the latest news and week's top stories here on r t 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 russia points to evidence showing many of the dead were hacked to death rather than having been killed in 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 are mostly montreal this week defying a law designed to curb student entry to wishing the rallies which have often ended in violence and matter rests.

you're watching r t it's four o'clock right now in moscow thank you for watching the weekly with me to bomb would say let's take a look at our first story the u.n. security council has been holding an emergency closed door session to discuss the massacre in the syrian town of houla reported delivered by the head of the observer mission to the country says at least one hundred eight people were killed in the attack on friday according to some diplomats and also pointed the finger of blame at the syrian government damascus strongly denies being behind the attack saying there's 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 meanwhile say the u.n. peace plan is dead and are calling on foreign partners to launch airstrikes against president assad moscow says' most of those who died in houla were executed with

handheld weapons at close range for more on this so we can now cross live to new york in our days and this does see a chill kinda morning in the event at the u.n. for us thank you so much for joining us on this to see now the security council blames damascus for the massacre despite saying the situation so wrong the killings remains murky what more can you tell us. right it seems that we've lost connection there with and as the sea now artists are further recently returned from syria and now explains what she witnessed firsthand in the conflicts development let's hear from her. there is no ceasefire so i see it 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 asked him where the

final responsibility lies what's happening in the country right now is not. the syrian people. who do not want to see peace and stability and security area particularly those who are calling on declaring every now and then for arming the. smuggling of. from neighboring countries you see the rhetoric right from the beginning of again 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 that 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 only going to later further violence anything 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. it tends 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 thousand it's going to get even higher a free syrian army in senate is already. the security council guaranteeing civilian protection that is not going to even attempt to abide by this society. now 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. alive supporters are. 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 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 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 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 there'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 short 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 reefed i remain more dangerous they were more the start of our liberal know there are so many factions now sunni shia salafi he's. 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 over it turn into a deadly bloody past which residents here desperately hope to avoid but doing it is nothing that has nothing to do. so what's happening in the region at the moment this is a good thing you said early against violence in lebanon yes a lot of people have to leave but that would be bad if it was to happen again and how much is seventeen he remembers all the major conflicts more than lebanon has gone through and has a chilling forecast about the latest trouble truly are 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 road many fear this road may lead the country to a civil war. narration ocean r.t. beirut lebanon right we're going to go back now to new york with an s. the c. a chicken now who's going to give us a little more insight on the houla massacre on a society can you hear me. and yelling at me. hi thank you thank you to you thank you for we can see you know i hear you clearly that the security council blames damascus for the massacre despising the situation surrounding the killings remains murky what more can you tell us on this. this seems to be a little mouse chewing on our cables there we've lost our nice to see again let's go now to what's happening online right now coming up later this hour a trigger for tension traces of high bridge you discovered at a new to facility in iran sparking more koreans that runs a comic program has military motives the latest is just ahead.

and quit dream greeks are prepared to have this day at the polls in the upcoming elections but the eurozone it seems is already preparing for its first farewell. in canada and new emergency law aiming to curb student protests against a wishin fees 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 are planning to return to the negotiating table on monday artie's a guy on a chichi 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 to people banging on their pots and pans expressing anger over what they see as her cunny 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 feel legal to assemble without authorities permission and with part of the precise roadmap of any more chore demonstration planned with 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 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 order 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 the first is 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 antipolo test a lot which is then ok clearing out the protest actually fanned the flames of the movement making it so much bigger than just the student uprising. i and if you can they're reporting now the emergency law that was supposed to quell the student and arrest has also provoked widespread opposition into a back why didn't the scope of the rallies to defending the right to assemble

canadian journalists michelmore boya who is covering the nightly demonstrations says the government will have to abandon its hardline stance bill was seventy eight which is well that's assault 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 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 a preliminary election results suggest that the muslim brotherhood candidate and the pre-revolution prime minister will be tied in a neck and neck race for the country's top job however the first election after the

austin of whose name mubarak last year has been marred by accusations of voter fraud and lack of transparency egyptians are now faced with a choice between and islamist and a member of the former regime and as archie's policy or reports many they fear an answer to 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 john the elections they wanted to free them now years and monthly must secure that peace peace will be killed that we don't even have the right to be listened in a 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 presidential elections. change quickly.

but many egyptians expected their mommies to be replaced by moderates like i'm almost the sick list of vice a former member of mubarak's regime and abdomen. name a bush or to a local former 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 thought would be very very right and there would be a little bloodshed and i think that to me is very much aware of that 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 dock 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 scope of all the news from russia and around the world i made a major scandals involving u.s. servicemen in war zones and nato forces in southwestern afghanistan and troops from taking personal photos plus. on ikea's in britain don't wondred stories they want civil war as the london olympics draw near those flying the black flag or going for gold instead of a tart tempted you know boy head to our tea dot com. welcome

back talks this week between iran. the u.n. nuclear watchdog in baghdad failed to produce any breakthrough and instead gave new ground for speculations that terror on is seeking to build a bomb and i reports suggest that there were traces of high level enrich uranium at one something to run claims was a technical glitch the islamic state at the discovery was blown out of proportion for political reasons and that the report approved the peaceful nature of its nuclear activities iran and the world powers agreed to continue their talks in moscow jean and risk advisor daniel wegner 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. forty people have been detained as gay rights activists tried to stage a rally in central moscow on sunday police had to intervene to prevent clashes

between the activists and conservative christians reasoned religious lation adopted in st petersburg and other russian cities covering what's been termed the propaganda of homosexuality has angered gay rights groups they claim the precise definition of propaganda is unclear and open to abuse by authorities. for some other news making headlines around the world right now and major air strike has killed a family of eight in afghanistan with six children among the dead of the 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 whose troops are out by twenty fourteen. thousands of protesters have clashed with police outside nepal's parliament as rival parties inside held last minute talks of all controversial constitutional changes several demonstrators and three policemen were injured in the violence the politicians

again failed to agree on having separate states based on ethnicity it's seen as in stabilizing the country which a struggle since the end of the civil war with mao was fighters in two thousand and six. georgia scene is the biggest antigovernment rally in three years with forty thousand people marching into ballistic because insiders 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 with the event just being opposition movement accuses president shuckers view of authoritarianism and leaving the country's poor. in greece opinion 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 quits the euro and all the e.u. leaders are publicly voicing support privately battening down the hatches to prepare for greek exit peter oliver has the details. should they stay or

should they go germany's angela merkel is adamant to feel mine 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 bund as punk 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 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 the europe or to go ireland i did you know and also spain and italy 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 carex 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 brussels summit looked like a man trying to woo the greek electorate with rather softer talk than austerity.

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 but it's wait for the people of greece to have their say on the seventeenth of june and we will not let ourselves be by those who want to promote equity of scenarios let's wait i do we all of the greek people but it's wait and see time but with deeper resistance in greece towards austerity there's no clear outcome in sight for this crisis these are all of r.t. berlin. kindergarten story time should be about adventure and fairy tales but at

one nursery in lead it became a nazi wartime weaponry displayed by two right wing nationalist toddlers may not have fully understood what they were being taught but there's been a fear as public reaction to the for to us as i explained. this was described as a lesson of patch or it isn't in a kindergarten in riga. was. in fact the man who wore the uniform of lot of us as sas legion which fought on the nazi german side in the second world war one of the outfits even boasts the notorious thunder like symbol moreover they let the three year olds play with real nazi weapons. this is a grenade if you pull this buying just like a party popper christmas. despite nazi symbols being outlawed in law to be along with soviet emblems no legal consequences have followed so far the owner of this kindergarten who is also

a right wing nationalist party member sees nothing wrong. with this is our history and no way to tell our children who the legion is will we see in this kindergarten and i will decide how will teach our children how we will make them proud of their country and its warriors but the incident has sent shock waves across the land this woman asked us to hide her face fearing nationalists could abuse her after the interview she says her family will now have to consider her four year old daughter's future education little teen with normal it some thinkable things like that must never happen close to children and i'm strongly against it i'm scared if things like that become frequent i'll have to take my daughter from the kindergarten and keep her. on the head of a lot of his anti nazi movement says the incident is not a one off such lessons he claims occur on the regular basis in schools national wide. they usually happen on sixteenth of march known as the country's legion day

when former assets fighters marched the streets of riga along with right wing politicians and here with supporters similar gatherings happen and you only in another baltic state with a difficult history as. a parliament. i remember speaking at the european parliament trying to convince deputies not love is a nazi free country now i have to admit a great change due to the action of some movements neo nazi is a stronger here with the youth don't understand the horrors of naziism and easily fall into this propaganda since gaining independence the baltic states have been vocally critical of the soviet period of their history calling it an occupation those who fought against the u.s.s.r. are called freedom fighters by some here even despite the fact they were allied with a genocidal nazi regime the most murderous in history what concerns many here now is that such lessons of in the long run will not teach history but simply breed

a future generation of neo nazis in the heart of free europe this latest incident has once again shown how divided the lobby in society is about its past and while the people here are still trying to determine whether these men were right or wrong many still agree that bringing real weapons book three year old was a major offense at least from a moral point of view. r.t. reporting from riga in latvia. those were the new. will be joined by you know. including the final curtain. that's the next thirty minutes a right. religion

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