global financial headlines tune in to cause a report on r t. the latest news and week's top stories here on our team syria denies government troops carried out the massacre in the town of houla as the death toll rises to one hundred eight including forty nine children in russia points to evidence showing many of the dead were hacked to death rather than having been killed in the army shelling. and fears rise of more unrest in the region as religious factions in lebanon become increasingly divided over the syrian conflict. thousands of canadians among the three montreal this week a divine law designed to curb students and to wish and feel rallies which have often ended in violence and mass arrests.

watching r t thank you for joining us on the weekly i'm to bomb would say let's take a look at just story first the u.n. security council has been holding an emergency closed door session to discuss the massacre in the syrian town of houla a report delivered by the head of the observer mission to the country says of these one hundred eight people were killed in the attack on friday according to some diplomats and also pointed the finger to blame at the syrian government damascus are strongly denies being behind the attack as saying there is no evidence to confirm its troops involvement it blames anti regime gunmen for the massacre but there's no way to independently verify any of the claims the syrian rebels and meanwhile say the u.n. peace plan is dead and are calling on foreign partners to launch strikes against president assad moscow says and most of those who died in houla where executed well

and held weapons at close range and former pentagon official michael maloof told our team the details of the killings proves a third party's involvement. there's been allegations that there were gangs that are under the control of the government but the whole area was actually here is actually under the control of the free syrian army so i don't see how the government forces could have come in and systematically killed all these people up close and like that the opposition has been infiltrated by al qaeda that is al qaeda is that the actions the opposition is becoming much more better equipped. just to clean militarily and this is this is also very problematic i think you have certainly more radical elements that are coming in and plus are getting much more exotic arms in order to. arm the opposition itself.

for three things you turned from syria and knowledge spain's what she witnessed firsthand in the conflicts development. there is no cease fire simply doesn't exist this crisis now 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. is not the call to. the syrian people. of those who do not want to see peace and stability and security. 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 later 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 all of this is undermining massively the u.n. attends 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 was going to get into haifa from that is. the security council guaranteeing civilian protection that is not going to even attempt to abide by this society. for the second week running lebanon is seeing an increase of street violence over the

fate of its neighbor syria trouble erupted between sunni opponents of president assad's regime. and it's alawite supporters. spoke to the locals who fear their religious clashes could grow into another bloody conflict in the region i and other night 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 is 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 coalition led by the powerful share hezbollah is process while the opposition backs the uprising 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 aren't only down to the crisis in syria local observers like spanish journalist thomas alcove errol 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 one nine hundred seventy five nine hundred ninety seven war like religious divisions and the authorities didn't support it and now they're discovering it again they kept the 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 here makes sure that and means the political and

religious refits i remain more dangerous there are more the state 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 about the shia and sunni neighborhoods exist side by side in central beirut and in recent years it's been a stable peaceful arrangement but the syria effect means fear has now grip them feel very turned to a deadly bloody past which residents here desperately hope to avoid but that doing it is nothing that has nothing to do the way that it takes or what's happening in the region at the moment mysticism but then you said earlier guest violence in lebanon to some of the people have to leave for the world to follow that if it was to happen again how mud is seventy he remembers all the major conflicts more than lebanon has gone through and has a chilling forecast about the latest trouble surely you what i see no reminds me of

the nineteen eighty 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 gettin more and more likely this neighborhood in beirut where the violence started is known as the ticklish d.-d. meaning new roads many fear this road may lead the country to civil war. marry for nationality beirut lebanon. coming up later this hour a trigger for tension traces of highly enriched uranium are discovered at a new to facility in iran sparking more claims that terrans atomic program has military motives the latest is just ahead. and quit or keep cutting greeks are prepared to have this thing at the polls in the upcoming elections but the eurozone it seems is already preparing for its first farewell. this week

chicago became the stage for nato as the biggest ever summit as well as massive street protests thousands rallied against what they see as the blocs costly and deadly was many calling for nato as a dissolution and as our correspondent. now reports the protest was met with some heavy handed policing. 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 who are opposed to no because the machine was this rally fronted by iraq an afghan war vet the feeling betrayed by the system drove away their medals. after a minute of silence for those who perished in the u.s. trade 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 use these men may consider this conduct. 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 tons that they willingly deploy on people. earlier a smaller but louder march also took to the streets it should add to our capital is hard sure everyone here hopes to start a revolution or call it the chicago spring or 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 stakes in churkin are to chicago illinois. to the north in canada a new emergency law aiming to curb student protests against jewish and fee has backfired thousands in montreal filled the streets every day this week in defiance of the measure despite a police crackdown authorities now say they're planning to return to the negotiating table on monday. she can was at 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 watch people banging on their pots and pans 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 requires the precise roadmap of any more chore demonstration planned . the use of 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. oz 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 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 actually in february when it started those are just the students of kid back gross's 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 anti-poaching has a lot which is then ok turning out the protest actually fanned the flames of the movement make you get so much bigger than just the student uprising. now they measured signal there was supposed to quell the student and arrest has also provoked wants bedell positioning came back widening the scope of their rallies to

defending their right to assemble canadian journalist michael boy him who is covering the nightly demonstration says the government to will have to abandon its hardline stance. bill was seventy eight which is what that's assault and its goal is to calm 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 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 don't talk in egypt preliminary election results suggest that a muslim brotherhood tended and they pre-revolution prime minister would be tied in a neck and neck race for the country's top job however the first election after the

else thing off on his name mubarak last year has been marred by position of voter fraud and lack of transparency egyptians are now faced with a choice between an islamist and a member of the former regime and as a policy a reports of many that fear an uncertain future. 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 would think that this is all it is just no one chances for elections they wanted to free them now with years and monthly massacre that takes place will even kill 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 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 weren't able to field a single compelling candidate in the country's first post mubarak presidential elections. change quickly.

but many egyptians expected their mommies to be replaced by moderates like i'm almost certain the sick list a vice a former member of mubarak's regime and abdul mourn. a bushel to a local 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 from a far less an area that dr hassan a far believes would have unthinkable consequences i mean it's very cool has to be excluded and then they could be very very violent and they want to be on the bloodshed and i think that to me is very much aware of this it's very likely egyptians will vote in any islamist 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 dark and the brotherhood almost in the presidency but there's been nothing about this election 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. and when you're not near t.v. said head to r.t. dot com to get the latest globe of all the news from russia and around the world there you'll find amid the major scandals involving u.s. servicemen in war zones and nato forces in southwestern afghanistan ben troops from taking personal photos last. week on a kids in britain don't want rigid tourists they want civil war as the london olympics draw those why in the black flag

a go import golden tempted to no more at our t.v. dot com. welcome. 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 to iran is seeking to build a bomb and i reports suggest that there were traces of high level enrich uranium at one facility something to run claims it was a technical glitch they stayed to edit the discovery was blown out of proportion for political reasons and that the report to prove that the peaceful nature of its nuclear activities iran and the world powers agreed to continue their talks in moscow in the gene and risk advisor daniel wetness says there's now very 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. there's been some changes at the top in russia's political circles this week the latest being prime minister dmitry

medvedev being elected as the leader of the ruling united russia party he vowed to make the organization more open and transparent promised a major overhaul among party changes earlier the country's new government was formed as recently not rated president going to be unveiled his team of ministers some key officials they keep their posts about about three quarters of the cabinet are now new appointments including young reformers 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 in the governing elite. some other news making headlines around the world right now major air strike has killed a family of aids in afghanistan with six children among the dead officials there say the victims had no connection with the taliban or any other terrorist group civilian casualties inflicted by the coalition forces i splintering issue between

the afghan leadership and nato troops or jew are to by twenty fourteen. thousands of protesters have clashed with police outside nepal the parliament as rival parties inside held last minute talks about controversial constitutional changes several demonstrators and three policemen away injured in the violence the politicians again fail to agree on carving separate states based on the nitty it's seen as key in stabilizing the country which has struggled since the end of the civil war with more with pointers in two thousand and six. georgia as a scene is the biggest anti-government rally in three years with forty thousand people marching in tbilisi and it coincides with the start of campaigning for this autumn's parliamentary election the rally was organized by the country's richest men he's hoping to become prime minister. even you should believe of position we've been accusing president saakashvili of authoritarianism and failing the country's

poor. in greece of pinion polls indicate pro and to austerity parties are running neck and neck as next month's election draws closer it could decide whether greece stays or quit the euro and although e.u. leaders are publicly voicing support there privately battening down the hatches to prepare for greek exit put all of our has the details. 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 the 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 a question of moral hazard for example if you overdo it you pull out of the euro 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 a group for so far it's easier to pull out of europe or to go ireland i did here and also spain and italy in fact 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 is 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 are rapidly looking like a referendum on the euro in everything but name france's socialist president speaking after the informal 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 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 let old films be derailed by

those who want to promote speculative scenarios let's wait i do real of the greek people but it's wait and see time but with deep resistance in greece towards austerity there's no clear outcome in sight for this crisis these are all of a faulty belin. you're watching are to you from moscow still ahead for you this hour a special report on one of the darkest chapters in u.s. about history history say to that.

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