he must stand up his bowl with the words and begin to say that we should not allow all countries to be sexes that manufacture with holes of mass destruction but the time has come for us to remember our values to put right all our wrongs to celebrate our humanity and truly live the belief that each of us is the same parson as all of us who. were was who. if you use only one hand nothing happens but with thousands of hands things will change. why did i protest at all when people are scrounging for work without any freedom they are reprised oh and arrested by the government told me i'm up let me out of the family i. ain't gonna

the military trucks smash the gate and entered the monastery they beat up everyone and destroyed everything they tied up the monks they kicked anyone who looked up. for you know that you know they made the monks crawl to the trucks they beat them from behind until they vomited blood. regardless of our lives we protested we protest for freedom. it's always the what the regime is doing is very unjust getting students and monks in jail as political prisoners. monks were and continue to be tortured and. sit on us military dictatorships never care about the people you do it to us and.

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protest wasn't successful because many were killed. in the past no one knew that the dictator tortured and arrested people need upolu moment we are but we know these of them are you can little idea. who they are will suffer on the revolution and show the world the cruelty of his regime of our you need to know yes that is what all of this is one tangible victory. your government . the notion of what we do as people all around the world have huge consequences. for the extraordinary global mobilizations of february fifteenth two thousand and three when the world said no to war there were somewhere between twelve and

fourteen million people in the streets that day all with the same slogan the world says no two in a hundred different languages it was an amazing outpouring plus some of the guinness book of world records said it was the largest outpouring of humanity on one issue in the history of the world might not by and should face later the new york times wrote there are once again two superpowers in the world the united states and the global public opinion that was huge we failed to soften your. but it did mean that when the war happened no one could deny that it was illegal this wasn't a situation where the us had been able to bribe and threaten enough countries of the un that the un gave them permission. might be an advantage to. be. a. bit like.

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the. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to cause a report on. the latest news in the week's top stories on the u.n. ramps up the pressure on the syrian regime. but russia calls for talks to break the stalemate while damascus promises reforms. iran's oil ministry says tehran is stopping on exports to france and britain amid pressure and sanctions over its nuclear program we'll have live analysis on this shortly here. spills out onto the streets once again because clearly more cuts to secure vital rescue cash in the wake of days of violent protests but top stories this hour.

with a look back at the seven days and the latest developments this is the weekly here. the u.n. general assembly has adopted a binding resolution this week calling on syria's president assad to step down russia was among twelve states who voted against saying the draft fails to address the opposition while damascus is vying for major reforms reports of violence continue. is in syria. this is racially in syria may as well a tie with tensions between security forces and the armed opposition groups continue in claiming lives of both military and civilians almost every day on thursday we attended the funerals of a young boy who was gunned down early here in damascus during the n.t. government protest and the procession itself eventually turned into hostile to mr

ation in the clashes that followed and that continued the next day five people were killed and many others injured one violence one day causes even more violence next day and so on and so on we also can see political murders as well this week shaikh of one of the most of damascus was assisted native apparently because of his pronouncements the shaikh came out with strong condemnation of the terror groups of the armed groups he blamed for the bloodshed calling for to stop the violence to stop the bloodshed we're also hearing about hostilities in other parts of the country reports from opposition activists that in the city of homs many people die every day in the city of hama they've been several explosions all pipeline in the midst of violence these tensions all across syria syria reforms. to go in this week the date for the national referendum on the country's new constitution

was announced the vote is expected to take place next sunday as far as the ministry of internal affairs of syria has said around fifteen million people in syria today have the right to vote this new constitution was drafted. and the monopoly of the ruling party the vast party here in syria had been in power for the last fifty years but people on the ground are actually fearing that this referendum and this new constitution too little and too late this week the chinese delegation visited syria both russia and china are calling for the dialogue to be restored between the syrian opposition and the authorities. saying that this is the only way out of this crisis. while damascus is paving the way for gradual reforms analysts will be easy to appease the rebels. whereas a year ago the opposition as it began was demanding political reforms now the chief

spokesman for the syrian opposition abroad and as far as we can tell the various rebel armed groups say nothing short of the fall of assad even his execution is acceptable so it's a challenge to see how the syrian government will be able to stage are afraid of that will have legitimacy in the eyes the opposition on the other hand the opposition if there's a large turnout of voters that could well be damaging to the claim to really represent the syrian people obviously in many ways a democratic election is the ideal solution to political conflicts but now. both sides have people in fear the consequences of losing and the opposition itself can't really risk losing face by now backing down and taking part in a way to process. iran says it has stopped on exports to french and british companies the country's oil ministry says tehran has other customers which you can send its crude to the islamic republic aims to preempt and in bongo that

set to come into force in july well let's discuss the implications of this with historian webster tarpley he's in washington d.c. and just returned from tehran what is the message iran wants to send by today's move why the targeting britain and france and excluding the more fragile economies in the e.u. such as greece well i think the lesson is first of all that economic sanctions are a game that two can play and turnabout is fair play in international affairs the european commission and the relevant powers have been making a big noise over the past couple of weeks about how they are going to embargo and boycott iranian oil starting on july first well it's pretty obvious the iranians decided not to wait around until july first and if this report is correct which it seems to be they've decided to to impose their own embargo boycott on the offending powers and they're starting with the the two biggest imperialist bullies on the

schoolyard the british and the french who are now so weak that they can only act together they are a kind of imperialist bicycle built for two so they get slammed first they haven't had time to carefully arrange the fallback options and the alternative sources of oil so this is a little bit of a surprise to them it was mooted last week you know with this step was pretty much announced by the iranians and they also included the netherlands greece portugal spain and italy on the list of those who might follow so those are other countries that might might be embargoed by the iranian side now but the way that the economy of iranian oil works is that the biggest customers are of course china japan india and. china has said in very vague terms that they might go along with the u.s. demand that they stop buying or any in oil but i don't think this is widely believed india has stood out as

a country that says they will continue to take iranian oil in large amounts and there been contacts just just last week when i was in tehran there were indian representatives there that were also doing that japan hard to say may be more likely to go with the u.s. italy will be an interesting question whether that country on the verge of some kind of economic chasm is going to be willing to sacrifice itself for this obsession of the ruling elites here in washington d.c. maybe not but webster with iran just talking those e.u. countries at the moment when you actually have an impact on oil prices worldwide something which the world economy really doesn't one of the moment so iran is having a much bigger impact on other countries to well if the world economy doesn't want that they should tell obama clinton susan rice panetta and this feckless gang of of would be imperious we have here to tell them to to cool it to stop it because what they're doing is is heating up a situation and i have to say it is

a very serious situation that we're seeing now is short very serious and isn't that why sanctions are aiming to stop iran enriching uranium will those sanctions not what men if they they cannot work in the sense that the iranians have been under sanctions for thirty years when i was in iran you see a lot of prosperity a lot of economic activity there had been a shock in january as a result of the very stringent sort of secondary boycott sanctions that the u.s. had put in but the iranians will tell you they have lived under u.s. sanctions for thirty years they know how to survive in such a situation i didn't see any evidence of hardship so people said that certain key prices had gone up the bigger issue i think is. the slide towards war and i this we have to take very seriously what we're seeing now with the reckless and irresponsible statements of the israeli leaders these feckless americans who are sort of chime in is

a region sliding towards war and that would be then i think possibly a general war there is really only one international leader with the stature in the authority to take a stand on this and maybe come up with a proposal an initiative to stop the slide towards war that is vladimir putin and i think the world right now is looking to prime minister putin and soon to be president putin in his second term to do something to take to stop this slide we seem to be in some kind of july august nineteenth fourteen situation and we need to get out of it and i think really only russia is the power that has the ability to do that and i hope this this this will occur otherwise we look at obama obama may not want war but he's too feckless to avoid it his administration is full of warmongers we look across that cameron sarkozy the europeans these again are either feckless or devotees of the war party a very very dangerous combination well fresh from a visit to tehran in store and watch the top three thanks very much indeed for your

thoughts on all taken to twenty thank you. coming up in the next few minutes here on the pro-democracy anniversary across the middle east the place gunshots in libya for days of celebrations to the to finish it isn't going anywhere casting a shadow on the country to stability. in another middle eastern country bahrain police strong antigovernment protesters with the help of one of britain's former top cops. at all still to come this hour but first frustrated greeks have been running in central athens once again to protest against ever more a stir being pushed upon them greece's cabinet has passed the final set of massive cuts e.u. creditors demand in return for a one hundred thirty billion euro bailout which could now be cleared on monday but the rage of a beleaguered population is still at the forefront of greek society jacob graves reports. the system under siege m.p.'s drowned out the pleas of

tens of thousands of demonstrators masters in a short passing another round of them popular carts. the results proved incendiary. protests turned violent as protesters including fringe and the kids clashed with police again leaving their mark on athens. the day on this is the remnants of public anger but glass isn't the only thing that's been broken as governments past increasingly unpopular austerity cuts will be left asking who can they trust serve their interests the measures at the heart of the poor people especially and this is the reason that we feel. we today i think. will be taken and it's not going to work in the end it will be another bill.

and. oh i hope for the best but i don't see it coming. under pressure from brussels berlin and the international monetary fund the greek government has cut more jobs and slashed funding for the nation's pensions a minimum wage policy appears to mainly expose those most vulnerable to crisis conditions is a mindset some feel is doomed to fail they already have destroyed the whole generation of young people and their dreams they will destroy the structure of society and infrastructure of the whole country we know that it is impossible to repay this debt that we have now signs that the easy legal or old use we cannot continue like that because the policy that the government is following actually increases the day yeah instead of finding a solution at the heart of activists claims is their search and they've known

austerity for the best part of five years now and that time taxes have risen incomes have full and but the country's deficit only seems to grow and in this austerity cycle is something sought by an increasing number despite the turmoil the governor warms will follow but what is a bad about our political system is the breakup of the right exactly even more. by these third or four. years they are going to come the only way out at this point is the default default is going to be very tough for us but there's going to be a better solution than this slow death for now relative calm has returned to the streets of athens smashed buildings have been patched up the signs of damage swept away by the simmering discontent hasn't been a mass force medicine appears to bring nothing but pain many are continuing their call for terms of treatment jake agrees r.t.

athens. one of the creditors conditions that's roiled the greek politicians of the demands for written guarantees that they will stick to the cuts regardless of who wins the next election your m.p. nigel farrar says athens is losing its sovereignty to brussels. what the e.u. is now doing it's trying to influence the outcome of the greek general election not satisfied with getting rid of the last democratically elected prime minister and putting a puppet in the forwards to papademos it now says it's now saying to the greek people unless you vote for the right parties the less you vote for parties that are happy to be subjugated do you control we will not give you the rest of the money and you will go bankrupt i suspect that despite the dissatisfaction that is felt by many german politicians i think the german parliament will continue to toe the line and continue to say that buy it out so the answer as far as i'm concerned it's rather like saving the cancer and not saving the patients we saw one of the commissioners e.u.

commission early crews said the other day that if greece left it wouldn't be a man overboard situation so even at the top there is now a crack beginning to appear and very interesting really what i've seen in the european parliament is for the first time in years we're hearing real criticism and the socialist criticism is that these austerity cuts are damaging living standards to such an extent that they now want to acceptable so i'm beginning you know i'm not the lone voice anymore in this place but these policies are mad. now you're ferrars they're the euro zone's austerity drive has also hit spain as tens of thousands of people have marched out across the country protesters are angry at the government's labor reforms the largest rally is taking place in madrid the trade unions have organized gatherings and fifty seven cities across the country protesters say reforms were unfair to workers and would destroy jobs the changes make it easier to adjust employees share jewels and wages and have stuff fired last

week some of the rallies turned violent as demonstrators were blocked by police on the way to the parliament spain's unemployment has tripled since two thousand and seven and almost half of people under twenty five are out of work. this week libyans have been celebrating the first anniversary of the uprising that led to the toppling of colonel gadhafi united states congratulate the people while urging the libyan government to protect civil rights and international has been reporting that gadhafi supporters have been subjected to abuse and torture this is concerns grow that libya's militia still roaming the country unchecked ferocious mangi who is editor in chief of the pan african social justice network told r.t. the situation now is much worse than it was during the colonel's regime ever since the major when very of libya there has been. gross human rights violations not just torture there is. indiscriminate

killings there are extra judicial killings there is summary execution of the gadhafi. members of this family who have been some really executed nobody has been pulled to justice or the huge amount of arms that are being poured in by france but europeans by the americans. this place is going to descend into into. the ball civil war the situation now in that sense is worse than it was under the the rule of gadhafi. party life here in moscow this is the weekly still ahead for you this hour we're going voters just two weeks until the russian presidential election we look at how candidates are attempting to attract the electorate. but first it's been a year since another pro-democracy uprising this time in bahrain but it was to gas and rubber bullets that rained down on demonstrators as they faced a to.