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r.t. correspondent sean thomas reporting right there orator straight into the r.t. world out there we go will start with india where the second power outage in as many days there has left more than six hundred million people that's over half the country's population without electricity blackout has left over one hundred fifty coal miners trapped underground after rescue operations earlier pulled out forty six of them india frequently suffers power shortages resulting from its inability to meet the nation's rapidly growing demand for energy. u.s. the secretary of state hillary clinton kicks off a african tour with the first stop in senegal talks will be held on security and the value of democracy as well as china's growing influence on the continent u.s. officials say clinton will warn african leaders about the perils of chinese investment. now several protesters in anaheim california were arrested outside a city council meeting monday as they rallied for a ninth straight day they're demanding the state's top attorney investigate the city's police force officers have

r.t. correspondent maria often otieno who is in syria on the ground in damascus this is what she has to say about what's happening there. the capital damascus since the beginning of the uprising last march has most of the tang been under governmental control and the closest the fighting has ever moved has been in its suburbs in the eastern part of the mask curse in the area known as duma there have been several assaults against opposition hotbeds there but the clashes have never actually taken place inside this city and activists and residents have described was going on in damascus as the most intense they have used violence since the beginning of the uprising last march and the opposition groups have also been reporting that the army has been using more tires and even armed vehicles and how he called theories and has been shelling in the areas where the rebels are this information is very hard to be very far and we're hearing from governmental sources here that a great number of terrorists have been killed during these operations many rebels have been captured and few in number have surre

r.t. correspondent and eyewitnesses and survivors have been sharing their firsthand accounts from a region devastated by the elements as they reach from these stories of narrow escapes and the loss of loved ones. but. a stream of water hit my car i lost control of the car turned over and hit a tree i just managed to climb out of the back door and cling to the tree because that. noise of the rain was so loud there were two children only by a roof but we couldn't hear them we could only throw someone close to them which was good but i am relatives who are in the house including the paralyzed grandmother and a young woman with her three month old child last time we got a call from them they said the water level was almost reaching the ceiling and they didn't know how to get out we haven't heard from many. of course will keep you updated on this developing story there in southern russia as soon as we get more information throughout the day here on r.t. . joy tension and sabotage today all characterizing what so far been libya's first elections in half a century the gangs stormed the polling st

r.t. correspondent abbie martin joins us now live in the studio she has been there on top of it in philadelphia where it has been a scorching hot fourth of july yes indeed it was about one hundred plus degrees very intense heat kind of put a damper on just my energy level above all understandable but you know it was great to see people out there from all walks of life just in the intense heat despite the they were out there really giving it their all so it was it was interesting to see that and so also what was what was the message that they were trying to get out well from what i gathered from talking to a bunch of the people there after the crackdowns nationalized crackdowns sorry federalize cartoons late last year a lot of people said occupies dead it's over and i think what they were doing was really strategizing and galvanizing for of a vision that they can bring the movement to its next phase whatever that phase will be but over the course of five days you saw workshops speakers just a lot of communication and dialogue about what exactly it's all about. one gentleman michael levin ten who

r.t. correspondent i say reports from russia's mission control center in the moscow region from where she watched the safer they've been the all to the international space station for about six months now they had a couple of us simons the two complete as well as some of the mission which they had to complete now this is actually the hundred and twelve mission for the russian space station i mean we're talking it is nine hundred sixty seven here and this mission specifically expedition thirty is actually the third mission on that the more modernize us and one of them that is very notorious is the arrival of dragon now dragon is a commercial resupply ship that's being billed by the space x. company now a lot of these missions in expeditions you know some of them a scientific some of them are research some of them are just going over to make sure that everything at the international space station is working perfectly particularly those such allies that feed out a few of information that you know that tell us a little bit more about what's going on out the in space. now with less than a mont

r.t. correspond to by what say you can tell us more about the rescue efforts in the stricken area a huge operation is underway just what's being done by the authorities to tackle the impact of this disaster. well you know bill thirteen thousand people have now been displaced from these these amazing floods that have just stepped on over night now if you look at the areas that we're talking about you know these are the most hit areas obviously cream sick at the moment but rescue efforts are coming in the most important thing to remember is that these people need shelter more than anything else right now good shelter food warm blankets and clothing and so forth so rescue efforts from helicopters jim riches the services have now come down into that area to make sure that everybody is being supported now thinking about what else could they be needed i mean there's a lot of effort in terms of still getting people out of that water so you know emergency services are still trying to get people out of some of the tribe the areas that have been flooded so that's one of the most important things that they w

r.t. correspondents from a few reporting to read from the conflict zone there first hand before for analysis and the latest think is always available on twitter now xander poincare is in damascus in one of her latest tweets she says the capital's most peaceful neighborhoods are the predominately christian ones just a small snippet of information we've latest lately got through from her go to no more follow twitter the latest news from syria also online as well of course and on artie's main twitter feed. the mandate of the three hundred strong international observer force in syria was extended for another month on friday the unanimous u.n. security council decision followed another vote which saw russia and china veto a resolution threatening sanctions against assad's regime moscow described that western led plan which could have potentially have led to foreign military action in syria as based sorry as biased because it only put pressure on the government middle east academic professor lawrence davidson says if the world community really wants to stop violence in syria it also has to put pre

r.t. correspondent christine for example hello ladies. let's just start with jonah falcon shelley. so this guy i don't know maybe some of you have heard of him before but i'm going to let this video explain who he is for you my name is john i am forty i'm a born and bred new yorker i am an actor and a writer. i have the largest. i have this big one fully are. roughly nine inches tall and soft that's thirteen and a half inches long and. so far joe has apparently the largest penis in the world and so that he was trying to travel and he was stopped and frisked by the t.s.a. because they thought the id hidden package in his pants bulging and get in his pants and when the guard asked about it he said it's my you know and he they said that he gave me a pat down but made sure to go around my penis with his hands they even put some powder on my pants probably a test for explosives i found it amusing and he basically just said that. he's going to wear bike shorts from now on and. that you think the san francisco t.s.a. would have had experience with guys before but i guess not why i would l

r.t. correspondent laura smith goes over the highlights. through which we've exposed the world secrets these jackets belong the united states government being attacked by the united states strongly condemn this question because. it promised an insight into the world tomorrow and in twelve episodes julie and i interviewed opinion formers and activists from across the political spectrum. and with the first guest being has. the program proved it wasn't going to hold back from the get go talking to a man the mainstream media has ignored for six years what we call for serious negotiations dialogue and reform at what they really want to be carried out because the alternative to that no one cause of the first is to somebody inside syria because the sensitivity of the situation in syria they also noticed it was there a civil war in the and this is exactly what america and israel want for syria elsewhere the joined up europe project came under fire from david horowitz in a show that pitted the outspoken right winger against radical leftists. the age

r.t. correspondent sara firth has more from london. this is the biggest release since we had table gate which gave us the u.s. diplomatic cables and a really unique insight into the workings of the u.s. government now the syria files is even bigger than that it's supposed to be eight times bigger than the u.s. diplomatic cable leaked in terms of documents and a hundred times bigger in terms of data now in the same way that we saw the u.s. diplomatic cables released its thought a similar things going to be happening with the syria files wiki leaks have partnered up with different media organizations around the world and they go three comb the data and release this in small stages now so far from what's been released already we've had a very interesting insight into the workings because these are the e-mails that were being exchanged between senior political figures in syria ministry figures corporations around the world the first scene of the really. tallying company had been providing. syrian police and the syrian army know that contra

r.t. correspondent christine freeze out and greg roth social commentator for man on the street d.c. dot com what i was thinking began to. let's start with daniel tosh shall we who i generally think is is actually pretty funny i like watching tosh point no but he's in a lot of trouble right now and it all started with you know will basically rape jokes right people to rape jokes never funny here's a clip of him saying one. i play practical jokes that are constantly though i gotter so good a few weeks ago i replaced her pepper spray with silly string. anyway that she got raped. and she called me the next day going to use. so i've been here there's a girl who went to see daniel tosh and then she wrote about it on her tumblr and said tosh then starts making some very generalizing declarative statements about rape jokes always being funny how can a rape joke not be funny rape is hilarious bubba blah i don't know why he was so repetitive about it but she says i thought provoke because i for one don't find them funny never have so then she had called him and said actually rape jokes are ne

r.t. correspondent christine for is out and that it's a money role calls her on the hill reporter hello ladies hello thank you for joining me from the independence eve yeah independence event like that that i don't know maybe because. we're younger and so facebook you know kind of started when we were younger and like there's certain things you kind of just learned along the way that maybe for all the people out there there's a certain like facebook and a kid that needs to be taught and so this clip actually of this really cracks me up because there's there's people out there who give advice on what you should do here's some advice on posting photos on facebook. there's nothing worse than somebody posting a photo of you with your eyes closed or maybe from years ago when you were a little bit more overweight so my rule of netiquette when it comes to tagging and i say to tag or not to tag if you think it's unflattering don't tag someone it. well most women don't do that. but there is a there's a survey out there that was taken by my memory dot com and they found i guess not but two fifths of the

r.t. correspondent kareen a port in iowa has a story. in the land of social media users tweet tag friends upload and share information at any given moment in the land of the free what americans post online can and will be used against them. according to twitter of the nearly twelve hundred government requests for user data filed in the first half of this year nearly eighty percent came from the u.s. government the michael message company says it complied with seventy five percent of the user data washington requested social media in general twitter and facebook being prime examples of that are a part of an ever increasingly invasive police state in the united states it's not just about surveillance and about tracking and monitoring this is the way in which they're consolidating control in the past year u.s. judges have forced twitter to turn over private or deleted data on users as part of investigations related to wiki leaks or occupy wall street. the ruling according to reports allows prosecutors access to tweets and additional informa

r.t. correspondent christine for south and anthony rand dazzle the rector of economic research for the reason foundation hey guys thanks for joining me alone let's talk gay marriage shall we apparently it's a huge money maker check out this announcement that michael bloomberg had to make. as a result in the past year alone same sex marriage has generated nearly two hundred fifty nine million dollars in economic activity in new york city better includes our estimate of two hundred thirty five thousand hotel room stays nearly thirty two thousand announcements and invitations printed and more than forty six thousand waiting in favors purchased. what do you say i mean i think that you know often there can be. debates that are a little more moral or whatever you want to call it in the country and then suddenly people that you don't expect to jump on the bandwagon do because they come up with a fiscal reason for it right the way that now defense policy suddenly is like well we shouldn't be nation building everywhere because we just don't think that we should be doing that because we can't afford an

r.t. correspondent abbie martin thanks christine well speaking of things the mainstream media well another thing not being spoken about is a vast movement in the works for twenty years really to connect to the various communication and to taste from cell phone to e-mail to online shopping and to draw some straight lines between them one of the companies leading the way in this effort is called new star here's a commercial for that company. help get this customer to your website start by knowing where she is through ip geolocation we know she's in miami which means she might very well be interested in your product so using a local display had moved far away from dreary winter coats and instead of thinking about something that would show off her turn so a little snippet from a commercial for a new star so how exactly does this work our viewers want to live while break this down for us to give us a look at what the really going on here and why it very well may be affecting you. well neustar is a massive telecommunications company the delaware based company was founded back in one thousand nin

r.t. correspondent brings us more. occupy wall street movement many recognize for its boisterous voices makeshift tents and violent clashes with police. who many have said it's on hiatus the sleeping giant isn't going away anytime soon after the crackdowns on encampments across all major u.s. cities many protesters gathered to regroup and reenergize the movement. others have to live bring its message to the encampments have been wiped out. or not as visible but that doesn't mean that we're not working just as hard as we were before behind the scenes the most recent protests kicked off in philadelphia the city of brotherly love consider this is like a convention and people here are delegates for their occupy groups and i have heard a number that there are about ninety two different occupy groups represented here this is the five day gathering for occupy wall street protesters the first national gathering in the entire country since the inception of this movement a gathering in philadelphia on independence day because th

r.t. correspondent has more. america's economy was once like the strongest and fastest roller coaster everyone wanted to ride. but nearly four years following wall street's financial freefall more than fifteen million u.s. citizens lack full time jobs. and employment problem the u.s. president hopes visitors from other countries can help fix more money spent by more tourists means more businesses can hire more workers washington has launched a marketing campaign promoting brand usa all over the world. with a heavy focus on travelers from brazil china and india visitors from all three emerging economies contributed a reported fifteen billion dollars to the u.s. in two thousand and ten part of what's going on in the united states is americans don't have any money anymore and they can't afford to go on vacation and part of what you're seeing is them looking to replace the weak pushed out american middle class with folks from other parts of world where the economy is going better and wages are growing in an effort to

r.t. correspondent abbi martin is on her way to the secret secretive bohemian grove meeting as we speak she is infiltrating the monte rio redwoods to find out what this elusive group will be discussing and who will be there we'll tell you what she finds out plus we went spent a lot of time here on our team talking about the controversial natural gas extraction technique known as fracking and the alleged dangers opposes to drinking water for the community that lives around these sites the reason the method is so popular is because it's supposed to be cleaner greener a cleaner greener way to use to u.s. energy independence or so you might think next week we'll tell you about a group of geo chemists who say it can prove that hydraulic fracturing doesn't fact pollute and is directly connected with water contamination we'll show you the study and we'll tell you how water leaves a fingerprint that can be traced to its chemical source and those are just a few of the stories we have in store for you next week along with more news and in-depth interviews to keep it tuned in to our t.v. . but for mor

r.t. correspondent salaam most affairs spoke to prominent syrian opposition activist michel kilo and here's part of that interview. the immediate come of the talks was pre-determined by the fact that you have on the one hand a delegation from a country where food borne war is raging and a great power on the other you can hardly expect a specific outcome at the essentially we wanted russia to hear us aid because we represent the oppressed people of syria we want to serve the people of syria we protect their interests and we presented our position but i think we were frank and convincing we told russian officials will be needed to hear from various opposition groups in syria for the syrian crisis to be resolved russian assume a well balanced out of russia plays a major role but it should not be part of the problem russia has a long history of friendship with the syrian people the people of syria expect russia to help them gain freedom and overcome the current deadlock the syrians want russia to take a fear approach to be as fair as possible russia should not side with the forces that will sur

r.t. and you can also follow our correspondent on twitter to watch the scenes of devastation and tom barton street as he follows the story from the worst affected area. to other stories here on our team that we're following for you vote counting is underway in libya after its first free national action for more than forty years the general consensus so far seems to be that the islamic parties will gain a majority as they did in post revolutionary tunisia and egypt but journalist resolver it says the militias that contributed to gadhafi is overthrow will play a much more important role than the new national sample. libya considered itself a country even under moammar gadhafi the extent there was organized opposition it was often led by this illness and they're trying to capitalize on that but it's hardly an exercise in democracy because the militias still have the main control and what they do particularly the militias aligned with political parties those forces are not capable of winning elections fairly so they're disrupting the elections and as a response i think i get an interview a lot

r.t. dot com we've got the latest footage and pictures from the zone as well as the timeline of the tragedy you can also follow our correspondents twitter feeds to get more reports from the very heart of the disaster. this is r.t. damascus has agreed to move ahead with implementing a peace plan proposed by kofi annan despite failures and international skepticism the special envoy held talks with the syrian president who earlier accused the u.s. and some of its regional allies of being partially responsible for civilian deaths in his country r.t. zimmer for national has the latest from there. while you're on an arab league special envoy to syria has described his meeting with president bashar al assad here in damascus on monday as constructive kofi annan has sat that they've agreed discussed and agreed on approach and common approach on how to end violence here in syria he has said that if you can only be done and should be done through dialogue and also stress that. all the sides been involved in these conflict should do they have passed to try to implement the six point peace plan brokered by you and april in the back to where

really living in conditions similar to detention those are the correspondent laura smith with an update from london now r.t. has been covering this story since the release of the collateral merkle murder video which put wiki leaks in the public eye as never before and we will continue this story as it develops julian assange and his mother arrived in ecuador on monday and as we speak an r.t. crew is in ecuador following the developments from inside the country and there's much more information coming out so stay tuned. well now there are cyber security bill up for debate today in congress this time it's the cyber security act of two thousand and twelve the bills aimed at regulating the internet has stirred a lot of controversy recently but this one has the white house standing behind it and this bill appears to have some very positive provisions let's take a look at a few of of. ensuring that only civilian agency is not the national security agency are in charge of our nation's cyber security systems another one they're ensuring data isn't shared with law enforcement except in very specific limited circums

knows the country very well eric margolis award winning economist and war correspondent always good to talk to you here live on r.t. thank you for your time. the west paints a picture of russia standing in the way of international efforts to stop the bloodshed in syria the comment from foreign minister sergei lavrov comes as the u.n. security council delays a crucial vote on a new resolution which could see sanctions imposed on damascus if no document is adopted the un's observers in syria would have to pack up and leave all teams were in a port not reports. as a vote on a u.k. draft resolution on renewing the u.n. supervision mission in syria now this u.k. drafted resolution is under chapter seven which means that it also calls for the renewal of the u.n. mission in syria for forty five days but it also threatens sanctions against a mask is if the syrian government does not seize the use of heavy weapons and withdraw from heavy populated areas within ten days as we have been reporting russia has stood firm on saying it will not support any resolution that paves the way for sanctions against syria or anything invo

r.t. has next from a prominent global analyst. i'm sitting down with martin c. a veteran correspondent he's covered foreign affairs for many years one of his latest books is called the politically incorrect guide to the middle east he also wrote extensively about u.s. wash over the nations thank you very much for joining us to see my pleasure i want to start with russia you wrote an article about the magnitsky law the law is supposed to punish russian officials allegedly involved in human rights violations by not granting them us and by freezing their assets here the state department has the full authority to deny the says to anyone they want without any senate approval why this bill in your opinion the senators in question who framed the bill would have pushed it through the committee are. writing a tidal wave of self-righteousness they have imagine themselves to be secretary of state of the united states there is no rational justification for this bill as you pointed out the u.s. state department already and in fact in this case had exercised its right power to prevent forward nationals from entering the united states the u.s. gov

r.t. dot com and also don't forget to check out the twitter feeds from all our correspondents for all the latest on the ongoing conflict and other news as well. the german parliament has approved the use massive bailout fund and ratified a new fiscal pocks which sets tough a budget holes chancellor anglin lago finds herself on a back for good for jack singh suggestions that they that she. had to have a demands of southern states the backlash especially loud in germany where some lawmakers filed a lawsuit saying that they face a pact entries on the powers of german deputies chancellor merkel says she's surrounded by nothing and that any bank rescue would come with serious strains a time but germany's president promises he will withhold signing all thing in legislation pending the outcome of the legal action and dr jacques rogge says that the e.u. has only taken the short term measures and what it really needs is to promote growth. they've decided to do some of the urgency measures here and then kick the can down the road probably for another three to six months before they can actually ins

r.t. dot com discover stories of outstanding bravery and heroism during the rescue and of course our correspondents will continue to provide fresh updates so log on to twitter dot com to access the latest tweets from dumbarton who is at the heart of the disaster. you. download the official auntie application to go on the phone on called talk from the . one. on the go. video on demand. and all registry now in the palm of your. machine on the dot com. syria's president says countries like the us saudi arabia qatar and turkey are hindering peace in his country by supporting those he calls terrorists a shot of accuse washington of being partially responsible for the deaths of innocent civilians by partnering with the rebels syrian army have started a large scale drills simulating the fans against outside attacks some opposition leader as previously appealed to the west for foreign intervention against the regime but as various and often are reports from syria manning of the country are fearing for their lives if the rebel forces get what they want. while since the uprising in syria escalated the west h

r.t. from damascus and syria. peace efforts at the geneva conference are just talk says asia times correspondent pepe escobar who believes the rebels and the parties backing them only want regime change and they are unable to lay down arms station because from the best two months they have been heavily weaponized by ball saudi arabia and counter so just like the original coffee annan plan it was bound to fail from the beginning what is being discussed in geneva he's also bound to say it's for show it's to tell the international community which basically is a few nato countries the us israel and always lead the russians and the chinese and the bric countries are not full by it and most of the developing world they're no nonaligned movement nobody's fooled about it what these main players for in glee of swan's regime change in syria they have to pull some wool in front of the international room to so they have a coffee an unplanned they have the geneva discussions and it's absolutely ridiculous because the only little buggers doing fights iran and saudi arabia which are both major players in the syria situation it's ridicu

r.t. dot com you can discover the stories of outstanding bravery during rescues being made of course our correspondents will continue to provide the latest updates you log onto twitter dot com you can access the latest tweets from artie's tom barton in particular he's at the heart of the disaster. if you. download the official auntie application joy on the phone oh i pod touch from the top story. on the. video on demand. and. now in the palm of your. question on the dot com it is not just talk of ten minutes past the hour here in moscow this is a minute of silence in memory of those who died in the disaster in russia's south open president vladimir putin's meeting with the country's ambassador and boys today at the gathering a president put an ally in the country's foreign policy priorities artie's sean thomas i was following the address social and certainly a quite a number of aspects of various aspects to russia's foreign policy what did the president have to say can you break it down for us. we'll certainly rory this meeting is that with the rushers on basters and foreign ministers and it's the pres

we'll just have to see how this pans out live in london our correspondent laura smith thank you very much. i also had for you this hour here on r.t. a shocking discovery in a russian with new evidence is on the failed in a gut wrenching story about barrels with human fetuses found in central russia. plus more arrests and how. california has riot police watch over a mob of protesters still fuming after police shot and killed two suspects earlier this month. russian anticorruption campaign an opposition blogger. has been charged with embezzlement he came to the public's eye when he led mass antigovernment protests in moscow this past winter and charges against him have caused a storm in russian society our teacher groups are standing by to give us more details on this now so jacob what exactly is in the valley accused of and to date what's been the reaction to this case. probably known as an anti corruption blogger in russia this crime actually dates back to way before and this hasn't always been the case indeed the charges of embezzlement day back to two thousand and nine this is when he said to have advised the local regional off

sure thomas is our correspondent there now for more normal stories that we've brought you take a look at our web site r.t. dot com we're reporting there now how the london olympics isn't exactly welcoming everyone from around the world the belarusian president being denied access to the games will tell you why but r.t. dot com and it's a big no from the n.g.o.s as the heads of groups here in russia are threatening now to boycott but a new law has been brought in a bludgeon them to register as quote foreign agents unquote find out more about that as well on our website. this is r t thanks being with us wiki leaks editor julian assange chosen been sitting idle while he's been holed up seeking asylum in the ecuadorian embassy in london he's been bolstering his legal team in a big way signing up now the human rights lawyer who dated the late chilean leader or goes to pinochet artie's or a smith explains what that means for sanchez case now. what his team is constantly trying to do is keep him in the public eye and this is certainly a significant development that this spanish judge and lawyer has are costs on

and lows in the history of doping and the olympics are to correspondent liz wahl came up with a list so let's give out some of our very own r.t. awards to commemorate. well we'll start our award ceremony with a few honorable mentions these are teams we think at least deserve a shout out the most prominent the german olympic team who could forget those athletes pumped up bodies in the country's huge olympic medals hall despite having less than twenty million citizens thousands of these german athletes were given steroids and what a german court later called a systematic and overall doping in east german competitive sports these german sports doctors gave athletes anabolic steroids and testosterone when they were as young as thirteen years old the drugs cause side effects like cancer organ damage infertility and more and we want to give an honorable mention to the united states track and field team more than one hundred athletes including nineteen medalist from different sports tested positive for banned substances from one nine hundred eighty eight to two thousand but somehow they were cleared by internal appeals processes and

pleasure to have you on the program asia times correspondent wish we had more time for this we don't but many thanks indeed. thank you thank. you watching r.t. live from moscow now the german parliament will decide on whether to hand over one hundred billion euros worth of rescue cash to spain's ailing banks chancellor angela merkel has been actively lobbying for the transfer hoping to rally enough support but as artie's are pretty or all of our reports an agreement to grant money to the e.u. neighbors certainly will not come easy. german chancellor angela merkel addresses m.p.'s just behind me to garner their support for further bailout funds for spain's ailing banking sector that without that support that money can't be released from the german treasury now speaking on german television the chancellor seems confident saying that we always get the majority that we need however there are rumblings of discontent among m.p.'s here in berlin we saw a minority vote against the new bailout fund that minority coming from angola merkel's own center right coalition we've also heard from the opposition social democrats who have told mrs merkel that

r.t. managed to catch up with a man who want to twice before four time world champion prost the frenchman in moscow last week or correspond to top off the top to him as well. every time i. made a promise to this year except the last two witnesses i was more than oh so it's very very difficult i still think he's going to be of it or finale i thought that mcclellan did much. last in the ground and maybe finish in the third still because. i think the call is a bit better but also a source strong in the head at the moment i knew i was sick enough and i love sebastian but i. could be world champion i was with. me. when i was sure for him. it is something as it does change a lot in the last five years compared to what we are the now generation for example . it is part of some of the. it's it's part of the game that the economy is more and more difficult so it's more difficult for the teams and. man a little bit more balance because it's a new sport it's a new era. i'm obviously i really prefer the. formula one or the new one on my period but on the other side. very often i ask questions myself and said if we had more or less th

this friday we're going to have more from our correspondent peter all over who is following these developments as soon as we can get him on the line here in r.t. meanwhile as shelling continues in the syrian city of holmes a u.n. monitor admits the violence in the country has reached on president of levels more than one hundred people have been killed in the last three days our correspondent marie if a notion i heard heavy artillery herself as she toured the war torn neighborhoods of homes. in this part of hundreds maybe back on the syrian army control but their patrols never stop soldiers are searching house to house they're looking for terrorists or snipers but that's not what they usually find. some people in their homes became their grades too and this room look human bones but at least one person. who seems to have been burned to death. in the next house we find three more charts call's. have to disclaim up to eighteen thousand people have been killed since the uprising began sixteen months ago the u.n. estimates around ten thousand we have no way of telling if these remains or others like them were even counted at all. the bomber used t

if you can a correspondent in washington they're just reminder will show you again our full interview with parade was ousted president fernando lugo next hour here on r.t. well so more about this now and bring in the conversation that nicholas kozlov is author of a revolution in south america and the rise of the new left nicholas thanks for being on r.t. says he didn't have any choice but to leave but if he had climbed on to power would we have really seen massive bloodshed do you think. well i think that it was playing a very dangerous game i think that to pursue an independent foreign policy in latin america is does not carry does not go over very well in washington and we know this clearly from the wiki leaks cables that express the u.s. diplomats and express displeasure lugo's independent foreign policy specifically for forging links with who a child was a venezuela and bolivia as well so i think that and also the. question u.s. military involvement which was extremely controversial so i think that. it's not clear whether the u.s. played a role specifically in the impeachment i'm not claiming that but if you asked me whether the u.s. had a motive p

of the few international correspondents still reporting right from the heart of the fighting and get photos from the scene and firsthand impressions of the notion of underscore r.t. . well let's discuss now the latest resolution on syria and what's been happening there with her she's a syrian activist and blogger she's a frequent online commentator on the events shaking the country judy concerns for her safety resources not to reveal her exact location now in the number of your previous interviews you've stated that the u.n. observer mission in syria was serving of the purposes then bringing peace to the water on country what do you mean by that me. well you know distinctive missions of this u.n. peacekeeping was to find a piece who resolution for the conflict but even with the russian amendments the u.s. and the g.c.c. countries and turkey want to use this mission to be armed and regroup the insurgency and to some extent it's a sixty you know the syrians have counted up multiple weapons out the border and weapons that the militants have been using have been advanced so the same time you know there has been dozens of buying missions by the insurgents of all the