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no jumpgate here on r.g.p. we are the future of a. new. syria denies opposition accusations it was behind friday's massacre that killed scores of civilians as some analysts point to a suspicious timing of the atrocity. the conflict from syria increasingly spilling into neighboring lebanon fueling fears of another civil conflict in the region. ten thousand canadians march against jewish and hikes and the new law to curb demonstrations despite previous protests and again clashes and mass arrests.
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six pm in moscow i met a good to have you with us here on our team as we bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news the syrian government is strongly denying being behind an attack on a string of villages friday where un observers confirmed more than ninety people were killed damascus rebuffed accusations from the opposition and some foreign leaders saying there is no evidence to confirm its troops involvement it blames and he regime gunman for the massacre but there's no way to independently verify any of the claims so far syrian rebels meanwhile say the u.n. peace plan is dead and they're calling on foreign partners to launch airstrikes against the assad regime france has already called for an urgent meeting of the friends of syria group which aims to remove the syrian leader and is funding the opposition political analyst abraham allusion thinks the circumstances of the recent spike it would have shed are suspicious of some of the families. though the syrian regime. so it doesn't make much sense to accuse the
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syrian army that they have committed these crimes and these crimes have come at a point when a political solution is slate the fore. this syrian question each time an international envoy is about to come into syria or is close to having some kind of resolution and the security council some of those massacre's suddenly among others i think the political timing is always very suspicious it would not make sense for the syrian army to commit these massacres and withdraw and then just let the rebels come and take photos and make a month that is about them. r.t. sarah ferguson returned from syria and explains what she witnessed firsthand in the complex development. there is no ceasefire so i see it simply doesn't exist this crisis now is just becoming increasingly militarized and having this devastatingly
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high death toll and so we actually spoke to the deputy foreign minister in syria he's in moscow just the other day i'll tell him where the final responsibility lies what's happening in the country right now is not. the syrian people it is those who do not want to see peace and stability and security in serbia particularly those who are calling and declaring every now and then for arming the groups. smuggling of arms and. from. country you see the rhetoric right from the beginning of the u.n. monitors being there has been now before the plans even reach this three month deadline that it's a failure well ok but it's one thing to say terminologies but what is what's the alternative you know constantly giving these problems without any other solution is
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only going to lead to further violence and you see in some of the western countries again continuing right through this peace plan calling for the arming of the opposition we know the arms of traveling into the country and all of this is undermining massively the u.n. attempts to implement a cease fire which is so important that you know that they're able to continue that work and get that done and i think it's very important. you know politics aside in this the human cost of this conflict is devastating and if the u.n. mission thousands is going to get into high free syrian army and some of these areas are already. security council guaranteeing civilian protection that is not going to even attempt to abide by this cease fire to. bring you more from syria's deputy foreign minister on his country's crisis later this hour here on our three. meanwhile the heat from the conflict in syria becoming increasingly felt in neighboring lebanon with street violence for the second week in a row trouble erupted between sunni opponents of the assad regime and its alawite
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supporters notion of spoke to locals fearing the religious clashes will spill into another bloody conflict in the region. i an overnight of street protests in beirut . it was sparked when thirteen lebanese pilgrims were kidnapped in syria apparently by groups linked to the syrian rebels the lebanese capital witnessed what it hadn't seen in years just who i am right about here but are moving to a real war between sunni and shia muslims and this is at least what i see in the last day. the reason the spillover from the chaos in neighboring syria shia muslims here generally support syria's president assad while most sunni's favor the rebels likewise lebanon's ruling calling led by the powerful share hezbollah is process while the opposition backs the uprising the situation is getting worse obviously in the region and this is having a spillover effect here in lebanon and where we're having to cope with the
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consequences of that there's also internal tension that's increasing there's a large flow of refugees and there's a lot of instability all around us. some though believe the problems in lebanon aren't only down to the crisis in syria local observers like spanish journalist thomas alcove etal says they are a symptom of a deep divide that's long bubbled under the surface but it's not a done there were many unresolved issues after the nine hundred seventy five nine hundred ninety seven war like religious division and the authorities didn't sort it out and now they're discovering it again they kept this situation of instability for many years and that's a good ground for a new conflict like a spark in a powder keg get out of it and the bad news is the resplendent of power in the cag or the recent history of warfare hand makes sure that and means the political and religious refits i remain more dangerous bowler more the start of our liberal know there are so many factions now sunni shia salafi what's really bad everybody has
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weapons not only has belarus they may think but everybody in every house and they use them not about the shia. sunni neighborhoods exist side by side in central beirut and in recent years it's been a stable peaceful arrangement but this syria in fact means fear has now greek's them feel over return to a deadly bloody past which residents here desperately hope to avoid but doing nothing that there's nothing to do. but it takes all what's happening in their region at the moment my sisters but then you simply against violence and level of this some of the people you have to put that would be a whole lot of pain for this to happen again and how much as seventy he remembers all the major conflicts more than lebanon has gone through and has a chilling full cost about the latest trouble sure there are you back what i see no reminds me of the nine hundred eighty two in two thousand and six israeli wars and the one hundred seventy five civil war and the two thousand and eight political
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uprising here that i didn't think i'd witnessed yet another conflict in my life. but it seems a worse case scenario could be getting more and more likely this neighborhood in beirut where the violence started is known as the to consider the deep meaning new roads many fear this road may lead the country to a civil war. beirut lebanon. later this hour a report from another country in the region that's on the road to change but could egypt's president be the choice between a rock and a hard place with worries that both the leading is limited and former regime candidates. but first this week chicago became not just a stage when it was biggest ever summit but also for the biggest protests the city and seen in years thousands rallied against what they see as the blocs costly and deadly wars many calling for nato's dissolution or he's anastasio turkey to witness how the protests met with some heavy handed policing.
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chicago under siege. the last couple of days have seen oceans of protesters thousands marching under a blistering sun to vent their anger at the military alliance the rebels and you know because of the war machine. this rally fronted by iraq and afghan war vets who are feeling betrayed by the system throw away their medals i am after a minute of silence for those who perished in the u.s. led wars. all hell breaks loose. like chaos but tons of people shoved and dragged police thrown on to their knees bleeding faces. one officer stabbed dozens of protesters arrested. these men may consider this conduct that they engaged in today unbecoming of the
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dignity that is demanded of them by their station hundreds and hundreds of police not just in riot gear but military armor with guns and but tons that they willingly deploy on people. a day earlier a smaller but louder march also took to the streets it's an ad capital which i'm sure everyone here hopes to start a revolution they're calling it the chicago spring like the arab spring. signs ripped off crowds clashed with police but times and police bikes used to block off the crowds with more blood in the chaos. with over a million dollars spent on new gear for chicago police a war breaks out with outraged americans fighting for change at home while the u.s. president is busy hosting a summit on the future of warfare abroad and stacy churkin r t chicago illinois. the north and canada country witnessed
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a surge in its own unrest this week as protests over college fees gain momentum despite the emergency law to curb the rallies and thousands of arrests over the last three months huge numbers turned out again saturday night in quebec artie's guided schicchi on reports from the latest demonstration. it's hard to gauge exactly how many people there are on the streets of montreal but those are thousands of people closer to people banging on their parts and ten expressing anger over what they see as her crony and measures undertaken by the government to suppress people's rights to freedom of assembly and freedom of expression the government of a good because adopted a new law just last week which makes it feel legal to assemble without authorities permission and require the precise roadmap of any more chore demonstration planned . the use they came up with the race this response to that requirement and as you can see that is the map of montreal such offensive response is also provoked by the
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police action against the protesters last week a day after the law was passed they rounded up and arrested over seven hundred people in just one day it was by all accounts that we've heard of very peaceful protests but it was huge according to there is reports the number of people marching on the streets of montreal reached up quarter of a million at some point even many of those who didn't care about to wish an hikes and complained about traffic even though they joined the ranks of protesters you see people from all age groups out there forty year old older people all kinds of people almost everyone who witnessed these massive protests say the canadian media are downplaying widespread is that in the police brutality because they say the media are controlled by the government and by those who support the government. you could see how the movement has evolved over the last three months or so it
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actually in february when it started those are just the students of came back versus the government ok back and those were generally very peaceful gatherings but the police feedback has been overwhelmingly oppressive and if that wasn't enough the government passed the end. typo's has a lot which is tory yeah the protest actually fanning the flames of the movement i think you get so much bigger than just the student uprising. the focus of the quebec protests is widening beyond jewish in fees to include the new law supposed to curtail the rallies but that's only hardening students' resolve kadian journalist michel boyer is covering the rallies and he says the authorities only option now is direct talks bill with seventy eight which is with that's its salt and its goal is to convert everything down it was established by the provincial government in canada we have a we have a charter and one of the articles in the charter is the right to protest peacefully
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and people and protesters now are saying is that certain provisions of this new law are and fringing on the freedom to protest peacefully so people are in shock even to retaliate even stronger we really don't know what's going to happen really until the until the government sits down with the student organization since down to talk . coming up later this hour a trigger for attention traces of higher enriching uranium discovered at a nuclear facility in iran sparking more claims that terence atomic program has military motives the latest on that just ahead. and europe keeping its powder dry in case greece gives up its upcoming election could be its final say on quitting or putting border to keep cutting but the eurozone is already preparing for its first farewell. but before we get to that egypt's early election results point to a runoff between a muslim brotherhood candidate and a former prime minister of the mubarak era the country's
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a storage first presidential election since the uprising saw a low turnout and numerous complaints of ballot violations but as are his policy reports regardless of the outcome egypt's future could be bleak. it's a result that stunned many and has the potential to split the country into an islamist candidate pitted against a member of the former regime mohamed morsi is the choice of the powerful muslim brotherhood well as much afic was the last prime minister to serve under hosni mubarak egyptians and now have to choose one or the other for the country's top job and no one is happy. because he has become the. candidate of the revolution should we get rid of the remnants of the regime and prevent the country from moving backwards but the muslim brotherhood is tainted by the same accusation and critics fear the group will stay egypt away from democracy into hardline islamic rule already the brotherhood controls more than half the
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seats in the new egyptian parliament and they repealed among poor communities gives them the edge which is why those who took to tell his square last year are worried i'm sure of the martyrs where life they will think that this is all it is just no one chanting for elections they wanted to free them now with years and monthly massacre that takes place when people killed those who don't even have the right to be listened in the big square how can the release of the east and the last but which are fixed wrong showing also threatens to undo everything mariam and her friends fought for shafiq is deeply hated by many egyptians and was pelted with stones and shoes when he went to vote but for that the taxpayer revolutionaries would be able to field a single compelling candidate in the country's first post mubarak presidential elections. change quickly.
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but many egyptians expected the monies to be replaced by moderates like i'm almost certain the sick list a vice a former member of mubarak's regime and of don't want. and look what form of brotherhood members adding to their woes egyptians also fear the military that's been ruling the country for the past fifteen months won't stick to its promise to hand over power and in state will continue to pull the strings even if from a farm a scenario that dr hassan a fall believes would have unthinkable consequences i mean it's very cool has to be executed and then they thought it would be very very violent and they're going to be on the throne of blood and i think that to me is very much aware of this it's very likely egyptians will vote in the end it's not just president marking one of the most dramatic political turnarounds in history after all it wasn't that long ago that the muslim brotherhood was outlawed and it's members imprisoned now it's mubarak in the dock and the brotherhood almost in the presidency but there's been
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nothing about the cynics and that's been predictable and until a new constitution is approved it's still not clear what powers the new president will have but whoever wins his hands will be full of problems here run deep and economic and political frustrations are not that far from spilling over into different protests what is reality cairo the timeline of the turmoil also available at r.t. dot com along with many other stories for you texas tracking many of its schoolchildren is every step forcing them to carry microchip cards enquires plus. hundred twenty five million viewers six russian and one massive euro vision song contest grannies into second check it out on long.
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talks this week between iran and the u.n. nuclear watchdog in baghdad failed to produce any breakthrough and instead gave new ground for speculations that toronto is trying to build a bomb. and i e a report suggested there were traces of high level enrich uranium at one facility something terror on claims was a technical glitch islamic republic added the discovery was blown out of proportion for political reasons and the report prove the peaceful unique use nature of its nuclear activities iran said that world powers agreed to continue their talks in moscow in mid june risk advisor daniel wagner says there could be little hope of getting a compromise. you know i look at iran and the west as sort of like mars vs venus they want completely different things even if the west was inclined to ease the sanctions that are proposed for july and they can't simply turn off the spigot and that's exactly what iran wants in the west i think what the west and
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israel are looking for is something which iran is simply not going to give them they're looking for a complete cessation of enrichment they're looking for a reversal of the process that has gone on for more than a decade now i just don't see how this is going to happen fortunately there's plenty of oil in the world markets and those nations that need to find alternative sources of oil are likely to be able to do so and those nations that have become accustomed to working with the iranian central bank will find other ways to do business with iran if that's what they need to do. tell us what possibility you think there is for a deal between iran and the west here's how the votes stack up now at our dot com almost half think it doesn't matter if the talks succeed it won't prevent a strike on iran nearly a third think a deal isn't possible because iran's concessions will never satisfy the west fourteen percent i think nobody no agreement because there are one will never agree to the west demands and ten per cent come on people ten per cent are optimistic
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saying the five plus one talks in russia will nail the deal what do you think about our conduct. forty people detained is gay rights activists try to hold it authorized a rally in central moscow this sunday police had to intervene and make arrests on both sides to prevent clashes that can give demonstrators and conservative christian activists who showed up at a counter protest at the rally moscow authorities have a deadly forbidden gay pride marches in the russian capital the official stance has been because harsh public opposition to such gatherings and the dangers of attacks from anti gay activists. i want. time now for some other stories making headlines across the globe a nato airstrike has killed a family of eight and afghanistan with six children among the dead officials say the victims had no connection with the taliban or any other terror group civilian casualties are splintering in splintering issue between the afghan leadership and nato whose troops are due to leave by two thousand and fourteen. firefighters in
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china rescued a sixty year old man who became trapped in this car in a river his vehicle came off the road and into a river swollen from heavy rains forcing the driver to cling on until the rescuers got there after being tied to a rope was eventually pulled to safety. struts aboard the international space station at the entrance of the first private supply ship two days after it docked it's the first ever commercial cargo delivery to man's only space outpost the unmanned dragon capsule was launched by the us company space x. nasa retired its shuttle fleet and step back from orbital missions in favor of private companies greek voters keeping the e.u. on tenterhooks is opinion polls indicate pro and anti austerity parties running neck and neck is next month i look next month's election draws near it could decide whether greece stays or quits the euro and although e.u.
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leaders are publicly voicing support their privately battening down the hatches to prepare for a greek exit peter offer has more should they stay well should they go germany's angela merkel is adamant if you mind is that my thought i would like to say that i think we agree we want greece to remain in the euro zone we know that it's the same for a majority of greek people. but it seems plans are being drawn up in case those hopes fail the german blunders bank says the situation in greece is extremely worrying but isn't predicting the demise of the single currency should the greeks quit the euro a view certainly not shared by all if it won't happen if it won't become reality then we are really in a mess and it means automatically that this point will a domino effect all over europe because then we have also a question of moral hazard for example if you overdo it you pull out of the euro
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zone and every problem is nowhere then the others will begin to start ok it's a very nice solution for us we're all sort of adepts for so fast it's easier to pull out of europe or to go ireland i did here and also spare in an interview in fact year zero skeptics feel that drastic german government action may be needed if europe's dominant economy is to avoid being swamped in the economic mire which is so-called corrects it or greek exit could cause it's not just here in germany that a post greek eurozone has being discussed finance ministers from all member states have been drawing up contingency plans to try and determine how a greek exit would affect their economies european leaders continue to throw their support behind greek single currency membership the country's rerun elections next month the rapidly looking like a referendum on the euro and everything but name france's socialist president
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speaking after the informal brussels summit looked like a man trying to woo the greek electorate with rather softer talk than austerity. if . it was mentioned that we would be using the structural fund to support the growth efforts of greece as well so the greek voters can be confident as to what support will come after june the seventeenth. so as the future of greece in the euro zone enters what could be its final act top e.u. figures say it's all down to its people let's wait for the people of greece to have their say on the seventeenth of june and we will not let ourselves be derailed by those who want to promote speculative scenarios let's wait i do the will of the greek people but it's a wait and see time but with deeper existence in greece towards austerity there's no clear outcome in sight for this crisis these are all other beilin. i'll
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