i'm trying hard is a big issue. the latest news and week's top stories here on our syria denies government troops carried out the massacre in the town of pull up 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 on the 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 amongst through montreal this week are defying the law designed to curb student and to wish and the rallies which have often ended in violence and mass arrests.

are. you watching r t this is the weekly with me to bomb would say let's take a look at the stories first the u.n. security council has been holding an emergency closed door session to discuss the message in the syrian town of houla a report 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 it also pointed the finger of blame at the syrian government damascus strongly denies being behind the attack saying there is no evidence to confirm if it's troops involvement in blames and to regime gunmen for the massacre but there's no way to independently verify any of the claims syrian rebels meanwhile say the u.n. peace plan is dead and now calling on foreign partners to launch airstrikes against president assad moscow says most of those who died in houla executed with handheld weapons at close range teas and. that has been flooding event as the no fly

zone united nations security council members cut their weekend short to hold a three hour closed door emergency meeting on the way to developments in syria where on friday in the bloodiest massacre since the anti-government clashes started on the ground a year ago took place where over one hundred people were killed including dozens of women and children prior to the meeting britain and france were calling for security council members to adopt a joint press statement pointing the fingers out the syrian government russia however who previously vetoed a regime change resolution on syria said it would prefer to wait to hear what the head of the un observer mission in syria had to say and this is why the meeting was adjourned now after the meeting a joint press statement to obligated nations security council members was released the security council has condemned these violence while and wings which included

artillery and tank shellings the security council says this is a breach of international law and greet each of syria's commitments under united nations security council resolutions but what's important here is that the council also can condemned close range killings including knives being used to slaughter people and the key here is that it's not clear as of yet who was behind these close range killings and russia says that the majority of the deaths took place at close range so it's important to discover who exactly stood behind that we do know of course that the syrian government has been denying any involvement in this massacre saying it had nothing to do with that we have heard from the deputy russian foreign minister say earlier that a clear and careful investigation into this massacre has to take place and the united nations observer mission is currently conducting such an investigation. party surfer it's recently returned from syria and now explains what she witnessed

firsthand in the conflicts development there is no ceasefire 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 yet i asked him where the final responsibility lies what's happening in the country. is not. the syrian people. who do not want to see peace and stability and security. particularly those who are calling. every now and then for arming the. smuggling of. 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. 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 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 answer 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 thousands is going to get into haifa a syrian on infinite is already. 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 its ana white supporters artie's maria spoke to 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 and told me down to the crisis in syria local observers like spanish john is thomas alcove editor says they are a symptom of a deep divide that's long bubbled under the surface but there's not a dozen there were many unresolved issues after the one nine hundred seventy five one hundred ninety seven war like religious division in the authorities didn't sort it out 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 hand makes sure that and means the political and religious refits i riven more dangerous well are more dished out of our liberal no

there are so many factions now sunni or shia. 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 a shia. sunni neighborhoods exist side by side in central beirut and in recent years it's been a stable peaceful arrangement but syria in fact means fear has now grieved 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 with it so what's happening in the region at the moment is just to support the new slowly against violence in lebanon to some of the people who have to live with the would be bad if it was to have been living in her mother's seventy he remembers all the major conflicts more than lebanon has gone through and as a chilling forecast about the latest trouble crueler you are what i see no reminds me of the night you know actually true 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 a civil war. mary for national party beirut lebanon. coming up later this hour a trigger for tension traces of highly enriched uranium i discovered at a nuclear facility in iran sparking more claims that its iran's atomic program has military motives the latest is just a hit. and quit to keep cutting rates prepared to have this say at the polls in the upcoming elections but the eurozone it seems is already preparing for its first farewell. in canada

a new emergency law aiming to curb student protests against jewish and feeds a 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 guy and their g.g. 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 parts and ten expressing anger over what they see as her cunny 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 with part of the precise roadmap of any more chore demonstration planned with the use of the could 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 various 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 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 kept back the vs 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 putting out the protest actually fanned the flames of the movement making it so much bigger than just the student uprising. they mergence you know that was supposed to quell the student unrest has also provoked a widespread opposition in tabac widening the scope of the reading to defending the right to assemble canadian journalist and michel boyer who is covering the nightly demonstrations says the government will have to abandon its hardline stance below seventy eight which is with that's its fault 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 cringing 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 sits down with the student organization since down to talk . in egypt preliminary election results suggest that a muslim brotherhood tended and a 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 ousting of his new mubarak last year has been marred by ickes ations 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 artie's policy a reporter many their fear an uncertain future. it's

a result that stunned many and has the potential to split the country into an islamist candidate touch it against a member of the former regime mohamed morsi is the choice of the powerful muslim brotherhood well as much if it was the last prime minister to serve under hosni mubarak egyptians know have to choose one or the other for the country's top job and no one is happy. mohammed morsi not him personally but because he is the candidate of new egypt so we can do that of the revolution which will make sure 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 were peeled among poor communities gives them the edge which is why those who took to turkey square last year are worried i'm sure of the martyrs who are like

the real thing that this is all you know is just no one chance for elections they wanted to free them now years in the monthly massacre that takes place when even though they don't even have the right to be listened in a big square power can be released to every single one but after which a fix trunk 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. presidential elections. not change. but many egyptians expected their mommies to be replaced by moderates like i'm almost certain the sick list of vice a former member of mubarak's regime and abdul more name for to look brought former

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 instead will continue to pull the strings even if from a farm it's an area that dr hassan a far believes would have unthinkable consequences i mean the thing has to be excluded and then they thought very very right and they're going to be on the bloodshed and i think the time is very much aware of this it's very likely egyptians will vote in every slot mr 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 its 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 art scene 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 and there you'll find a mid may just vandals involved with earth men in a war zone nato forces in southwestern afghanistan banned from taking personal photos plus. on a kids in britain don't want rich tories they want civil war as the london olympics draw in the rather it's find the black flag going full golden. tempted to no ball head to our teeth dot com.

welcome back talks this week between iran and the u.n. nuclear watchdog in bag that failed to produce any breakthrough and instead gave a new ground for speculations that tehran is seeking to build a bomb and i reports suggested there with traces of a high level invades your brain damaged one facility something to run claims was a technical glitch they stayed to edit the discovery was blown out of proportion for political reasons and that the port approved the peaceful nature of its nuclear activities iran and the world paul is agreed to continue the talks in moscow in mid june but risk advisor danielle witness says there is now very little hope of getting a compromise you know i look at iran and the west as sort of like mars versus 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. right tell us what you possibly think there is a poor deal between iran and the west the voted out dot com and look like this almost half of you who voted so far think it doesn't matter if the talk succeed as it won prevent a strike against iran over a third believe a deal is not possible because iran's a concessions

a will never set is why the west forty percent say they'll be no progress because iran will never agree to the west demands and just nine percent optimistically saying the five plus one talks in russia may nailed the deal let us know what you think at r.t. dot com. forty people have been detained as gay rights activists try to stage a rally in central moscow on sunday police had to intervene to prevent clashes between activists and conservative christians recently legislation adopted in send 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 i thought she was. some news that are making headlines around the world right now a major air strike has killed a family of eight in afghanistan with six children among the dead officials there say the victims had no connection with the taliban or other terrorist groups

civilian casualties inflicted by the coalition forces i splintering issue between the afghan leadership and nature troops are out by twenty fourteen. thousands of protesters have clashed with police outside their part of parliament as rival parties inside held last minute talks about controversial constitutional changes several demonstrators and three policemen were injured in the violence politicians again fail to read and prodding separate states based on ethnicity it's seen as key in stabilizing the country which has struggled since the end of the civil war with more with fighters in two thousand and six. ga scene is the biggest anti-government rally in three years away the forty thousand people marching into ballistic it coincides with the start of campaigning for this autumn's parliamentary election rally was organized by the country's richest man who is hoping to become prime minister dina even ashleigh's opposition movement

accuses the government of failing the country's poor. to increase opinion polls indicate pro and anti austerity parties are running neck and neck as next month's elections are draws closer it could decide whether greece stays or quit the euro and although you e.u. leaders are publicly voicing support privately battling down the hatches to prepare for a greek exit put all of the has the details should they stay or should you go germany's angela merkel is adamant. 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 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 what happens if it won't become reality then we are really in a mess and it means automatically that this particular domino effect of europe because then we have also a question of moral hazard for example if you overdo it you pull out of the euro zone every problem is nowhere then the others will begin to start ok it's a very nice solution for us the odds of our debts for so fast it's easier to pull out of europe or to go ireland i did here and all to 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 has 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's will 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 eurozone enters what could be its final act top e.u. figures say it's all down to its people but swayed for the people of greece to have their say on the seventeenth of june. and we've told sellers be derailed by those

who want to promote speculative scenarios let's wait i do the will 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. that's all the news that i had for you still ahead but before that i'll be back with a recap of our top stories don't go away. religion

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