today's news the stories that shape the week kofi and man's 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. also the killing of the toulouse government uncovers a bigger problem in france's experts highlight the dangerously widespread social exclusion of minorities despite decades of attracting immigrants plus. china is the crime here 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'll look at what's behind the

increased pressure on pyongyang from washington. welcome it's midnight here in moscow you're watching the weekly here on r.t. a roundup of the main stories of the last seven days with me kevin no into nyc and russia says coffee and iran's 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 for all of that meeting. kofi annan and his is the author of a a six point plan to try and bring around peace in the country now included in this this universal ceasefire but also that humanitarian aid be allowed to.

get 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 prison to be 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. mission will be successful we will provide you with any assistance necessary of any level and the only way of course in russia is capable of providing the requirements. well for his part kofi annan has said that he hopes for russia's assistance and advice in going about putting his plan into place now the assad government seem to be willing to go to the table to have talks so russia have made a point of saying they. should people getting the opposition to get to the table

saying peace was impossible in syria as long as storing weapons were making their way to help was making its way towards the rebels we heard from the united nations is just weak 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 a mixed bag when it comes to the response and as far as the choose sign. if you will by the international community now is also reports that the rebels have been receiving not just support in terms of words from from foreign countries but they've actually be receiving their weapons and training on the ground russia has

warned against taking one side in that the syria crisis saying that both sides have to be looked at and also warning against the railing of the peace plan chumming a one e a middle east expert from sudan three college at oxford university told me she believes that opposition groups rejecting coffee announce plans may soon find themselves isolated. the external based office ition which is largely supported by external players and doesn't have natural constituencies in syria may be completely sidetracked in the seat six six point plan i think that's a positive development. that 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 really taking the lead in an effort to 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. with little light at the end of the tunnel in syria that the chief already knows that it could plunge into an all out civil war a deep city and splinters of a country it's a prosperous ready having chilling consequences beyond syria's borders result is examine beutler exclaims. it's an air of c.t. on the mediterranean with a pancham for everything. lebanese tripoli looks a lot like its libyan namesake and increasingly it's being drawn into the

revolutionary violence it's conscious sizeable alawite and sunni communities and with the syrian border just half an hour drive away tensions are already boiling over the road separating the alawite and sunni communities here in tripoli exactly mean this serious street and attitudes to what's happening there divides lebanese more than anything else this country stands to lose the most from the disintegration of its neighbor not approve of that came just a few weeks ago when 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 alawite raised money to put out this impromptu memorial to the leader and the countries they consider their protectors but you must thank you russia there is also no second guessing on whom they consider their anime america like

a euphemism for american interests they don't create a great democracy human rights of freedom. serious ruling baath party has its regional office here its chiefs meeting bashar al assad in person was the most memorable event of 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 here about half an hour ok and we see everything. from. going from. here from jordan from there from. across the street in a hospital. run by a sunni charity attitudes are strikingly different most of the patients here are young men from to homs province and some like mohammad don't hide their affiliation

to get free syrian army his take on who is responsible for the bloodshed is not hard to guess. i have a warning for the russian people that if they don't change their stand will cut all ties with them once their revolution reaches its victory you still have time to make the right choice. the hospitals administrator shows us some of about five hundred patients they've treated since the uprising began. their trust allegedly committed by sounds of regime amount to crimes against humanity but when i ask him whether the revolution is worth all the suffering and destruction his response is not exactly humanitarian but we have many destruction and we have more than i can no more than eleven thousand as we hear. i think the old bird evolution has to pay some some.

something. with the. changing. of life. to keep it you warring communities apart the lebanese government has dispatched an army contingent. all its resemblance of the libyan capital lebanese tripoli is still trying hard to avoid the libyan scenario it's not going to artsy tripoli lebanon just let you know a bit later this is foreign minister tells me why he thinks syrian rebels should lay their arms is a quick preview of what he had to say. the assorted groups fighting against the government are 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 conflict been backed against the other that is the opposition being supported to fight the government of

a political transformation is not to be achieved by force pilots produces more violence every country has its political opposition every opposition movement in the world with a push for its agenda through violence the world will come up in flames. protests have continued in egypt on sunday as portside football fans vented their fury over a two year suspension that's been slapped on their club violence a day earlier saw one teenager shot dead and sixty eight others injured as the military clash with angry crowds and the decision to suspend the club followed the worst stadium disaster egypt's history when seventy four people killed rioting last month a number of police officers have been charged over the tragedy with many egyptians gravely lack security for. middle east in their history professor lawrence davis said in his view was that there's going to be no clear end to the bite because no one's taking charge of the situation. egypt has no no standing law and

order actually. that there's state things are such that the government is not in control bihari is. not going to come out of its barracks unless contro do you know who very very large wait and so the populace is essentially on its own and that means that unpopular decisions are made you're going to get the this sort of scientifically is kind of how purse the anger and there is no capacity to control it where is there any capacity 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 over who will write it in

a draft and panel will press on regardless though later this week even though liberal and police say the groups dominated by islamists picking up the story artie's middle east correspondent paula slayer for you now. of the one hundred members fifty are parliamentarians and of with of the thirty seven come from islamic parties of the remaining fifty who are public figures here to islamize have a comfortable majority there is a small minority of christians of women and of 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 the population a sector that why make a 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 place the nine hundred seventy one constitution that was of polish 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 a 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 now earlier this month the lower house of parliament unanimously adopted a text that called it is role public enemy number one of egypt and also called for the expulsion of the israeli ambassador for the stopping of all egyptian oil and gas exports to israel and also for review of all previous agreements between cairo and tell of a of so it's well to is increasingly alarmed over the growing is a stronghold in the government and this is an alarm that has been expressed elsewhere in the region so the question that people really are asking is what kind of egypt is replacing that our thoughts and mubarak. every question of that is will

be following up of course now this is our team from moscow broadcasting should live it's come out of forty minutes past midnight still ahead a flash of inspiration for russia's election cameras week selfie keeping a fair eye on the presidential poll now we look at the costly web cam network and open the shutters on a new lease of life. plus killing the newborns you don't want the disturbing discussion being held by a top british medics about post birth abortion. during a tense thirty two siege this last week french police shot dead the gunman in toulouse who murdered seven people mohammad merah killed three children and a teacher in a jewish school as well as three soldiers a french one of algerian this was then shot more than twenty times by officers as he tried to escape from his apartment window he'd claim ties to al qaida and underwent training in afghanistan french intelligence had been watching better for

some time with security services been criticized for not acting earlier is brother who said he was proud of merit actions was in court on sunday and is charged with complicity in the murders political analyst alex korbel says france's attitudes towards migrants maybe than down a path of violence. the french young arabs in france 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 jail for example they are despised by the local population because they don't speak arabic and because they don't know the culture so you know way they are really good on both sides and turn to. aggression and maybe religion as a substitute for for an answer strong culture in france because of south sarkozy's

past police sees economic policies the the gross doesn't exist so you have a lot of people resenting the presence of the immigrants and immigrants feel that they are not welcome so they turn to aggressive actions. and france continues there's real from the deadly attacks pakistani intelligence say dozens more french muslims are following in mirrors footsteps of the training with taliban if you want to get the speed on that when you got the details on our website are. also britain's petrol prices are hitting new highs but the government still driving up fuel tax leaving motorists and businesses feeling a brogue reporting on that in a few minutes to this channel. the next u.s. president barack obama's threat to punish north korea for what he described as bad behavior his comments were made in a south korean capital seoul ahead of a nuclear summit which kicks off later today monday about it was referring to

a planned satellite launch next month which many fear is a disguised missile test i spoke to current affairs radio host and author stephen lemon who thinks that washington needs a threat in the region to maintain its presence there. there's no matter whether he's in asia here in africa or in america or in europe if saber rattling here is complaining about other nations what happened here is wrong with north korea or anybody else it didn't seem that technology in this case north korea wants to launch a satellite but if you imagine if all western countries want to go on it is there a way they're watching deal with cleaning up the polish or it's the there are they're testing new weapons now they're really developing one range missiles which they have all the difference in what i think we're watching you would never knew there was north korea north korea has been a target it was and it must pay for their king says the who are more tools obama

being the speech if you want to go over the highway there are two kinds of the world. needs a presence before the middle east it's not enough to last that people are more in the other here he said it was east asia he had one country and this charter shy and all of that america is positioning troops were remains i believe in austria you know oh twenty five hundred they believe very controversial me or when you see asia you are in korea koreans are protesting for most of our it is one thing to do it china only on china's the target korea is the. same lemon that is also tightening around iran where the you are posing a new baksheesh sanctions last friday this time for alleged human rights violations as part of a growing campaign against iran over its nuclear activities even though israel spy

agency and the cia reportedly agree that iran is not the lapwing a bomb some experts think the pressure though on the islamic republic could backfire. since iraq we just cannot take seriously practically any american declaration regarding alleged weapons of mass destruction as saddam hussein was supposed to have or iran's nuclear program had put myself in the shoes of the renia 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 you around every other day that 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 while israel's behavior in the region even worldwide has been the plural over the past decades however iran has to be practically. off the map because they want to have

a nuclear program. but with the current impose a ban on rainy and oil imports this summer petrol prices in great britain of already at no time high during the week the hikes being fueled by give you peace announced by the british government which small businesses claim will cause short term gain long term pain more of that next hour on this channel. two academics have ignited a furious debate in britain saying if this next story and beyond as well after advocating that parents should have the right to end the life of newborn babies in the same way is an abortion before birth and british medical ethics journal which carried their article says it's intended to provoke academic debates but this one out range of comments as out is either bennett explains. surely 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 is about it it's stupid. and it is very sad to think that they are the people who are giving advice to their mothers they have to do you say to everyone a taken and i try to preserve life and a day i love to them i think i failed a field our children know where preserving they're not worth saving and that we're having and that really isn't the case that stereotypes just been taken a whole lot further by two ethicists who argue it's ok to kill babies even after they're born the controversial comments were published by the oxford educated professors in a leading british medical journal they dismiss newborns as potential not actual persons they say killing them snow different to

a normal prenatal abortion but critics branded infanticide asked 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 advocates in after birth abortions in all cases even if the babies are not disabled the authors of now received death threats and say they were merely making an academic discussion our job is to publish arguments for and in about four issues so that. in the long run some of these issues are are very complex and are personal for example i would agree with. you. positions of opinion or i would like to defend people's right to express to you and other people's right to respond to them academic discussion or not the articles prompted outrage not only

among pro-life groups but also mothers of children with disabilities who declined the option of abortion they definitely seems to be a trend now is to say that you need these children shouldn't be here it's not something terrible it's not awful just because it's not what you imagine it's doesn't mean it's not something fantastic but his having sam in our life is amazing absolutely amazing and 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 is life would be a burden i have been it's see london was frozen a web site as well if you have some to say about it it was a fake you know anyway those no you could hit the button too common or all the stories you see like these to be part of the occupy protests protest an arrest more occupy activists saying they're peaceful demonstrations only in detention is fourteen or held in new york we've got pictures in our website partied all can also

the cutting edge cameras catching criminals in japan as it scans millions of faces in just seconds we tell you on our web site. though talking of such things high tech is web cameras and the rest of it there are of course a quote of a million of the things these electronic guys looking for a new lease of life right now in russia they were the web that restored a great expense to provide maximum transparency for the presidential election but we're going to do know the trick which over explores. those videos went viral from cultural dancing in chechnya some quite impressive workouts five hundred years worth of life video recorded on one single day was part of electing the next leader of russia but cameras were installed at all polling stations to money tour any possible fraud but the relatively few violations were overshadowed by the ins taman provided some had already doubts the election the

most expensive live show in russia's history the. most advanced software to the most remote regions of russia now we can do video conferences scholars can relax should write a best professors for aggression and a group. that's just one of many ideas about how to use the two hundred fifty thousand cameras and what 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 webcam will make things harder to hide under the carpet and russia's police stations are somewhere quakes have argued for a while we need to come under greater scrutiny but equally up to several people died recently probably received while in preliminary. i suggest we should move cameras from polling to police stations it would not violate

the rights of those detained as their faces would be hard to reduce it will save the detainees themselves from police abuse. meanwhile parents want to protect their 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 are on equal terms that will do their cousins without help. there had been numerous complaints in the castles about unfair competition and that there had been no proof right now there will be. many ideas on the table authorities have launched an official competition for the best broad to use the costly equipment and with everyone allowed to have their say the people's big brother looks set to stay its two grandchildren archie scale. and

a couple of minutes more talk or comment for your exclusive interview with lebanon's foreign minister talking to our team focuses on its neighbors struggles in syria we've got a lot to say about that before that i'll recap our top stories the life.

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