today's news of the stories that shape the week kofi announced peace mission could be the last chance for syria to avoid a civil war russia outlines its outlook of the conflict to the peace envoy here in moscow. the killing of the to lose gunman and cause a bigger problem in france as experts highlight the dangerously widespread social exclusion of minorities despite decades of attracting immigrants plus. chinese this time it is the budget punishment for bad behavior barack obama's promise to north korea if it goes ahead with a controversial satellite launch next month we look at what's behind the increased pressure on pyongyang from washington.

welcome it's nine pm here in moscow you're watching weekly here on r.t. the round of the main use most of the last seven days with me kevin know it first russia says quote finance peace efforts could be the last chance for syria to avoid plunging into a long lasting and bloody civil war the joint u.n. arab special envoy and the russian president held talks here in moscow to discuss ending the violence and to get both sides in the conflict to talk he's paid all of his pain following up meeting today. kofi anon his is the author of a six point plan to try and bring around peace in the country now included in this this plan a universal ceasefire. that humanitarian aid be allowed to. see if he gets

into those parts of syria that need it most also that dialogue take place between the sides in the ongoing crisis there now during that meeting to present a beach made head of saying just how important the anon plan could be to the future of syria. for syria this could be the last chance to avoid a protracted and bloody civil war pretty much hope that your mission will be successful we will provide you with any assistance necessary on the level and the money way of course and russia is capable of providing the report. well for his part kofi annan has said did he hopes for russia's assistance and advice then going about putting his plan into place now the assad government seems to be willing to go to the table to have talks so russia have made the point of saying the name emphasis should be on getting the opposition to get to the table same piece was impossible in syria as long as storing the weapons were making their way

and help was making its way towards the rebels we heard from the united nations in the last week saying that they supported kofi annan proposals really a landmark when it comes to syria being discussed in the u.n. that everybody was singing from the same song sheet however we're still hearing from countries like the u.s. they say that they want to see regime change in syria that they want assad to be to be forced out we've also seen fresh sanctions imposed by the e.u. on syria in the last week as well so. when it comes to the response and as far as the it's being sung. if you will by the international community you know was also reports that the rebels have been receiving not just support in terms of woods from foreign countries but they've actually be receiving weapons and training on

the ground russia has warned against taking sides in that the syria crisis they have to be looked at also warning against the railing of the peace plan. sharmeen wadi a middle east expert from sudan to these college oxford university police an opposition group projecting kofi announced plans may soon find themselves isolated the external based opposition which is largely supported by external players and doesn't have natural constituencies in syria may be completely sidetracked and the seat seats six point plan i think that's a positive development. to the plan actually specifically says that the opposition should enter into dialogue with the regime and i'm not i'm wondering if that was not. placed there to maybe sidetrack the external opposition who have not been able to get their act together and increasingly are it seems being represented

by the muslim brotherhood russia is clearly taking the lead and efforts to help create some time and space for the syrian government to move along with reforms that initiated last spring and of course it's supported heavily by a number of developing countries particularly with the brics and even some regional players like iran so it's very critical in fact that russia is taking the lead in helping you move into the next phase of the syrian crisis. well with little light at the end of the tunnel in syria the chief worry now is that it could plunge into all out civil war and sectarian splinters in the country it's a prospect that's already having chilling consequences beyond syria's borders isn't his example explain next. it's an arab c.g. on the mediterranean but it panshin for everything. lebanese tripoli looks a lot like its libyan namesake and increasingly it's being drawn into the revolutionary violence it's home to sizeable alawite and sunni communities with the

syrian border just half an hour drive away tensions are already boiling over the road separating the allies and sunni communities here in tripoli is up to the serious street and attitudes to what's happening there divides lebanese and more than anything else this country stands to lose the most from the disintegration of its neighbor here did not approve a better came just a few weeks ago but one night bullets started to flow across the street the clashes claimed the lives of two people and pushed the rest deeper into their ideological trenches residents of these awards harbor raised money to put out this impromptu memorial to the leader and the countries they consider their protectors but you must come to russia there is also no second guessing on whom they consider their anime america like a euphemism for american interests they don't see him in rights of freedom.

serious ruling baath party has its regional office here its chief says meeting bashar al assad in person was the most memorable event in his life while the prospect of a un sanctioned foreign intervention in syria is now minimal he says behind the scenes syria still remains a front here for regional powers syria is from maybe half an hour or so and we see everything you know we're. going. to syria we going from lebanon and syria. from jordan from here from everywhere across the street in a hospice. run by a sunni charity attitudes are strikingly different most of the patients here are young men from the homs province and some like mohammad don't hide their affiliation to be different syrian army he's take on who is responsible for the

bloodshed is not hard to guess. i have a warning for the russian people and if they don't change this will cut all ties with them once the revolution reaches its victory you still have time to make the right choice but the. hospitals administrator shows are some of about five hundred patients they've treated since the uprising began. their charset allegedly committed by assad's regime amount to crimes against humanity because when i ask him what he did revolution is worth all the suffering and destruction his response is not exactly humanitarian where we have many destruction and we have more than no more than eleven thousand we here. and i think all good evolution has to pay some. something. with. developing and changing.

of life to keep it you were in community is a part of the lebanese government has dispatched an army contingent to this city in all its resemblance of believe being a capital lebanese tripoli is still trying hard to avoid the libyan scenario at some point artsy tripoli levanon just let you know in the next lebanese for a minister tells us that r t why he thinks syrian rebels should lay their arms a quick preview of what's coming up. groups fighting against the government being financed and supplied with weapons we hear calls for military intervention coming from within syria as well as internationally we see one party in the country backed you can't see other parties your position being supported to fight the government a political transformation is not to be achieved by force violence produces more violence every country has its political opposition if the position movements of

the world with a push for its agenda through violence in the world look up its minds. one teenager has been shot dead and sixty eight others injured in weekend violence in egypt the military clashed with thousands of football fans in the city of course a furious over a two year suspension has been slapped on the club that decision followed the worst stadium disaster in egypt's history which was seventy four people killed last month a number of police officers have been charged over the tragedy with many egyptians claiming that lax security middle eastern history professor lawrence davison told me will be no clear end to the violence because no one's taking charge of the situation. egypt has no no standing law and order actually. that is state things are such that the government is not in control of the army is.

not going to come out of it barracks unless controlled to. very very large way and so that particular those is essentially on its own and that means that unpopular decisions are really you're going to get the this sort of spontaneous kind of how her stock and there is no capacity to control it where is there any has to be to actually prevent the reasons for going. there is no central control in egypt now. the fragile process of creating egypt's new constitution is already showing serious signs of discord with lawmakers storming out of a key parliamentary vote of all right it a drafting panel will press on regardless later this week even though liberal m.p. say the groups dominated by islamist let's get across this story go live now to our correspondent the region paula slayer hello paula liberal m.p.'s furious as i just

mentioned they're calling the constitutional drafting pamelor a crime against the nation what's behind their anger here. well a lot of liberal lawmakers as you say have staged a walkout in egypt during a parliamentary vote on a hundred member council that has been tasked with drafting the new constitution now they were protesting against the fact that the majority of those who proposed to sit on this council are islamised of the one hundred members fifty are parliamentarians and of the fifty thirty seven come from islamic parties of the remaining fifty who are public figures here too the islamists have a comfortable majority there is a small minority of christians of women activists who participated in the revolutionary movement that ousted the former egyptian president hosni mubarak last year but as i say it's a minority and so what we're hearing from these liberal lawmakers is that you cannot have

a permanent constitution that is drafted by only one stick to of the population a sector that rhyme and majority in only one election at the same time we do know that the panel will have six months to write this new constitution it would replace the nine hundred seventy one constitution that was abolished when mubarak was ousted and once the constitution is written it will be put to a vote in a national referendum and it will need to determine the balance of power between the previously all powerful president and parliament at the same time it will need to map out the future identity of egypt in terms of the role of religion and minority rights and now earlier this month the lower house of parliament unanimously adopted a text that called it is role public enemy number one of egypt it also called for the expulsion of the israeli ambassador for the stopping of all egypt's them by oil and gas exports to israel and also for review of all previous agreements between

cairo and television so it's well today is increasingly alarmed over the growing is a stronghold in the government and this is an alarm that's. has been based elsewhere in the region so the question that people really are asking is not kind of egypt is replacing that. well it's a story we're following very closely with your help our middle east correspondent there paul asli of bring us up to date from tel aviv thanks ever so much. during a tense thirty two hour siege this week french police shot dead the gunman interludes who murdered seven people muhammad medic killed three children and a teacher a jewish school as well as three soldiers french one of algerian the said was shot more than twenty times then by officers as he tried to escape through his apartment window he'd claim ties to al qaeda or that they went training in afghanistan. have been watching where for some time and they've been criticized for not acting

earlier his brother who said he was proud of members actions was in court on sunday is expected to face charges of being an accomplice politically and ascetics korbel spokesperson says france's attitudes towards migrants maybe the path of violence. the french don't care i've seen from are really a little is a later because. they don't feel like french people think that they are french and when they go back to for example they are despised by the local population because it will speak and because they don't know the culture so you know way they are really hated on both sides and turn to aggression and maybe religion as a substitute for an ancestral culture in france because of sarkozy's purse to police these economic policies the group doesn't exist so you have a lot of people thinking the presence of the immigrants and images feel that they

are not welcome so the turn to aggressive actions. was france continues to reel from the deadly attacks pakistani intelligence says dozens more french muslims are following in the rose footsteps they're trading with the taliban we've got more than our website if you want to get yourself more acquainted with our ongoing story is that r.t. dork on. us president barack obama's threat the punish north korea for what he described as bad behavior his comments were made in the south korean capital seoul ahead of a nuclear summit that stupid kickoff for monday the bubble was referring to a planned satellite launch by pyongyang next month which many theories disguised missile test current affairs radio host and author stephen leatherman told the washington needs a threat in the region to maintain its presence there. typical obama there's no matter whether he did he hear it africa or in america in europe i hear say whatever adelina hears complaining about other nations what

a person is wrong with north korea or anybody else they've been seeing it here acknowledge he is he's north korea wants to launch a satellite so could you imagine if you will western country one of the largest there a way it was handled cleaning up the polish your head it's there you're testing new weapons and they would be really developing what range missiles which they have all the difference in what i think or what he would never do that the korea north korea has been a target of. and it must take their king says the tools obama i mean this nature if you want to go over the highway did some cries of the world. needs a presence be the other way in the middle east it's not the fella not the bottle or some people are more in the area he said east asia he has one country and this charter scheidel is that america is the troops marines i believe in austria

you are now twenty five hundred they believe very controversial me or. even korea koreans that most of our. they want nothing to do it china those who say that we don't china's that are here korea is the budget. and this is also tightening around ran with the e.u. imposing sanctions last friday this time for alleged human rights violations as part of a growing campaign against a run over its nuclear activities even though israel spy agency and the cia reportedly agree that iran isn't developing a bomb well for some experts though the pressure could have precisely the opposite effect. since you rock we just cannot take seriously practically any american there gratian regarding alleged weapons of mass destruction or saddam hussein was supposed to have or iran's nuclear program had put myself in the shoes of the real leadership and if your country is threatened all the time if the only country with

weapons of mass destruction nuclear bombs in the region is israel and israel threatens iran every other day there is going to attack it unilaterally well i wouldn't be surprised if iran did think about militarizing their nuclear program why is it that the united states britain france can be trusted with nuclear weapons israel can be trusted with nuclear weapons whilst israel's behavior in the region even worldwide has been the poor of all over the past decades however iran has to be practically erased off the map because they want to have a nuclear program. but even preparing to impose a ban on a radio oil imports this summer petrol prices in britain of already hit an all time high this last week i explain filled by new duties announced by the british government which small businesses claim will cause short gain but long pain when i hear more about covering it next on this channel.

to academics have ignited a furious to pay to britain and beyond rather k. think that parents should have the right to end the life of newborn babies in the same way as an abortion before birth the british medical ethics journal which carried their article says it's intended to provoke an academic debate but this but outrage of the comments is that is over bennett explained. actually through course was eight months pregnant when she found out her son would be born with down syndrome even as late as that the only advice she got was to have an abortion doctors tried to persuade her sam's condition would be a struggle not worth living but six years on the only struggle mother and child have had was ignoring that advice i was treated as if i would just. say. it is very sad to think that they are the people who are giving advice their mothers they have a duty to see everyone a taken a tip is that life and

a day a lot of them might i fail date feel that our children know where preserving their not worth saving they are not that happy and that really isn't the case that stereotypes just been taken a whole lot further by two ethicists who argue that it's ok to kill babies even after the born the controversial comments were published by the oxford educated professors in a leading british medical journal they dismiss newborns as potential and not actual persons they see killing them so no different to a normal prenatal abortion but critics branded infanticide ask the question is a newborn child any less of equal member of the human family than a member of a certain race or of one gender or the other the authors of stoped unethical storm by advocating after birth abortions in all cases even if the babies are not disabled the authors have now received death threats and say they were merely

making an academic discussion our job is to publish arguments for. issues so that. some of these issues are very complex and personally for example i don't agree with. conclusions of the pin i would like to defend people's right to express. and other people's right to respond to them academic discussion or not the articles prompted outrage not only amongst pro-life groups but also mothers of children with disabilities who declined the option of abortion to be a trend now it to state it. in these children shouldn't be here it's not something terrible it's not awful just because it's not what you imagine doesn't mean it's not something. having found in our life it's amazing absolutely

amazing sam's a member of his local swimming club and plays football to seeing him here it's hard to believe how doctors can say his life would be a burden i've been it's. london. check no doubt either concrete or night course if you were with us for a few seasons online you can observe your say these stories also as well might interest you protests and arrest more occupy activists seeing their peaceful demonstrations end in detention as fourteen held in new york got the photos online . because they had cameras catching criminals in japan as apparently it scans millions of faces in just seconds we tell you bit more about how it works on our website. and a similar kind of vein there are a quarter of a million electronic guys looking for a new lease of life here in russia or they were of course those web cams that were installed a great expense to provide maximum transparency for the presidential election where

they're going to go. over fines or. those videos went viral from cultural dancing in chechnya to something was impressive workouts five hundred years worth of life video recorded in one single day was part of electing the next leader of russia what cameras were installed at all polling stations to mourn it or any possible fraud but the relatively few violations were overshadowed by the entertainment provided some have already dumped the election the most expensive live show in russia's history. most advanced software to the most remote regions of russia now we can do video conferences scholars can be lectured by the best professors for russia and abroad. that's just one of many ideas about how to use the two hundred fifty thousand cameras and why the russians may still be undecided who they want to keep an eye on they definitely

want to control not entertain the all seeing eye all the web cam will make things harder to hide under the carpet and russia's police stations are somewhere critics have argued for a while we need to come under greater scrutiny but equally after several people died recently probably juries received while in for labor. i suggest we should move cameras from polling to police stations it would not violate the rights of those detained as their faeces would be hard to reduce. the detainees themselves from police abuse. meanwhile parents want to protect the children from another type of abuse corruption in schools with the annual nationwide state exams due to take place in june they are lobbying for classrooms to be equipped with c.c.t.v. . it's crucial for us that all children during all types of exams on equal terms

will do their tests without help. there had been numerous complaints in the castle about unfair competition that there had been no proof right now that there will be about. any ideas on the table authorities have launched an official competition for the best brought you to use the call slip what maddens me and with everyone allowed to have their say the people's big brother looks set to stay if you grandchildren r t. two your wife and a few minutes to on this channel. here in fact will tell you by the best smart phone up locations and how best to protect your device that's all coming up in our latest technology update but before that holiday short i had lunch the past seven days so i'm kevin allen beer moscow and our team tonight.

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