syria denies opposition accusations it was behind friday's massacre that killed scores of civilians as analysts point to the suspicious timing of the atrocity. as the conflict from syria increasingly spills into neighboring lebanon fueling fears of another civil conflict in the region. and in the weeks of the stories ten thousand canadians march against jewish and hikes and the new law to curb demos despite previous clashes and mass arrests. hello welcome this is r.t.

from moscow you're watching the weekly a roundup of the day's main news and the headlines for the past seven days with me kevin oh into night and first the syrian government strongly denies being behind an attack on a string of villages on friday where u.n. observers confirmed over ninety people were killed damascus rebuffed the accusations from the opposition and some foreign leaders saying there's no evidence to confirm its troops involvement it blames anti regime government for the massacre but there's no way to independently verify any of the claims the syrian rebels meanwhile say the u.n. peace plan is dead and they're calling on foreign partners to launch airstrikes against president of sad france has already called for an urgent meeting of the friends of syria group would change to remove the syrian leader and is funding the opposition the u.n. security council set now to hold an emergency session later sunday at russia and britain. political analyst a prima louche finds the circumstances of the recent spike in syrian bloodshed suspicious. some of the families go. further. though the

syrian regime. so it doesn't. make much sense to accuse the syrian army that they have committed these crimes and fuck these crimes have come at a point when a political solution is slate the for the syrian question each time an international envoy is about to come into syria or as close to having some kind of resolution in the security council some of those massacres suddenly amar's 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 documentaries about them. quality sara firth recently returned from syria explains what she witnessed firsthand in the conflicts development. there is no cease fire so if it simply

doesn't exist this crisis that is just becoming increasingly militarized and having this devastatingly 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 like the ball is not the call to the syrian government now the syrian people. out of those who do not want to see peace and stability and security in syria particularly those who are calling and declaring every now and then for arming the. smuggling go. into this. from neighboring countries 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 terminology what is what's the

alternative you know constantly giving these problems without any other solution is only going to lead to further violence and you think you know 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 and the human cost of this conflict is devastating and if the u.n. mission that is going to get into high free syrian army from it is already title safely without the security council guaranteeing civilian protection that is not going to even attempt to abide by this this is five to one. so first our correspondent there will bring more from syria's deputy foreign minister and his country's crisis next hour here on out as well. the heat from the conflict. in

syria speak increasingly fell to neighboring lebanon where street violence for the second week in a row trouble erupted between sunni opponents of president assad's regime and its alawite supporters at israel for national spoke to locals who fear the religious clashes could now spill into another bloody conflict in the region. i an overnight of street protests in beirut i 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 as who i am not 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 coalition 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 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 and tony down to the crisis in syria local observers like spanish journalist thomas alcove editor says they are a symptom of a deep divide that's long bubbled under the surface but there's not a does there were many unresolved issues after the one nine hundred seventy five one thousand nine hundred seventy war like religious division and the authorities didn't sort it out and now they're discovering it again and 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 the recent history of warfare hand makes sure that and means the political and religious reefs are riven more dangerous well or more the start of our liberal know

there are so many factions now sunni shia salafi what's really bad everybody has weapons not only has belarus they may think but everybody in every house and they use them or thought about the shia. sunni neighborhoods exist side by side in central beirut and in recent years it's been a stable peaceful arrangement but the fear in fact means fear has now greet them feel very turn into a deadly bloody past which residents here desperately hope to avoid but doing it is nothing that is nothing to do with politics or what's happening in the region at the moment it's just but then you severely against violence and living here some of the people have to leave for the world to forty five feet but it is still happening and now mud is seventy he remembers all the major conflicts more than lebanon has gone through and as a chilling forecast about the latest trouble surely you know what i see no reminds

me of the ninety two in two thousand and six israeli wars and the one hundred seventy five civil war and the two thousand and eight political uprising here 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 ticklish d.d. meaning new road many fear this road may lead the country to civil war. mary for national party beirut lebanon later this report from another country in the region that's on the road to change but could egypt's presidential runoff be the choice between a rock and a hard place we ask with worries over both the leading islamist and former regime candidates. this past week chicago became not just a stage for nato's biggest ever summit but also for the biggest protest the city's seen in years thousands rather than against what they see as the blocs costly and

deadly wars many calling for nato to solution a correspondent in this is it could have witnessed how the protests met with some heavy handed policing. ah 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 wants to know because . this rally fronted by iraq an afghan war vets feeling betrayed by the system rolled away their medals. after a minute of silence for those who perished in the u.s. led wars. all hell breaks loose. chaos but tons of people shoved and dragged police thrown onto their knees bleeding faces. one officer stabbed dozens of protesters arrested someday these men

may consider this conduct that they engaged in today unbecoming of the 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 tongs that they willingly deploy on people. a day earlier a smaller but louder march also took to the streets it's an ad capital is large 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 the summit and the future of warfare abroad and stacie

churkin r.t.e. chicago they were in with. momentum for the north and counted the country witnessed a surge in its own unrest this last week as protests over college fees gain momentum despite the emergency law to curb the rallies and thousands of arrests over the past three months huge numbers turned out again on saturday night in quebec has gotten shit canned was of the latest demo. 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 begging on their part than ten expressing anger over what they see as her crony and measures undertaken by the government to suppress people's right to freedom of assembly and freedom of expression the government of a good because adopted a new law just last week which makes it illegal to assemble without authorities permission and with part of the precise roadmap of any more chore demonstration planned the only you could they came up with the risk this response to that

requirement and as you can see that is the map of montreal such offensive response is also provoked by the 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 various reports the number of people marching on the streets of montreal reached a porter 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 the 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 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 this and typo test a lot which is then ok putting out the protest actually fanned the flames of the movement making it so much bigger than just the student uprising. the focus of the protests is that widening beyond choose to include the new law is supposed to could tell the rallies has been introduced but it appears of only harden the students resolve canadian journalist michel boy is covering the rallies he says the authorities only option now he thinks is direct talks. bill was seventy eight which is without its faults and its goal is to convert everything down it was established

by the provincial government. in canada we have we have a charter and one of the articles in the charter is the right to protest peacefully and people and protesters now are saying is there certain provisions of this new law and fringing on the freedom to protest peacefully so people are in fact even to retaliate even stronger we really don't know what's going to happen really until the until the government since down with the student organization so it's down to talk coming up here later this hour on the program a trigger for tension traces of carbon rich to brady in the discovered of the nuclear facility in iran it's more claims the rounds of time a program called military motives but the latest on my just ahead and getting ready in case greece gives up its upcoming election could be the country's final say on quitting or to keep cutting but the eurozone is already preparing for its first farewell. but next 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 historic first presidential election saw the uprising. see not only a moderate turnout but numerous complaints of ballot violations as well as artie's pointlessly are found 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 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 there's a new 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 what we stand how last but of 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 able to field a single compelling candidate in the country's first post mubarak presidential elections. not change quickly.

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 abdul more name or. a look or form of brotherhood member 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 instead will continue to pull the strings even if from a farm a scenario that dr hassan a far believes would have unthinkable consequences i mean the thing has to be executed and then they thought it would be very very here right on and there will be a little bloodshed and i think that to me is very much aware of this it's very likely egyptians will vote in and 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 nothing about this election that's been predictable and until 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 the r t cairo for gold the whole timeline of the turmoil on line r.t. dot com with many of the stories as well for you like these texas tracking at school kids every step forcing them to carry microchip i.d. cards in clubs or even aware that a good idea or not there's no online you couldn't come in the store if you see you start to go wrong did you miss it last night well one hundred twenty five million viewers didn't six grow mars one massive eurovision song contest but who beat those into second place to give you a clue think. talks

this week between iran and the u.n. nuclear war. baghdad failed to produce any breakthrough and instead gave new ground for speculation that iran is seeking to build a bomb and i report suggested that there were traces of high level enrich uranium at one facility that's something to run claims is a technical glitch islamic state added that discovery was blown out of all proportion for political reasons and that the report proved the peaceful nature of its nuclear activities around the world powers agreed to continue the talks here in moscow in mid june but risk advisor done the work that told me there's no 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 they can't simply turn off the spigot and that's exactly what iran wants in the west i think what the west and 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 is sort of ask you about online we want to know what you think about the possibility of a deal now between iran and the west if you go to our team dot com you can check it out and i will say this is telling you so far almost half of you voted so far think

it doesn't matter if the same because you don't think it prevent the spread against around a third of us believing it deals not possible because iran's concessions will never satisfy the west fourteen percent it's going to be no progress because iran will never agree to the west just ten percent of you are optimistic about these talks coming up in russia the five plus one top. same battening nail the deal party dot com is the place to have your say. here there was some changes of the top in russia's political circles the latest being probably mr dmitri medvedev elected as the leader of the ruling united russia party evolved to make the group more open and transparent and promised a major overhaul among parting chiefs earlier the country's new government was formed to recently inaugurated president putin unveiled his table ministers and some key officials kept their post but about three quarters of the cabinet are new appointments many from young reformists and market liberals there's been a wave of major anti-government protests in russia's main cities in recent months

as tens of thousands gathered to demand a shake up of the governing elite more world news making headlines for you a nato airstrikes killed a family of eight in afghanistan along with six children among the dead there officials say the victims had no connection with the taliban or any other terrorist group civilian casualties are a splintering issue between the afghan leadership and nato right now is troops by twenty fourteen. firefighters in china rescue this sixty year old man who became trapped with his car in the river is vehicle came off the road and. the river is swollen by heavy rains apparently forcing the driver to cling on until rescuers arrived thankfully this happy ending he was tied to the rope and eventually pulled to safety that goes to stay with us for a second lucky escape. no word on his car though. astronauts aboard the international space station invented the first private supply ship two days after a dot it's the first ever commercial cargo delivery to man's only outpost in space the unmanned dragon capsule was launched by an american company called space x.

nasa of course is retired it shuttle fleet and step back from orbital missions in favor of operations like you're seeing here that flight director greek voters are keeping the e.u. on tenterhooks as opinion polls indicate pro and anti austerity parties are running neck and neck as next month's election draws closer it could decide whether greece stays or quits the euro and although you leaders are publicly voicing support privately battling down the hatches to prepare for a greek exit is artie's peter all over. should they stay or should they go germany's angela merkel is adamant too if you mind is that for my part 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 bundesbank 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 will spill a domino effect all over europe because then we have also the question of moral has a poor example if you overdo it you pull out of the euro zone and every problem is nowhere then the others will also begin to start ok it's a very nice solution for us we all sort of adepts for so fast it's easier to pull out of the euro portugal ireland i did here and also spare no need to be in fine hero 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 are so called corrects it or greek exit could cause it's not just here in germany that a post greek eurozone is 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 in everything but name france's socialist president speaking after the informal brussels summit looked like a man trying to woo the greek electorate with rather softer talk than a sturdy. if. it was mentioned that we would be using the structural fund to support the growth efforts of greece as well so that 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. be derailed by those who

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