syria's deadly ceasefire a month into the truce and but the violence persists with neighboring lebanon now dragged into the fighting. europe's savvy way to prepare to square up to each other over cuts while greece is floundering on forming a government push us up closer to quitting the euro. and the world's top whistleblower takes on torture and illegal rendition his latest explosive interview and it's here on our team later this tuesday. on screen and online this is r t broadcasting twenty four hours a day seven days

a week a month into the ceasefire but syria's still suffering from violence and that's casting serious doubt all on the u.n. backed peace plan on monday the e.u. imposed a new set of 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 terrorist groups backed by foreign powers syria's on rest has been spilling across the border in lebanon with sectarian clashes between both pro and 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 with courage and situation. a lot of his options will be very. very. equally

a lot of people want. to gain control of her to use force we're now into a cycle of violence of revenge and as we saw in libya. just because the regime is overthrown doesn't stop the violence when you had this kind of civil war and also external commenting and find you know rather irresponsible were people who were doing was fine and so on concerned about what happens after. america is resuming arms sales to bahrain they're freezing delivery last autumn because of the bloody anti-government crackdown washington says none of the weapons would be used against demonstrators but human rights groups say the deal as a signal of the u.s. supporting a dictatorship as their next can reports the decision marks a striking difference in approach to other countries in the region. the meet 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 us 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've made this decision i want to emphasize on national security grounds we've made this decision mindful of the fact that there remain a number of serious unresolved human rights issues in bahrain 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 region clyde prestowitz a top economist in the reagan and clinton administrations argues the u.s. has traded principles for military bases we've sided with the ruling sunni. regime

because of the base of the of the fifth fleet. in the gulf. and so yeah i mean i think 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 concerned by what has now become almost daily street violence and we in this context bahrain's 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 supporting it was open openly supporting the libyan rebels and their attacks against the state even though this was. an art in

the situation that now was the ruling proper board and and then syria similarly there has been no and there were only four or restrain from by wants by the opposition forces there so it's a little bit are you there's only in bahrain it's a highly asymmetrical 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 companies tech our reporting from washington r.t. . still to come this hour a day of desolation for palestinians. it's not but day on which will see protests

to mark the birth of israel sixty four years ago we bring you a to the heart rendering story of one woman who is paying. crosses the divine. and they're off a sigh hughes rocket with a three crewmembers on board is heading to the international space station where they'll spend four months here at the launch site in kazakhstan. is.

the official location. i pod touch from the. video. and. now in the palm of your. on the dot com all right at seven minutes past the hour and a showdown is brewing and glenn as france's newly elected leader prepares to lock horns with the german chancellor socialist francois hollande has been campaigning for growth while angola markel is europe's chief advocate for belt tightening both have intense political pressure at home which is bound to make for tough talks are all over reports from swallow and when the french presidential election he robbed. of the biggest ally in nicolas sarkozy when it came to pushing the regime is the

only way to tackle europe's debt crisis has not been a great recent period for the german chancellor seeing silicones see the polish poland christian democratic party suffered a major losses. 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 all eyes are now looking to see if a new a range of arrangement can be sorted out between the leaders of europe's two largest economies francois along will be heading he it's a straight after he is sworn in as french president on tuesday he's being welcomed here by angle of local 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

of juleps no for his part and campaigned on a plate that he would try and remake go she ate the euro zone's fiscal pact which binds member states to austerity measures though this is something though that germany says is not on the table fiscal pact is closed it will not be reopened or renegotiate it's going to be watching it closely expect will 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 a long sight cutting the deficit 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 mind that

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. 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 there'll be more on tuesday but markets have already dropped in reaction while other even 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 they are no prisoners of their own misjudgments their errors of judgment to those would 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

all requesting greece to opt out and to leave the eurozone because the problems are far beyond that we could have served 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 from the eurozone the question is how we can get the problem solved as quickly as possible without damaging the european integration process and there's more cracks and there's more rather on the cracks in europe's financial foundations you can find that archie dot com and here's what else is online for you. now the hacker group anonymous may be the most powerful organization on earth firms and law makers add met at the has access to every classified database in the u.s. and out their country it's. better to talks to afghan president hamid karzai

about his embattled country's next phase as nato hands control over more regions despite. rise and violence the full interview is at our to. the music sigrid laboratory to mccurdy was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which will unfortunately doesn't give a dollar amount anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and worry that this is why you should care only on the r g dot com. margaret mother did not like we're going to become. he was afraid. and she was

very cool. she filled. our lives frankenstein's monster. we don't have the problem but every. effort is made on the palestinian or in the european side to negotiate and to the violent attacks against israel which i have no fear of war call the. song goes you have no. calling the leader of the state of israel one of the main terrorists in the world. we are supposed to be seriously examining history but you mention a few words about jewish culture labyrinth and people gets so upset this is i'm sorry to say it's

a form of emotional blackmail. what . thanks for joining r t with me terence parenting torture in guantanamo bay britain's complex city in the illegal rendition on suspects and i selective approach on who to regard as a threat america's war on terror is leaving a decidedly murky trail and it's what julian assange takes on in his latest sell right here on r.t. we supported you let's just admit this the british government both of them were generating fighters in the seventy's and eighty's trained them by the us is in in snowed in britain supported jihad again just a few months ago when they were supporting. would you even fighters who call themselves mujahideen in libya against gadhafi the world's was

a lower is back and he's here on our t.v. at eleven thirty am g.m.t. delmas said. i speak to a former al qaeda suspect who was detained in the entire murder and tortured into a confession but then eventually released without charge he said out of network to fight for the rights of other detainees because 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 should dominate everything they believe they would be a breakdown in the war if sharia law predominates what is the future for muslims in the east and in the west. for one country of the fifteenth of may as a day of sorrow for much of its people it's the day israel was born but one which

palestinians call not by winning catastrophe which is marked with large protests policy where has the remarkable story of one woman who's 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 and 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 two an hour 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. i was born in auschwitz i was a ga i spent three years in auschwitz and i survived only because the christian doctrine the camp made 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 know where they are members and. still feels fear when she hears a loud knocking at the door. i think they are coming to kill me i remember the bones of the bodies legs hands other people this barbed wire fence i remember terrible beatings in the camp i cry a lot when i cry my heart is calm. 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 to latest. amalie 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 and to now they knew their mother had been through it but they didn't know she'd been a holocaust survivor for her though i did not betray the jewish people i don't hate jews definitely not i really only converted from my children 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 that's the that's really the we were shocked we didn't know what to say but 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 israeli 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 it to withhold funding from organizations that commemorate not but day but tel aviv university is allowing a memorial ceremony on its campus. that is angering the country's leaders later israeli arab employee of tb tells r.t. that in order to bring change people's suffering must be acknowledged. vying to

prevent me from saying that i am sad that my family was killed or deported in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight 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. empathy for those who survived the holocaust i have. talked about it here in that message. and i see it disappear from the jewish people. in unity as a victim. to have empathy for the cellphone victim victim.

and you can watch the full interview with israeli arab men to be in just over an hour right here on r.t. . all right we take a trip now around the world for more of this hour's news a report has 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 to be held accountable nato has refuted the claims saying its campaign was conducted with unprecedented care and precision member states made for a summit in chicago later on this week. u.s. congressman ron paul is suspending his active campaign for white house he's not want any of the single state vote but he's not giving in instead he's plowing his resources into the national convention to win the republican nomination paul is the last main party talent or to mitt romney in the race to challenge president barack

obama in november. some weird weather in bosnia's capital right now after basking in summer like sun is now shivering under a blanket of snow as temperatures plunged to just above freezing the last may flurry 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. a new expedition to the international space station took off just over an hour ago a so you spacecraft carrying two russian cosmonauts and a u.s. officer not blasted off from kazakhstan and are to 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 ready to set off for the international space station 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. for the next four months as 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 says they will be docking at the ais this will be docking with several. cargo vessels that european japanese american vessels they also will be doing several spacewalks as well one of those will be concerning the situation where. they will be joining the rest of the thirty one thirty two expedition three people already there but of course the big do have to have a good time and now when it comes to joe acaba 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. to me true joins us now with the markets and it seems a bit like groundhog day every morning you keep telling me the markets are down didn't didn't you ask me to just say that yesterday. they were falling yeah yeah they do they do they keep falling we've seen eight out of nine sessions in the u.s. for example losses but indeed to this very little hope that something will change the unless we get some positive news and we just don't get it in asia what we're seeing right now is is the markets also tumbling. down point nine percent exports is and financials are leading this drop because of a recent downgrade that we've seen from moody's now let's take a look at that more detail now at least banking sector has seen a vote of non-confidence as moody's cut the credit ratings on the twenty six

lenders including the country's majors like uni credit ten of them were downgraded to so-called junk status well sums or the raising is cut by as much as four notches now the agency said the banks were increasingly vulnerable to at least recession and the effects of government austerity measures of them all super negative credit watch meaning the further downgrades are possible. now in the u.s. as i said aides out of nine sessions have seen losses with the dow jones and nasdaq declining more than one percent in the previous session now what we've for what we've been looking at is of course j.p. morgan shares the lead the decline is on the dow with a drop of three point two percent after the news of two billion dollars in a trading loss and groupon reported a surge of eighteen percent before the close after the close they have seen their

first quarter results coming out and they were almost doubled in terms of revenues compared to the previous year. on the commodities market the oil continues to a drop of both blends above light sweet and brent's at around half a dollar per barrel on concerns about greece's stalemate of course political impasse which could lead to the country coming out of the euro zone and therefore to a decline in demand in the euro zone for commodities now and in the currencies markets we are seeing the euro actually gaining against the greenback but the russian ruble dropped again. the buy currency basket as you can see there around half a percent versus dollar even more than that and of course in an hour we will see the beginning of a new session and we will have an update hold the ruble for your next job because the same applies to the stock markets this is monday's close for you in the twenty

in thirty four minutes to be exact we will see you beginning of the new session seventh continent was down but better than the market which ended down three and a half percent very bad session this is as the company decided not to pay dividends but minority shareholders are afraid that the buyback price is not as attractive as it could be. a holding is down unconfirmed rumors of a merger with another state electricity operator and russia's largest producer. is also down around six percent outside of the reporting first quarter profits up fifty three percent but that's according to russian accounting standards. so really it seems the ground dog did see a shadow for the markets our yellow it's very true i mean to help we can turn that frown upside down for us. all the way a russian filmmaker talks to us about how today's movies are more about being

a celebrity vehicle than english an art that's after the headlines in just a moment. me.

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