video on demand. among old girls. just for you. to. call. stories like shape the week here on r t diplomacy verses thirty years since the uprising began syria remains a powder keg with peace efforts they are being challenged by war propaganda and terror attacks. a loving father paul in the tragedy of the media's take on being the u.s. soldier accused of turning us leaking out again village into a bloodbath that washington once again apologizing for the actions of its military . anniversary restaurant called all street protesters as get more heavy handed releasing leads many wondering if western nations part as the democracy they preach .

thanks for joining us here with r.t. where we bring you a news twenty four hours a day three people have been reportedly killed as a car bomb exploded in a residential area in the syrian city of aleppo there were similar attacks on saturday in the capital damascus which killed twenty seven people and injured over one hundred others our middle east correspondent paula slayer has more. state television is reporting that the car was parked in a residential area not far from a security building now according to police the car was parked behind a security barrier and a tow truck was in fact on the way to tow the car away when it exploded at the same time witnesses on the scene say that they heard an exchange of gunfire immediately after this car blast today's blast is the last in today's syrians are

gathering at the site of saturday's twin blasts which killed some twenty seven people in damascus the capital city this blast on sunday is a third loss in two days and it happens in aleppo as i said the same city where on the tenth of february some twenty eight people were killed also in twenty blocks that targeted the security building so there has been this string of suicide bombings happening in syria over the past few weeks and months and the opposition also calling for mass demonstrations in syria on sunday to mark the one year anniversary of the uprising against the syrian president bashar assad the actual date was thursday and on that day there were huge demonstrations throughout the country parallel to this violence on the ground there is a different kind of war that is taking place and that is the information war with many people saying that what happens in terms of how networks are covering the

syrian story is nearly sealing the conflict as my colleague reports. clashes in the streets of syria have been raging for a year now but behind the scenes there is a media war that's just as damaging as they want to get syrian lives refeed claude's freelance investigative journalist from damascus says he's found what he thinks is proof of media manipulation of the conflict in syria in this video from the syrian town of holmes the camera focuses on the city's all the refinery the shooting begins. seven hours before media viewers around the world see a pipeline explosion allegedly caused by assad's army bombardment you can clearly see that something is slowly burning in the distance when the smoke has thickened english speakers correct their cameras position for a better shot of what's going on they shake it to make it look like amateur video with any common latest video the receiver it's clear it's not an explosion big

movie and people reporting it the way they need to see it. in another video from a hospital in homes someone behind camera talks to a doctor and the corner we see a little knock him. when he should tell bashar good will punish you and then talk about his wife ok let's or he will again after some thirty minutes awaiting the crew starts to get nervous and let's go a little bit here maybe the whole raid know we need al-jazeera wildlife and al-jazeera eventually the girl will forget some details. punish you the shore and your children in this footage we see danny holmes activist known for his exclusive reports from the very epicenter of the conflict history pairing to go live on c.n.n. he's relaxed and calm. and there is no shooting until he asks for it was sadr choose a target. no worries just do it. or

. solution i say the whole gear. tell them are some buildings collapsed and we're taking buildings away. he did it could be a miniature hunger again and yet in the last hour or two. we had two hundred dead love reality nothing. really good the big deal you can see i can. to become journalists try to my patients as hard as possible. to produce but not everyone is happy about it the politics of the channel were changed with the word. on high. leftist and progressive voices such as mine we're not going to be that's welcome anymore obviously the qatar is that decided to shape the picture of the news a little more than me is jewish always

a mistake. well known walk correspondent only husham used to report to al-jazeera from the world's conflicts hot spots but syria has become the rubicon he couldn't cross he mentioned armed groups fighting they came stuff starts army and his bosses and the heart felt he needed education he has just resigned because of biased coverage he says assad were like you know promoting lucian's or leave. egypt. for example the revolution in bahrain and saudi arabia this is just a proxy it's a proxy used by by its third party by some sort of government by us to fuel this war. with more and more proof emerge in all the international media is involved in the arab spring revolutions the question remains open to what extent they influence events and how much responsibility do they therefore share for what

follows. r t beirut lebanon. to talk more on the string of explosions in syria's major cities i'm joined live now by a beirut based political analyst after all martin sharpie well a lot of glass is the third in two days and follows the same pattern as the earlier attacks is there a possible connection between them and what message are those responsible trying to get across. yes it's still it's still a bit early to give. a conclusive vision on what happened who is responsible because he investigation is ongoing and we should wait for the results from the city and tradition or that our source to do this using all the forensic experts using all the legal processes that are required however one can clearly see that the objectives realize that the objectives of these explosions that are coming within two days two explosions are in the capital and then this explosion today in

the second largest city in syria this shows that there is an intent to actually destroy or create obstacles to the initiative by the former secretary general of the united nations kofi annan who is acting on behalf of the united nations and on behalf of the arab league and what it sees the support . at least the verbal support from the russian foreign ministry mr sergei lavrov supported the initiative by kofi annan and the rest of the international community also. to support this initiative mr kofi annan talk to the security the security council and urge the security council member to take a unified stand to support his initiative now these explosions actually show the needs of the success of this that announcement i mean although perhaps the

objective seems to be to destroy or to create obstacles to his initiative this reversed kind of. indication this shows that there is an absolute need for this initiative to succeed and therefore that the international community should supported as mr lover of. called recently however mr lavrov also recently asked the western powers to actually pressures. the opposition to. not to escalate this situation and not to create more violence. i mean perhaps the message was that yes the russians and the chinese have the syrians to to try to maintain. remain calm and not to create more and more trouble in syria we need a period of of ceasefire in order for the dialogue to start this is an absolute necessity these explosions are clearly. actually create problems through this

process. and i started interrupt you just tell me very briefly how well the syrian government response to these attacks what should it do to possibly further prevent these terrorist strikes from happening again. yes i think the only thing that would stop the violence in syria is dialogue between the different groups in syria and that's an absolute necessity now what can it do it first it should investigate these attacks it should make sure that the investigation is. judicial independent investigation that would come out with a credible bizarre not politically motivated but that just two words having a full investigation based on criminal justice principles. that i think there is the resilience of science and that's all the time we have thank you for joining us today beirut based political analyst dr amarna sharpie thank you. still to come

in a few minutes a grieving mother and an angry europe. when you believe they can intimidate or do anything to silence me since if they fool she's confession as to convicted retro bombers are executed in bellerose relatives as well as human rights groups say their trial was too quick to be. short on money emotionally traumatized and down on his luck father of two all part of the media's profile of an american soldier accused of carrying out a massacre in southern afghanistan sergeant robert bales has now been flown back to the states by the u.s. military i made calls for him to face trial in afghanistan and as you can reports in his wake come yet more apologies.

sixteen innocent afghan villagers slaughtered in cold blood aunt nine of them children u.s. officials are going out of their way to present the american surgeon to apparently committed the massacre as just one bad apple. this incident is tragic and shocking and does not represent the exceptional character of our military and the respect that the united states has for the people of afghanistan this is not who we are in no way does he represent the. ethics and morality of the american serviceman and service woman and i think afghans understand that but afghans don't seem to be buying that at all. the rage and humiliation felt by afghan people appear to be way beyond what apologies can make up for pay for heard them all before in the last few months all too often and each one very similar to the next just weeks ago the white house apologized for the burning of the copies of the koran by u.s.

troops an incident that triggered a surge of violence this was a deeply unfortunate incident that does not reflect the great respect our military has for the religious practices of the afghan people and weeks before that in january apologies again over footage showing u.s. marines urinating on dead afghans but these actions do not represent the values of the vast majority of coalition forces of the nations on ripley contrary to what u.s. officials say some analysts believe that those incidents are symptomatic of how the military operation in afghanistan works it is increasingly the case that this is looking like. a brutal occupation which is killing a large number of afghans were afghans film selves humiliated insulted and incidents like this will be regarded as a simple list of exactly what is wrong with the american occupation it is an absolutely cynical operation to say that they don't sleep. in afghanistan for another three years how many more people will die how many more incidents like this

the only solution to this is to bring the troops out and then for these for these governments the stoppings of a name in countries where they have absolutely no rights when the very copious apologies handed out by the administration don't seem. even to appease war critics back home let alone the afghan people but what of the whole idea of in aiding a country in occupying a country and disturbing their country creating hundreds of thousands of refugees and suffering there is it ever get to a point where apologizing about the korean is rather minor to some of the other problems that we have created the taliban has that it will take revenge and analysts expect a fresh surge of violence children shot in the head women slaughtered it's incidents like the latest soldier's rampage in afghanistan that extremists of all kinds used to it new people to their ranks those new recruits go out to kill not

even the most heartfelt apologies can change the minds of people dead set on revenge it becomes a vicious circle that breeds even more danger spreading far beyond the borders of afghanistan i'm going to shift our reporting from washington. the afghan government and public now demand a proper and prompt investigation not with the accused facing trial but anglais as our assistant editor at antiwar dot com says u.s. soldiers have a history of escaping punishment for their crimes. it's likely that the u.s. will prevent such an investigation such a trial because of all of the other incidents where they have let off easy. u.s. soldiers that commit murder i mean the massacre in iraq where nine u.s. soldiers killed twenty four iraqi men women and children. none of them were convicted except for one who was merely demoted to the rank of private and he will serve no jail time i can go on and on like this these things happen and the u.s.

prevents actual accountability for the perpetrators it's almost as if murder is a lesser crime if it's done by someone in a u.s. uniform it's still to come this hour the price of health. crap to find out the e.u. hungrily hides china's three trillion dollar cash pile policies that savvy beijing may sound. but two men convicted of last year's deadly bombing in the belorussian capital have reportedly been executed there's not a national confirmation except state media reports and a court letter sent to one of the men's mothers she believes her son was scapegoated by the authorities. when you do they feel they can intimidate the police into silence but my sense is they full face confession and explain plan if

investigation and trial i think they could he thinks he's in longer going this is then revenge on him and me nice from the very beginning of human rights observers have questioned whether or not the men were given a fair trial this is just the last straw in the already strained relations when values say in the european union in fact a lot of the human rights organizations are the servers along with the chairmen off the european parliament has requested to the bill or should president alexander lukashenko to grant clemency to the two convicted men but those requests were i disregarded in fact a lot of the european out of the european human rights observers and officials have long been looking in belarus and questioning the officials approach it to human rights freedom of speech and their treatment off the opposition this has in fact to lead to diplomatic crowd after bella was pulled out it's a vast areas from several of the european countries and in retaliation the european union has also recalled all of their ambassadors from belo rose and the european

union foreign affairs chief catherine ashton already said that she strongly condemns the executions and she was seconded by the chairman of the european parliament martin shultz hit also said that he is horrified at the news and this is just about as it to worsen the situation and the relations between bellers and the european union even further. reported. dozens of people have been arrested in new york are scores of protesters marched to mark occupy wall street six month anniversary police swept through the birthplace of the movement in zuccotti park hundreds of demonstrators began to tense over the past six months occupy rallies nationwide happened worktop leasing with the towns and tear gas and small protests but the actions are in stark contrast to washington's words in condemning other nations which strong match its idea of democracy as wearing a fortnight explains. the u.s.

and its european allies have many things in common security politics and a familiar practice of scalding outsiders about the pillars of democracy the running people have a universal right to assembly and free speech this is the precincts approach of human rights in the world democracy is a big step towards democracy rule of law human rights these are our founding is and we believe these must be respected by the egyptian authorities in russia we've seen crackdowns on civil society groups as western leaders wag their finger around the world. wouldn't the times in brutal force have been used to quell public protests at home. right police handcuffs and iron fists have repeatedly been used against unarmed demonstrators in greece spain and london where thousands flood the streets to

protest against austerity measures and unemployment they should focus on getting their own house in order and practice what they preach rather than noticing about you know other countries and trying to you know grandstand on an international scale rather than deal with you know they are there are very serious democratic deficit on the other side of the atlantic uprisings against economic. ali and corporate greed have left countless occupy wall street activists covered in blood temporarily blinded. and behind bars the movement is currently planning to drop tens of thousands of demonstrators to the upcoming g eight and nato summit in may. but this week the u.s. military is unveiling its latest non-lethal weapon to members of the press. it feels like opening up an open door almost next to the from about my sternum to my.

new active denial system can repel crowds using an electromagnetic beam that delivers a blast of intense heat up to one kilometers away without a sound a smell or even a warning the weapon promises to disperse crowds and reinforce security while the military weapon is in currently intended to be used by police critics say ray guns like water cannons could eventually be rolled out in the land of the free we are seeing an intensification of repression because people are challenging the system and challenging it in europe a challenge to get in the united states and it's easy for our leaders to point the scene or somewhere else rather than take responsibility here in america do anything differently lecturing others are democracy and human rights has become a brand of western foreign policy that just force that means to be based on the highest of standards but as we sit here and it's

a lot easier to scold others when everything is fine. these protesters if. you're interested in seeing europe might suggest that their leaders to a homework before attempting to be a teacher of democracy. are artsy new york. and we've got plenty more lined up for you on our website r t v dot com you can have there for the latest news and comments here's a. well it's already all mine. is your friend yawning along saying the late night well don't be fooled by the excuses chances are he's a terrorist or at least that's according to a new parenthood is shared by the u.s. on land security. at the emerald isle entertainment i'll cross the capital joins hundreds of thousands of people around the world celebrate st patrick's day the festival of footage is out partying dot com. this week on the

global bank payments network swift to cut links with iran as part of the tough economic sanctions employed by the u.s. and its allies they hope the pressure will force them to abandon its nuclear program which is suspected of pursuing military goals but the standoff is driving oil prices up writing already weak european economies like spain and greece who relied heavily on around supplies for enron's crisis management specialist paulo rafal says it will find new customers rather than change its stance. used. from the news. is already making agreements with india and china to. currencies of other systems and so what will not be sold to europe will be so although the issue of iran is something that comes from the united states and

europe follow because there is no way out for you a part of the reason is to try to facilitate the negotiating table but not the mother can we change the course of. the way. before greece is even given its second one hundred three billion euro bailout the i.m.f. is warning that it may soon need a third cash injection that's not sitting well with the e.u. with our friends having drain much of the blocks emergency cash supplies to avoid a default and with belts tightening across the western world there is only one place left to seek help as tests are simply reports. with china's three trillion plus dollars in foreign currency reserves it was only a matter of time before debt leverage europe came knocking on its store from chinese side of the leaders always feel k. they'll really be assured that we can reach full power is like we're not putting in

practice maybe we want some kind of a deal for me well it's not even a maybe china's call is clearly on the rise and so is its confidence this time around china has no qualms letting the e.u. know that it is well aware of its trump card and that any help will come at a price top of its list of demands gaining the status of a full fledged market economy and lifting the one nine hundred eighty nine ban on its purchase of military weapons from the e.u. . and for the first time china has openly used its potential cash card to lash out at the e.u. for recent subsidy and anti dumping investigations into imports of chinese made steel products and does reemerge. as. it is you know. he's it's. can but europe has and thrown in the towel just yet it still has the power to grant china's wishes and as the country's second

biggest trade partner the fall of one is the fall of both the e.u. also has its own demands for one backing on syria and iran part of the political game national politics game that is being played is very much a mix in particular resources but behind the gates of cash rich china it's fighting its own battle trying to sell the idea to its people chinese internet forums were a buzz with annoyance at what they see as poor ordinary chinese paying for rich europeans so that's why they're trying to prime minister. try to persuade the people who are new people and. you can see the government to. help you the european union is also helping ourselves not all the chinese are convinced but if business must go one one local commentator wrote don't hand over

a dime without asking for the world in return tests are still your r t brussels. look now at some of today's world news there have been clashes in turkey's largest city and valving hundreds of kurds and police violence erupted in the stumble was the authorities trying to prevent the group from celebrating a traditional spring first of all marking. the turkish government rejected requests for celebrations on sunday saying they should be held on the twenty first of march . people have been found dead aboard a migrant ship off the coast of southern italy fifty two others were rescued safely from the boat which had traveled from libya italian coast guard says many on board were three hundred or suffering from hypothermia u.n. figures show around sixty thousand my words landed in the italy last year mostly africans fleeing their countries because of the conflict in libya. meanwhile for

illegal immigrants who arrive safely and the u.k. the promised land isn't always what it seems it's. often finding themselves sleeping on the streets with and no job or money stuck in a legal no man's land you can watch that the next hour here on our team. also a recap of the week's top stories in just a few months and stay with us. to .

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