cereals a deadly ceasefire a month into the true spirit of the violence persists with neighboring lebanon now dragged into the fighting. europe's heavyweights prepared to square up to each other over a cost some while greece is wondering on forming a government pushes a search equating the euro. and the world's top was a lower takes on torture and illegal rendition his latest explosive interview and it's here on our t.v. later the students to.

scream at all mind twenty four seven you're joining r t with me karen tara well a month into the ceasefire but syria's still suffering from violence and that is casting serious doubt on the u.n. back to peace plan dozens are said to have been killed in the recent surge of unrest in several flashpoint cities 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 peace initiative which they say has so far failed damascus claims its defending the country from terrorist groups backed by foreign powers syria's on the west has been spilling across the border in love and on with sectarian clashes between pro and anti assad supporters may bring at least five people dead international relations professor mark calm and believes that even if syrian troops lay down arms it won't bring stability. i think the tragic situation i was even of

president assad's that are retired grocery story a lot of his supporters will be afraid of what would happen to them if. equally a lot of people watched to gain control of a vote used we're now into a cycle of violence the range 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 as. you know all the irresponsible were people who were doing. terribly concerned 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 say the deal as a signal the u.s. is supporting a dictatorship that's going to to can now reports the decision marks a striking difference in approach to other countries in the region.

that was a meet bahrain's persistent crackdown on protesters journalists and human rights activists that washington welcomes bahrain's crown prince and his broker 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 and 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 and 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 that are worth the ruling sunni. regime because of the base of the. in the gulf. and so yeah i think we compromised 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 in libya the united states was openly supporting it was open and openly supporting the

libyan rebels and their acts against the state even though this was. an art and essentially sure that now was the un proper board and and then syria similarly there has been you know been there all or or restrain from by once 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 walter where political progress wages company check our reporting from washington

marty. still to come this hour a day of desolation for palestinians it's no but day which we'll see protests tomorrow perth of israel sixty four years ago we bring you the heart rendering story of one woman from spain crosses the divide. and the wrong size rocket with three crew members on board is heading to the international space station where they'll spend four months more at the launch site and kazakhstan. is.

the official delegation. from the. video. on the dot com. and all surveys show down as burrowing and berlin as newly elected leader prepares to lock horns with the german chancellor socialist francois hollande has been campaigning for growth merkel 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. what francois hollande will in the french presidential election he rolled. off the biggest ally of nicolas sarkozy when it

came to pushing on steroids as the only way to tackle europe's debt crisis it's not been a great recent period for the german chancellor the seeing some see the post their own christian democratic party suffered major losses and 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 they knew a range range meant can be sorted out between the leaders of europe's two largest economies francois along will be heading. straight after he is sworn in as french president on tuesday 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

of juleps no for his part campaigned on a plate that he would try and renegotiate 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 about fiscal pact is closed it will not be reopened or renegotiated it's going to be watching it closely expect will see some form of agreement some form of compromise reached but up 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 it politically. you have very polarized you have polarized political views. and believes that you have

to spend money to create growth and to drag european countries out of the financial minded they find themselves in. remains committed to austerity and belt tightening so 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 they'll be more on tuesday but markets have already dropped in reaction while other e.u. nations are scrambling contingency plans they 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 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 to also 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 so 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 also online from the. it's all about her group anonymous may be the most powerful organization on earth firms and lawmakers admitting it has access to every classified database in the u.s.

and other countries. and our team talks to afghan president hamid karzai about his embattled country's next face as nato has control over more regions despite a rise and violence the full interview is at r.t. dot com. lou. that's.

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three. three. three broad video for your media project free media r.t. dot com. with r t a fourteen minutes past the hour torture and want animal bay britain's complicity in the illegal rendition all the suspects and the selective approach on who to regard as a threat america's war on terror is leaving a decidedly murky trail and that's exactly what julian assange takes on in his latest show 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 u.s. is in in snowed in britain supporting jihad again just a few months ago when they were supporting. would you even fighters who call themselves what you're doing in libya against gadhafi the world was all blower is

back and he's here on r t at eleven thirty am g.m.t. don't let that. i speak to a former al qaeda suspect who was detained in baghdad in the entire murder and tortured into a confession but then eventually released without charge he said of the network to fight for the rights of other detainees across the war on terror but i wanted to understand not just what happened to him and the breakdown of the rule of law i want to understand we use 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 law if sharia law dominates 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 nakba meaning catastrophe and which is marked with very large protests policy or has the remarkable story of one woman who's felt the pain on both sides. let your brain 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 them back i 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 other war was in one nine hundred forty two parents were among the millions of jews rounded up across europe and sent to auschwitz to camp by the nazis layla's mother was eight months pregnant with her at the time or they are whatever i was born in auschwitz i was a ga i spent three years in auschwitz and i survived only because a christian doctor in the camp made me and my two brothers under the floor in his

house my mother and father worked for him and at night they would crawl in with us and give us drive bread so it's in hot water we sold well they are murderers and we . still feels fear when she hears loud knocking at the door. i think they are coming to kill me i remember the bones the bodies legs hands the 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 we liked each other and decided to get married it did not matter to me that she was jewish. but had matter to layla's family 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 later converted to islam she says so that her children would not have to serve in israeli army until now they knew their mother had been through it but they didn't know. being a holocaust survivor. 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 why hate the people who give them to you. now after seventy years her secret has finally come out clearly went to collect a pension money and the clark made the connection and the hundred we were shocked we didn't know what to say it was so difficult to hear but we opened our mails and nothing came out regard she survived. his jewish name is

the shaft 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 their pain that palestinians around the world remember today . r.t. all more for israel. israeli law allows it to withhold funding from organizations that commemorate not by day but tel aviv university is allowing a memorial a memorial ceremony on its campus and that has angered the country's leaders later israeli arab t.v. tells r.t.

that in order to bring change his people suffering must be acknowledged. the right thing to prevent me from saying that i am scared that my family was killed or deported or did they want us to dance in the street. then we can we have each human natural right to human feelings we knew we recognized to suffer all the other side you'll bridge the gap between you and him. who survived the holocaust. talked about the. indignities and i see. from the jewish people. in europe as a victim. to have empathy for the sufferer victims victim.

watch the full interview with israeli arab t.v. in just over an hour here on r.t. . taking you around the world for more of this hour's. every port 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 and needs to be held accountable nato has refuted the claims saying its campaign was conducted with on the president of care and precision member states made for a summit in chicago later this week. u.s. congressman ron paul is suspending his active campaign former white house he's not won any of the single state votes 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 challenger to mitt romney and the race to challenge president

barack obama in november selection. some very weird weather in bosnia's capital right now are fast moving and summer like it is now shivering under a blanket of snow as temperatures plunged to just above freezing the last time a flurry was fifty years ago and will last long though temperatures are expected to soar back over twenty degrees in the next few days. and you expedition to the international space station took off early on monday so you spacecraft carrying two russian cosmonauts and a u.s. astronaut blasted off from kazakhstan and are too easy to go whoosh 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 seventeenth 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 and. they will be docking at the ais as will be docking with several cargo vessels the 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 he was is actually scheduled to dog the international space station what a way to celebrate a birthday. to me now joins with an update from the business desk and it seems like a breath of fresh air for european investors what's going on well we've had a batch of the latest g.d.p. data come out. to be in europe and germany and the g.d.p. grew in the latest quarter the. percent. approved point four percent the dax point seven percent really this is good news that's despite the fact that it's on the monday we saw moody's. downgrade twenty six italian banks now among them we have seen some major names like uni credit ten of them were downgraded so-called junk status well some saw the ratings cut by as much as four notches the agency said the banks were increasingly vulnerable to italy's

recession and the effects of government austerity measures all of them also put on negative credit watch meaning that further downgrades are possible. and second what's going on in russia haven't had much time to react to the g.d.p. data in germany but after falling three and a half percent on monday they're continuing to drop and that's an increasingly a bad and worrying sign isn't there i mean the r.t. is now down point four percent of my six point one percent close to this year's lows and around two percent lower since the beginning of the year secular towards moving the my sax and mainly financial shares are a drag declining half a percent but energy shares of moved positive they're up around half a percent and that's because commodity prices are of course improving on the commodity market indeed what we're seeing is. light sweet and brant coming back to

previous previous. closes but we'll look at them in just a second in asia the nikkei was down point eight percent at the close the hang saying improve point seven so really japanese investors they're still worried about what's going on in the it's of these banking sector and if we move back to two commodities now brant is standing at around ninety four dollars per barrel we're looking at financial stocks again we'll correct that in just a second brant is looking at ninety four dollars a barrel seventy four cents as you can see there finally the figures brant hundred eleven dollars sixty three cents it's actually improving six cents this is after this g.d.p. data coming out in germany and as a result on the currencies market was seeing a the euro improve significantly versus the dollar thirty one points whereas the

russian ruble is getting currencies off of course losing a lot of a lot of its positions in the previous sessions of the past two years so. that's the way it's looking this out karen. thank you very much. for that update dmitri. more money on the way when the cause a report takes on the world's economy biggest blunders but before that i'll have the headlines in just a few moments. wealthy

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