syria's deadly ceasefire eighteen months into the truce about the violence persists with neighboring lebanon now drawing a dent in the fighting. europe's heavy weights prepare to square up to each other over cots while greece is floundering on forming a government pushes it closer to quitting the euro. and the world's top whistleblower takes on torture and illegal rendition and has the latest explosive interview and it's here on our t.v. later this tuesday. thanks for joining our team with me karen tara broadcasting live from the heart of

moscow well a month into the cease fire but syria's still suffering from violence and that's casting serious doubt on the u.n. backed peace plan on monday the e.u. imposed a new economic sanctions against the country to pile on the pressure but only on the government european leaders want to speed up the implementation of kofi annan speace initiative which they say has so far failed damascus claims it's being targeted by a terrorist groups and backed by foreign powers syria's on rest has been spilling across the border in lebanon with sectarian clashes between pro and anti assad supporters leaving at least five people dead international relations professor mark allman believes that even if syrian troops lay down arms it won't bring stability. i think the courage of situation i was even a prisoner to retard. a lot of his or. her. well there are very very.

clear a lot of people washed to go in control of a boat used we're now into a cycle of violence the range and as we saw in libya. just because the regime was overthrown doesn't stop the violence when you have this kind of civil war and also external commenting on supplying weapons you know rather irresponsible were people who were doing was fine on contributions and about what happens after. america is resuming arms sales to bahrain after freezing delivery last autumn because of the bloody anti-government crackdown washington insists none of the weapons would be used against demonstrators but human rights groups see the deal as a signal that the u.s. is supporting a dictatorship as going to achieve can reports the decision makes a striking difference in approach to other countries in the region. that was the meat bahrain's persistent crackdown on protesters journalists and

human rights activists washington welcomes bahrain's crown prince and his back to the united states. and pledges to resume arms supplies to a key ally in the gulf. the u.s. had suspended weapons sales to bahrain in the light of massive human rights violations by these sorties there but now the state department has issued a statement saying that american weapons will soon be heading to bahrain again. we made this decision i want to emphasize on national security grounds we made this decision mindful of the fact that there remain a number of serious unresolved human rights issues. which we expect the government of bahrain to address bahrain host the u.s. fifth fleet it's around forty ships two aircraft carriers sixteen thousand personnel a major force in the gulf clyde prestowitz a top economist in the reagan and clinton administrations argues the us has traded

principles for military bases we have sided with the ruling sunni. regime because of the base of the of. the gulf. and so yeah i mean i think that we compromised officials in the same statement announcing the resumption of arms supplies to bahrain washington calls for the country's opposition to show restraint. we are concerned by what has now become almost daily street violence and we urge in this context bucket against political opposition to call for an end to the violence against police that's a stark difference from the u.s. approach towards other countries in the region engulfed in anti-government protests where the u.s. has tacitly or openly encouraged violence against government forces and libya the united states was openly attacking and supporting it was open openly supporting the

libyan rebels and their attacks against the state even though this was. an art to be situation that now was the doing proper board and then syria similarly there has been you know when there were only four or restrain from violence by the opposition forces there so it's a little bit are you there's only in bahrain it's a highly asymmetrical about a situation it's not a case in which. in which there's enormous violence brought by the protesters against the police forces it's clearly by the bahraini state against the civilians the general perception is that the u.s. doesn't want to rock the boat in bahrain because of its fifth fleet there so it's a case of eyes wide shot at human rights violations it might seem like a normal trade off in the wall of politics but critics say it makes a mockery of america claiming the high moral ground in other countries in the arab walled where political unrest wages company check our reporting from washington

r.t. . so it's come this hour a day of desolation for palestinians. it's not about day which will see protests to mark the birth of israel sixty four hears ago point bring you the heart rendering story of the. one woman whose pain crosses the divide. and they're all for a site use rocket with a three a crew wall on board is heading to the international space station where they'll spend four months where at the launch site in kazakhstan. is to be.

down the official ante up location joe on the phone called touch from the. video on demand. an r.s.s. feed now in the palm of your. machine on the dot com all right it's seven minutes past the hour if you're just joining us and an all star of the showdown is burrowing and our land as francis newly elected leader prepares to lock horns with the german chancellor socialist francois hollande has been campaigning for growth while angle americal is europe's chief advocate for belt tightening both have intense political pressure at home which is bound to make for tough talks as peter oliver reports. from swallow and win the french presidential election he brought the angle of merkel of the biggest ally in nicolas

sarkozy when it came to pushing the regime as the only way to tackle europe's debt crisis has not been a great recent period for the german chancellor seeing silicones see the post their own christian democratic party suffered major losses in an election in the state of north rhine-westphalia a state viewed by many as a bellwether for gauging the opinion of german national politics as well so with macos each day it's all eyes are now looking to see if they knew a range arrangement can be sorted out between the leaders of europe's to just a cold emmy's francois along will be heading he it's a bully and straight after he is sworn in as french president all. chouse day being welcomed here by angle of merkel and what's being called very much a getting to know you exercise as opposed to a decision making wall however it is expected to be looking to you gauge.

opinions on things such as fiscal discipline and the promotion of the economy and jobs though for his part all out and campaigned on a plage that he would try and remake go she ate the. fiscal pact which binds member states to austerity measures though this is something though that germany says is not on the table about fiscal pact is closed it will not be reopened or renegotiated be watching it closely expect we'll see some form of agreement some form of compromise reached but ups with a parallel treaty being created or an onyx to the wooding of the original document that could see could favor growth alongside cutting the deficits now what is going to be interesting though is even if they can come to some form of compromise this could just be papering over the cracks we have to pull the political leaders here who have very polarized who have polarized political views all along and believes

that you have to spend money to create growth and to try to drag european countries out of the financial minded they find themselves in. remains committed to austerity and belt tightening saying that that's the only way that europe is going to be able to get itself out of recession and back on its feet. greece is edging even closer to the euro exit door after the latest talks to form a government failed now be more on tuesday about markets have already dropped in reaction while other e.u. nations are scrambling contingency plans the second largest party in greece is the latest to refuse to join a coalition that enforces more cuts political economist marcus kerber says even if our friends quits the euro. it's still too late to save the currency the unconditional. euro savers as they are now prisoners of their own misjudgments their errors of judgment turn out to be fatal because the crisis about the euro is

on far more than just a currency it's about the future integration of europe and we have come to a point where we can no longer solve the euro crisis by simply urging or pushing or requesting greece to opt out and to leave the eurozone because the problems are far beyond that we could have said some two years ago when the crisis was a very beginning so the discussion is no longer about greece the discussion is no longer about whether germany is profiting or benefiting less or more from the you from the eurozone the question is how we can get the problem solved as quickly as possible without damaging the european integration process. there's more on the cracks in europe's financial foundations at r.t. dot com here's what else is on line for you. i'll have her group anonymous may be the most powerful organization on earth firms and law makers at mit it has access

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a report on r g. my grandmother did not like we were here because. he was afraid. and she was very good. she followed. our lives frankenstein's monster. we do have a problem. every. effort is made. by the palestinian or the european side to negotiate. to the violent attacks against israel which i have no fear of war will be no regrets so long as you have no. calling the leader of the state of israel one of the main purpose in the world . we're supposed to be seriously examining history you mention

a few words about jewish culture labyrinth and people get so upset this is i'm sorry to say it's a form of emotional blackmail. there with our team is fourteen minutes past the hour and torture and guantanamo bay britain's complicity and the illegal rendition on suspects and a selective approach on who to regard as a threat america's war on terror is leaving a decidedly market trail and it's what join us on takes on in his latest show here on our team we supported you let's just admit this the british government thought of the motivating fighters in the seventy's and eighty's trained them by the s.s.

in in snowden britain supported jihad again just a few months ago when they were supporting. would you even fight those who call themselves mujahideen in libya against gadhafi so you've got this when you were in control of the soaring to confession acts of terrorism because it's that. so that. that language that we were at the world was a war is back and he's here on our t.v. at eleven thirty am don't miss it. you know come on us why did. i speak to a former al qaeda suspect who was detained in drag ram and then on top of the murder and tortured into a confession but then eventually released without charge he set off a network to fight for the rights of other detainees of course the war on terror but i want to understand not just what happened to him and the breakdown of the rule of law i want to understand where is the world going as far as muslims are

concerned do they believe that sharia law dominate everything they believe they would be a breakdown in the law sharia law predominates what is the future for muslims in the east and in the west. for one country the fifteenth of may is a day of sorrow for much of its deeply divided people it's the day israel was born but one which palestinians call meaning catastrophe and which is marked with large protests all swear has the remarkable story of one woman who has felt the pain on both sides. for seven decades hid her secret only now has his muslim mother of seven and grandmother of twenty nine revealed to her family the full truth about her past i need the bad guys you don't want my children to be afraid for me and be part of my grief we are here all the time in a war between shia and ours so why tell them about another war that another war was

in one nine hundred forty two parents were among the millions of jews rounded up across europe and sent to all should stay at a camp by the nazis layla's mother was eight months pregnant with her at the time or they are pushing ritchie again i was born in auschwitz i was a ga i spent three years in auschwitz and i survived only because i was researching a doctor in the camp me and my two brothers under the floor in his house my mother and father worked for him and night they would crawl in with us and give us dry bread suit in hot water we still feel well they are murderers and mickey. still feels fear when she hears a loud knocking at the door. i think they are coming to kill me i remember the bones the bodies legs hands the other people this barbed wire fence i remember terrible beatings in the camp i cry a lot when i cry my heart is car. after she was freed from the camp or immigrated to israel when she was sixteen she met her husband

a local arab man. i was working. in she brought me something to drink or a good teacher then decided to get married it did not matter to me that she was jewish. but it mattered. her father didn't speak to her for a year and most of her israeli jewish cousins have disowned the young couple moved here to. an arab village in northern israel layla converted to islam she says so that her children would not have to serve in the israeli army until now they knew their mother had been through it but they didn't know she being a holocaust survivor where her lie did not betray the jewish people i don't hate jews definitely not i really only converted from my children but i feel completely accepted here if i hear someone say they hate jews i answer them and say you receive rights from this country and that is why i hate the people who give them to you. now after seventy years her secret has finally come out clearly went to

collect her pension money and the clarke made the connection and the feds that we were shocked didn't know what to say it was so difficult to hear but we opened our mouths and nothing came out of god she survived. his jewish name is leah. but she hasn't really since all those years ago when she arrived in israel as a refugee just months before the state of israel was declared him a nine hundred forty eight a date is really celebrate but one that palestinians mourn is the nakba or catastrophe the displacement of hundreds of thousands of their ancestors. i am not happy or sad on this day i understand how israelis feel and i understand how arabs feel and i feel a lot of people have died for nothing the jewish mother and the muslim mother feel the same pain. and it's that pain that palestinians around the world remember today

. r.t. omar for israel. israeli law allows or to withhold funding from organizations that commemorate not but day but tel aviv university is allowing a memorial ceremony on its campus that is. is angering the country's leaders later israel or a pay homage t.b.a. tells r.t. that to bring change his people suffering must be acknowledged. trying to prevent me from saying that i am sad that my family was killed or deported in one thousand nine hundred did they want us to dance in the street as them we can't we have eleven natural human treeless we knew all recognize the suffer of the other side you will bridge the gap between you and him i have to tell him pretty full of those who survived the holocaust i have.

talked about it here in the knesset. and there you see it disappear from the jewish people. in europe as a victim. to have sympathy for the cell phone victims victim. watch the full interview with israeli arab and p. are meant to be in ten minutes here on our t.v. . well we're going to take you around the world for more of this hour's news reports emerged blaming nato for dozens of civilian killings during last year's military campaign in libya human rights watch in new york says the alliance downplayed the deaths and needs to be held accountable nato has refuted the claim to saying its campaign was conducted with unprecedented care and precision member

states meet for a summit in chicago later this week. u.s. congressman ron paul is suspending his active campaign for a white house he's not one to any of the single state votes but he's not giving in and instead he's wiling his resources into the national convention to win the republican nomination paul is the last remaining party challenger to mitt romney in the race to challenge president barack obama in november selection. some weird weather in bosnia as capital right now after basking in summer sun it's now shivering under a blanket of snow as temperatures have plunged to just above freezing the last may flurry it was fifty years ago and won't last long though temperatures are expected to soar back to over twenty degrees in the next few days. anyway expedition to the international space station took off just over an hour ago

a so used a spacecraft carrying two russian cosmonauts and a u.s. astronaut blasted off from kazakhstan and artie's it even goes go was there to watch them go. we're at the baikonur cosmodrome as close as we could get to the launch pad with the three man crew part of the thirty one thirty two expedition are ready to set off for the international space station. so dear evan and joe acaba on their way to the us right now let's have a moment and take a look at this amazing occurrence. now they are going to be docking with the international space station in two days on may seventh they will be in orbit so. for the next four months that period has been shortened from the initially scheduled six month period still

a lot of work to be done first and foremost cosmonauts and astronauts are scientists so a lot of the scientific experiments will be taking place on the. they will be docking at the ais this will be docking with several. cargo vessels that european japanese american vessels also will be doing this they're all spacewalks as well one of those will be concerning the situation where the space junk will be joining the rest of the thirty one thirty two expedition three people already their course the big do have to have a good time and now when it comes to he's lucky enough to celebrate his birthday on may seventeenth when the so use is actually scheduled to dog the international space station what a way to celebrate a birthday not a lot of us actually probably none of us will be able to do with the like you man. all right certainly a very exciting takeoff but demetrius here with the business news on his first

glance a true states markets how's it going to be looks a bit like the weather in moscow right now miserable. chilly. well in asia we're seeing continued losses on the financial markets amid concerns about greek political impasse and basically perspective that greece might get out of the euro zone although nobody would want that to happen obviously the nikkei is down one point two percent exporters are suffering heavy losses and financials are also down on news that moody's has downgraded twenty six italian banks on monday now over in the united states we have seen also a negative session with the indices the dow and the nasdaq coming down to three month lows j.p. morgan led the decline as on the dow it was down three point two percent of the news of a two billion dollars trading loss and also

a voucher for groupon surged eighteen percent ahead of its first quarter results which were released after the close of the market and the company's revenues of for the quarter almost doubled. now in commodities we are seeing light sweet bread pretty much where they were in the monday session but compared to the close the down around half a dollar per barrel on continued worries about the state of global demand notably in the year. and in the currencies market the euro is actually a bit stronger than the dollar this hour but of course far from is seeing even those positions around a week or two ago when it was at one point three three to the dollar and the russian ruble lost against the by currency the currency basket the russian market saw a very very bad day on the monday with the r.t.s. and my six losing three and a half percent now it wasn't getting any support from the commodities market

because of the lower oil prices that we've just looked at seventh continent the supermarket chain was a bit better the market was down one percent because. but he knows that it would not be paying out dividends however minority shareholders i concerned with the latest proposal of a buy bags saying that the buyback price is not fair amorous k. holding the energy holding was down at around six per cent at the close and also the dive in producer was also one big loser because of disappointing results according to russian accounting standards and of course we'll have more on that around one half hours when these markets will start trading in russia all right many thanks for that update to me. on the way we talk to an arab and p. in israel's parliament about a day which defines the country's polarized people that's after the headlines in just a moment. you

know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. is going to be soon which brought.