific region namely certainly the growing a military presence of the united states here and that's where. both said that they have a unified stance as well as mentioning the events in north africa and in the middle east basically we do understand as well that russia and china have a unified position on the syrian conflict and t

artie's mind broadcasts. r.s.s. feeds now with the palm of your. question on the dot com. russian opposition activists launch another mass rally here in moscow with a reported twenty thousand people taking part right now but a high nationalist turnout is sparking fears the demo may not run this peacefully as intended. united nations observers report a sharp rise in rebel attacks on syrian forces as nature's own chief instead of possible armed incursion regardless of un backing. israel begins implementing its plan to expel more than fifty thousand african refugees as what's seen as a racist purging policy deepens in the self-styled away sister of democracy. and convenience costs your confidentiality today's julian assange show on our t.v. this hour he is wiring evidence of firms prying into your previous see on. three pm here in moscow welcome if you just tuned to a c watching r.t. with me kevin now in and first russia's opposition is now finished a mass march through central moscow which is a major gathering in the capital police say up to twenty thousand people are there

behind regime change in some post soviet states let's get the details of what the ambassador said artie's jacob greaves is following this story jake up what exactly did michael mcfaul have to say. bust a russian made this statement into a crowd of students in moscow now importantly he stressed that the. current u.s. and british administration the obama administration has played no part role in backing any of the opposition movement or pushing for regime change in russia but when he spoke of previous administrations before obama then he alluded to them pursuing some form of regime change when it comes to the former post soviet state so here we're talking about some of the color of illusions the stress color evolutions that occurred in a century russia's back door states like ukraine out there between two thousand for two thousand and five or so mass protests taking place there was widespread speculation a time the u.s. may have some form of involvement they may have been backing some of that protest movement eventually led in two thousand and five to the storm and of a new president after

human rights violations as well as claims of racism most recently from the dutch national team is artie's kate partridge. the issue as you say is not really about sports so much in football it's about politics because the u.k. governments have joined the french government in saying that they will boycott the tournament during the group stages this is due to the alleged mistreatment of the imprisoned former prime minister yulia timoshenko. well the u.k. government as i say on the back of the french government and other high profile e.u. withdrawals and threatened with drawls over the alleged mistreatment the situation here is not really just about political controversies that seem to be dogging this tournament but also about social issues and as you say racism has become a particular issue a dutch team based not in ukraine there brace in krakow in poland just before they come into play they gave and they have they've had their training session and apparently they were subjected to racist abuse while they were on the pitch which is a sad incident on the reports after they went to see auschw

history the charges lawyers are hoping to dismiss however as artie's medina koch never explains some leaks seem always to go unpunished. from a former cia officer who question waterboarding to suspected we keep small bradley manning the obama administration has wastes an unprecedented war on whistleblowers prosecuting more of them under a span ash loss than all previous administrations combined but it seems one man snitch is another man's spin doctor the problem with the current situation with the current white house is they have leaked classified information for both times what it serves them to do so one of those was what was wrong with the book obama's wars done by bob woodward where they played out two chapters of information about current operations and also with the catholic bigelow project regarding seal team six takedown of ben lauder last year at this time the film in question which is titled as zero dark thirty covers last year's raid by u.s. commandos on the pakistani compound where some of bin laden was hiding the conservative watchdog judicial watch has obtained records

artie's jacob griefs thank you very much for that update. we give these founder julian assange is awaiting a decision from britain supreme court over his request to reopen his extradition case it comes two weeks after he lost a previous appeal against being handed over to authorities in sweden where he's wanted for questioning about sex crime allegations as large as lawyers claim the european arrest warrant was invalid because it was issued by a prosecutor and not by a judge or a court as required by u.k. law now if this motion is rejected as fans who denies any wrongdoing can still take his case to the european court of human rights his supporters believe that sweden might not be his final destination and it's just the step toward sending him to u.s. for prosecution on charges of espionage. meanwhile julian assange is just one of the targets of a possible clampdown on whistleblowers which is gaining momentum the british parliament is currently considering a bill which if adopted might to tear people from coming forward and revealing serious

dozens of police officers injured and criminal cases filed against those who started the trouble when artie's agrees is across the story in central moscow for us now jacob the run is due to start in a couple of hours are there any signs of activists got through starting point. here was thing really a steady flow of people arriving at this. has been officially sanctioned for fifty thousand people the key question is can they amass those numbers now they failed in recent similar protests may the six again the march of millions. of estimates their master around eight thousand people in attendance that was marred by violence through clashes between protesters and police largely blamed on the fringe element of this opposition movement that has been twiddly in support really ever since those presidential elections the results were announced reship a day in terms of people hours on the street just after the parliamentary elections abuse allegations of electoral fraud some of the key people have played roles in an organizing this we're told by police yesterday in raids now. about the anti corruption

well and now let's get to the business with artie's done a bushell standing by for us. good to see you daniel angela merkel has sensationally been forced to go back on her word show news what all of you are getting some initial claims that she's agreed to a common euro bond that today's e.u. summit in brussels now that marks a real shift because she was categorically against that just this morning more and more economists say common boring across the eurozone is the only way to bring down low on course for greece and spain the first sign of a shift by germany came a few hours ago when finance minister wolfgang schauble said he would agree to a euro bond perhaps on the table if there was total fifty or union across the eurozone. but across the pond the problems are even worse the california stalks and is expected to file for bankruptcy tomorrow that will make it the biggest city . in america overspending and the collapse of its housing boom are being blamed because the problems are for more serious than europe's claims chief or mona prodi j.p. morgan trader the long way

up next artie's interview with u.s. economist and politician mark weisbrot telling r t what he thinks his what he what he thinks is going wrong right now in europe. i. thank you for joining us on r.t. i want to start with a g twenty promised to boost the i.m.f. lending resources with over four hundred thirty billion dollars. yet the i.m.f. steering committee said that these resources will not be used for a particular reason do you think this is their response to the concerns that this money will be used to bailout the eurozone i think it's clear the reason they're asking for a new resources for europe they would have enough if it was for the other countries it's only europe or the big money i mean the deaths of spain and italy are enormous and that's what they're worried about even if there were only portugal and ireland and greece. they wouldn't really be that worried it's really spain and italy that's what the money is for. and he talked to the contrary it's just talk the rest of europe is also contributing to this bu

the vote their main rival left wing syriza came a close second with just over twenty six percent artie's jacob greaves is in athens . places official results showing new democracy out in the lead hovering around thirty percent of the vote now they are still ahead of some reason but only just this still presents new democracy though with a problem because even though it looks like they'll win this election they won't do so with an overall majority so they will need to seek the help and coalition partner of another party the only real option for new democracy at the moment seems to be perhaps of the socialist party who they have governed with before askers they both share the message of austerity even though pasok party would like to see some major changes to the bailout deal struck with the i.m.f. the e.u. and eurozone troika now pasok are also presenting their own problems because we're seeing reports at the moment they may not be willing to function with new democracy without the inputs of so reserve because they have had such a significant sway when it comes to these elections indeed e

saw dozens of injuries to protesters and police with criminal cases filed against the ringleaders artie's peter over reports . we saw tens of thousands of people demonstrating on the streets of moscow they came from all across the political spectrum in the country from the far left sue far right extremist groups i have to say the the nationalists and far right groups were amongst the the largest in attendance now while i was take walking with those demonstrators along that route i did see several amongst the group of nationalists wearing variations on all nazi uniforms including one woman wearing a take on the s.s. uniform including a a banner around tehran bearing a russian nationalists symbol of course these people did come from all across the political structure as i say they came to voice their displeasure with the russian government this demonstration went off incredibly peacefully i didn't see anything like the violent clashes we saw during the previous protests in moscow in may of this year now then we saw the demonstrations really hijacked by radical groups and we saw clashes whic

an arty reporting from northern lebanon. and a top level top of europe president putin this week patience to let the coffee and un plan come into effect in syria he was speaking ahead of a meeting with top e.u. officials who have now arrived in petersburg and they've got a lot to discuss as irina explain. was it puts in his first stop was in minsk which many saw as an indication that that russia's foreign policy now will focus more on the closest neighbors and the c.i.s. countries many observers also saw this visit as the beginning of the suppose at the land of economic and eastern bloc now off you went afterwards to berlin on a whirlwind visit which lasted for only half a day was going to put an end german chancellor angela merkel who seemed to see eye to eye on the matters concerning syria now earlier in the week u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton said that russia is aiding to the troubles in syria by continuing to support the regime of president bashar al assad to which of course their action president prepared a res

man march next week but it looks like the movement is unlikely to live up to its former glory as artie's jacob groups reports. it's been dubbed moscow's take on the globe who occupy movement. in america canada and around the globe we've seen protests is bearing down in their thousands here it never quite reached those numbers more people need to do these because most of them just come to us in the weekends and in the evenings were the support and continued game of cat and mouse with the city's police has taken its toll this all star protest the moscow was only started up a short time ago it's already is the court seems to be dwindling. for those with to come out and visibly show their support numbering fewer and fewer we're talking about tens rather than hundreds more often than not and what's left is a hardcore few struggling to keep this movement's alive like occupy elsewhere this has been organized online and epitomized by their encampment but that's about where the similarities end rather than demonstrating against perceived social inequality this is principally about one man in char

reveller trucks that is for persistently handing assad back by often contradictory soundbites as artie's attacks are sort of explains for some it's part of a first strike perfected by decades of practice. images like these. and words like these innocent civilians were beaten imprisoned and the violence protect civilians are often what have preceded military operations in the name of stopping brutal killings by hardened dictators and while authoritarian regimes are not devoid of responsibility for atrocities the story often ends there especially when leaders of intervening countries have to justify their wars to their people it's depressingly easy to sell a war it's almost becoming a habit actually even in spite of. the lies told over iraq the same stereotypes crop up again and again and again regardless of who or what kind of regime is being attacked whether it's a secular regime or a religious one to the viewer it's about the good guy bad guy it's about saturating us over and over and over again with the same images now here's what they're good at satisfied the viewing audience without

islamist dominated body and allowed mubarak's last prime minister to stay in the presidential race as artie's policy or reports from cairo more protests are on the way. mood here in cairo is volatile left wing activists as well as liberals the youth sick and many in the muslim brotherhood are outraged earlier there were demonstrations in front of the constitutional court and now as we speak crowds are starting to gather in tahrir square the off wage is really because many egyptians feel that what has developed here is a carefully maneuvered plan by the supreme council of the armed forces scaf to remain in power looking at a decision that was announced yesterday just two days before an important presidential runoff and according to that decision the islamist dominated parliament has been dissolved in addition to that which i think is backed by the army and was also a prime minister in the mubarak era has been given the green light to remain in the presidential race the decision also reverts just a simple forty back to the ruling military and the military really holds executive authority in thi

putin begins his visit to the middle east he's currently on the first leg of his tour in israel where artie'spolis leader is following the talks. russian president vladimir putin and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu have been holding a meeting at the prime minister's residence in jerusalem both leaders said that the talks had been frankenfood full and the most significant point made was the point made by the russian president calling on both israelis and palestinians to resume peace negotiations the israeli prime minister responded with this quote that it was complicated but simple and that word president putin peace paulson that message tomorrow tuesday when he meets with the russian when he meets with the palestinian president mahmoud abbas mahmoud abbas in the palestinian city of ramallah now police have also said that the two leaders had discussed syria and iran and he didn't go into more details in saying that the talks were fruitful and he thanked the israelis for the unveiling this morning monday of a rule morial to the raid all me that was unveiled in the israeli city of the

arty. lesser corso with the business. news that merging market currencies taking a bit of a hit. absolutely in fact in the last around fourteen percent of their value and all the details in about two minutes but first let's start off with the equity markets and first to asia work trade started about twenty minutes ago and as you can see. europe is in the bread with the foot sea shedding around a quarter percent and germany's dax now losing more than half a percent within the first twenty minutes of trade and here in russia the situation is also not very optimistic as you can see the r.t.s. is now sharing around three quarters of a percent of the my six losses are a bit more modest to but that's following pretty have to last. on friday when the r.t.s. . was down around two percent becoming the worst performing emerging markets and now a quick look at some of the biggest movers on the my sex they include the financials mainly v t v as under pressure as you can see also the energy sector including gazprom and bucking the trend is flagship air carrier air flight it's gaining more tha

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right artie's policy your reporting live for us from cairo thanks very much for that update. well from the pitch to the pub excitement over the euro two thousand and twelve football championship is reaching its peak and so's the drinking this weekend season in england play its second round match up with the country's bars set to be packed emergency services are taking all the proper precautions as r.t. sarah for reports from london. i. leave. and they use the tickets they'll be in a better place to catch the game than down the local pub watching football in the pub can be absolutely fantastic it's a great big communal shared experience and many great games big hundreds of people there's not been an ounce of trouble just a fantastic atmosphere and if you can't be there a lot of people feel it's the kind of the next best thing certain things like england knights we were always at danger it could turn ugly but when it's right is a wonderful way to watch football having a pint in the game is part of english drinking culture and thousands of books. whenever a match is on. the ball

putin starts his visit to the middle east the first leg of his tour in israel is where he begins with artie'spaul asli are along for the ride. both leaders said that the talks had been frankenfood full and the most significant point made was the point made by the russian president calling on both israelis and palestinians to resume peace negotiations the israeli prime minister responded with this close that it was complicated but simple and that word president putin please paulson that message tomorrow tuesday when he meets with the russian when he meets with the palestinian president mahmoud abbas mahmoud abbas in the palestinian city of ramallah now police have also said that the two leaders had discussed syria and the random this comes amid ongoing way critique from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu russia recently hosted the latest international conference that dealt with the question of whether or not iran was building nuclear weapons and indeed that those talks had no breakthrough russia is of the opinion that they can be no attack on iran and certainly that any kind of sanc

leg of his mideast toward just after talks with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu we have artie's poll of clear on the line she now joins us with some with the latest i should say paula what does come out of this meeting between the two leaders in jerusalem. well the russian president vladimir putin and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu have been holding a meeting at the prime minister's residence in jerusalem and they've just finished a short press conference in which they highlighted the essence of what those talks were bald both leaders said that the talks had been frankenfood full and the most significant point made was the point made by the russian president calling on both the israelis and palestinians to resume peace negotiations the israeli prime minister responded with this quote that it was complicated but simple and that word president putin please pawson that message tomorrow tuesday when he meets with the russian when he meets with the palestinian president mahmoud abbas mahmoud abbas in the palestinian city of ramallah now police have also said that the two l