syria's deadly ceasefire month into the truth about the violence persists with neighboring lebanon on the ballot dragged into the fighting. europe's heavyweights prepare to square up to each other over a call it's called greece's 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 its latest explosive interview and it's here on our team later this tuesday.

and thanks for joining our t. this tuesday it's twelve o'clock here in moscow and i'm karen tara a month into the ceasefire but syria still suffering from violence and that's casting serious doubt on the u.n. backed 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 pressure but only on the government here pm 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 and back to by its foreign powers syria's unrest has been spilling across the border and levanon 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 about stability. i think with courage it's very. even

a president assad's that i retire gracefully to sorry a lot of his supporters would be afraid of what would happen to them if. equally a lot of people watched to gain control of preferred to use force we're now into a cycle of violence of revenge and as we saw in libya. just because the regimes there were doesn't stop the violence when you had this kind of civil war and also external commenting on supplying weapons you know rather irresponsible way where people were doing was fine and so on concerned about what happens after. america is resuming arms sales to crying 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 the u.s. is supporting a dictatorship as going next you can now reports the decision marks a striking difference in approach to other countries in the region.

the meat bahrain's persistent crackdown on protesters journalists and human rights activists washington welcomes bahrain's crown prince and his brother 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'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 us has traded principles for military bases we've sided with the ruling sunni. regime because of the base of this of the fifth fleet. in the gulf. and so yeah i mean i think we compromised ourselves in the same statement announcing the resumption of arms supplies to bahrain washington calls for the countries opposition to show restraint. we're concerned by what is. 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 to the situation that now was the doing proper board and then syria similarly there has been no and there were all or 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 about a situation it's not a case in which. in which there's enormous violence abroad 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 world where political unrest wages companies tech our reporting from washington

r.t. . and still to come this hour a day of desolation for palestinians it's not a day in which we'll see protests to mark the perth of israel sixty four years ago they bring you the heart rendering story of one woman whose pain crosses the divine . and their own face i use rocket with three crewmembers on board and is heading to the international space station where they'll spend four months where we're at the launch site in kazakhstan. it.

down the official auntie obligation your only phone called touch from the dumpster . video on demand all g.'s mind. and street now in the palm of your. machine on the dot com. france is welcoming leader socialist francois hollande is about to be officially sworn in as president there will be no time a wasted though it's straight down to business after his inauguration will had to berlin for an austerity showdown with chancellor angela merkel along has been campaigning for growth while markel 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 of 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 her own christian democratic party suffered major losses and election in the state of north rhine-westphalia a state viewed by many. it's a bellwether for gauging the opinion of german national politics as well so with macos each day its all eyes are now looking to see if a new a range a range meant can be sorted out between the leaders of europe's two largest economies francois long is heading he it's a straight after he is sworn in as french president he's being welcomed here by angle of merkel in 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 policy on land 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 fiscal pact is closed it will not be reopened all renegotiate it's going to be watching this 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 would seeing 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 you have polarized political views along believes that you have to spend money to create growth and to date you 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 they'll be more on tuesday but 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 they are no prisoners of their own misjudgments

their errors of judgment to know 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 service some two years ago when the that 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 online for you. how the hot girl group anonymous may be

the most powerful organization on earth firms and bomb makers admit it has access to every classified database in the u.s. and other countries. and archie talks to afghan president hamid karzai about his embattled country's next phase as nato hands control over more regions despite a rise in violence the full interview is our party dot com. margaret mother did not like we're going to become. his afraid. and she was very coldly. she filled. our lives frankenstein's monster. we don't have the problem. every time and effort is made by 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 fear 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 happening and people get so upset this is i'm sorry to say it's a form of emotional blackmail. if

you are. going to take three. green. green. green. free brown video for your media project free media r.t. dot com. joining our team at forty minutes past the hour torture in 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 murky trail and it's what join us all shakes on in his latest show here on r.t. we supported you had 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 supporting jihad again just a few months ago when they were supporting. would you even fighters who call themselves in in libya against gadhafi the world's whistleblower is back here on r t at eleven thirty am g.m.t. tell mesut. i speak to a former al qaeda suspect who was detained in drag ram and 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 or donate everything they believe they would be a breakdown in the war 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 narco meaning catastrophe and which is marked with a very large protests policy or 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 and i made the work i do 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 other 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

all our pleasure richey 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 like night they would crawl in with us and give us dry bread suit in hot water we still feel well they are murders and make you. still feels fear when she hears loud knocking at the door. i think they are coming to kill me i remember the brains 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 a 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 had met. his 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 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 being a holocaust survivor where her dog lie did not betray the jewish people i don't hate jews definitely not i really only converted from my children i feel completely accepted 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 for that we were shocked we

didn't know what to say it was so difficult to hear opened their mouths and nothing came out of that regard 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 that one let palestinians mourn is the nakba the 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. . israel. israel and law allows it to withhold funding from organizations that commemorate dark but day but tel aviv university is allowing a memorial site

a ceremony on a discount. yes and that's angering the country's leaders later israeli arab t.v. tells r.t. that to bring about 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 story. as them we can we have eleven natural human feelings we knew we recognized the suffer of the other side you'll bridge the gap between you and him i have. four of those who survived the holocaust i have. talked about it here indignity. and i see it disappear from the jewish

people. in europe as a victim. to have empathy for the sufferer victim victim. watch the full interview with israeli arabs are to be in ten minutes here on r.t. . take you around the world now for more of this hour's news a report has emerged of 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 that needs to be held accountable nato is refuted the claims saying its campaign was conducted with the president of 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 has 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 in the race against president barack obama in november selection. some very strange weather in bosnia's capital right now here basking in summer like sun it's now shivering under a blanket of snow as temperatures plunged to just above freezing the last may flurry was fifty years ago it won't last long though temperatures are expected to soar back over twenty degrees in the next few days. and you expedition is on its way to the international space station a so you spacecraft carrying two russian cosmonauts and a u.s. astronaut blasted off from kazakhstan and artie's it even goes scott 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 let's have a moment and take

a look at this amazing occurrence. here. now they are going to be docking with the international space station in two days on may seventh they will be in the orbits of. us 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 european japanese american vessels also will be doing several spacewalks as well one of those will be concerning the situation where these displays john 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 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. sara lee very exciting left off we do have business news coming out and dimitri is here with us for that it seems that it's not all that bad in europe today or it or is this just the calm before the storm well it's hard to tell but we are seeing the european markets gaining at this hour this is after g.d.p. data has come out in germany which show that the largest economy in the euro zone a grew a percent in the first quarter which was much better than expected and therefore what we're seeing is the footsie and the dax gaining around half a percent surely we will bring you figures on the markets in just a few seconds if used to be some kind of technical problem but this is on the back

of moody's downgrading twenty six its allium banks on monday and this came at a time of very bad time of course we see we're seeing the biggest names like it in these unique credit also being downgraded ten of the banks were downgraded so-called junk status while some saw their ratings cut by as much as four notches here you see said the banks were increasingly vulnerable to at least recession the effects of governments there's the measures all of them also put a negative credit watch meeting that further downgrades are possible. all right we have to look at the russian market so we they are not seeing much of a positive sentiment coming from europe or indeed the euro the obvious and my six are still declining around half a percent moving the my six as you can see energy shares are seeing a bit of a comeback because of better prices but financials are not that good and you can see the obvious the m i six this losing point six one point nine percent

respectively all right let's move over to the asian markets where we as we are seeing a mixed picture with the hang saying it gaining slightly. big loss in the previous session but the nikkei is down point. eight percent on the pressure coming from europe also of from greece notably with the political stalemate and of course there's still fears that the greece might exit the euro zone all together on the commodities market we are seeing light sweet bread to break cover a bit the slightly positive. and on the on the currencies markets the euro is gaining versus the dollar well it appears we've got some kind of a technical problem can't show you the the correct figures but surely we will be back next hour to bring you full updates and bring you up to date with with all the latest that's going on of the russian markets all right thanks for that out there

dmitri we'll. on the way we talk to an arab m.p. in israel's parliament about a day which defines the country's polarized people that's after the headlines in just a moment. hold

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