russia warns against placing the plane for a massacre in the syrian city of who are sold on the government saying opposition government may also have been involved. as the syrian conflict drags on it's being fueled by weapons flowing from neighboring lebanon and a legal arms dealers are driven by profit and face. and after weeks of bombing student protests in canada and hundreds of arrests talks over she wish you costs are set to resume and it's no longer just about soaring fees. on line on the screen this is r t with a twenty four hours

a day life from our studios here in central moscow good to have you with us this russia says both the syrian government and opposition government may have been involved in the deaths of more than one hundred civilians including over thirty children in the city of houla over the weekend speaking after a meeting with his british counterpart in moscow foreign minister sergey lavrov warned against assigning blame for the massacre. as the details. russia is calling for an international investigation to be held looking into what happened in houla while the west including the united states and great britain are pointing their fingers at us sidewall the foreign minister a lot of roth says that it's too early to make any conclusions since it's clearly the situation is not one sided at all. but to do at the un security council on sunday the head of the international peace mission in syria confirm that in houla there were signs of artillery shelling but there were also many cool places we've had to find from close distance signs of

a slaughter google says both sides apparently had a hand in the deaths of innocent people including women and children is under the control of the militants do since also surrounded by government troops with the un security council has asked the un observer mission on the ground to best gauge what exactly happened in houla we believe moscow is not lifting the responsibility from assad for the violence but is stressing that equal pressure has to be applied both on the authorities and on the opposition and it's not only vital for them to put their weapons down as peaceful you negotiate but also for the international community for all the outside players to reach one unified position and so you are off says only in that case could be peace plan he fulfilled which is currently the only way out of the crisis also outlined that moscow is in contact with both the and the opposition and he says that from these contacts with the rebels it's clear

that some forces outside of syria but within the region are giving them other signals which are not aimed at fulfilling the peace plan but are actually aimed at violating boosting calls for foreign military intervention the foreign minister has called on these players to make up their minds whether they want regime change or the stop of the deaths of people in syria. the u.s. in the meantime is once again warning syria it could face an intervention america's top military officer warned the pentagon is prepared to act militarily if and when it is asked he want to talk to geo political analyst eric draitser join me live from the states there in new york just how seriously is military action against syria being discussed now i think it's being taken quite seriously we've seen a precedent in the last ten fifteen years with the united states in particular in the balkans if we remember the pretext of suppose that serbian ethnic cleansing in

kosovo was one of the main reasons why president clinton was able to lead a military intervention in kosovo the same is true here in syria the situation at the united states doesn't seem to be able to control and so it looks like the who what massacre may be the pretext that they would like to use in order to launch a military intervention in order to instigate regime change which has been the goal all along and you're drawing that parallel with what happened serbia where there wasn't a u.n. security resolution you saying that when it trashing could take place bypassing the un it's entirely possible we've seen the precedent set recently in libya and in particular going around using the united nations but using nato as the military arm to actually carry out interventions we could see something happening in syria using nato instead of the united nations some would say the nato intervention in libya was a success would you agree with that and if if if so if it was a success why isn't it being applied to syria. well i mean if you if you want to

call it a success i think you'd probably be not talking to the fifty to one hundred thousand dead libyans who would have something to say about whether or not that was a success the situation in syria is markedly different because i think that the united states and their western allies thought that the assad regime would have been toppled by now and because the assad regime has been holding on for so long it seems that the united states and saudi arabia qatar and the rest of their allies are down to their final option which would be military intervention not an ideal situation for them or one that they're prepared to go to not an ideal situation what would the consequences then be all of managing to mention well the consequences of course for the people of syria would be dire you'd be looking at something probably far larger than what we've been saw in libya the consequences in the region would of course be very significant syria is closely allied with the might in asia government in iran as well as has a lot so we could see a regional conflicts far out of that in particular would be following the conflict

between sunni and shiite which is precisely what the united states this morning to see all along these be their ally in saudi arabia versus the enemy in iran the rebels saying the peace plan is dead would you agree with that i think that peace plan has been subverted from since the very beginning as russia has stated repeatedly the goal was to try to allow the peace plan to be put in place and to actually take hold but instead we saw an immediate transformation into the use of terrorist tactics into the use of subverting this peace plan for the precise reason that they knew that peace plan was in the interests of the assad government and of the other governments in the region who wanted to avoid a military intervention so if that peace plan were allowed to continue military intervention would be off the table i would try to live in new york thanks so much for your time today and thoughts on this thanks for joining thanks so much. and while the rage over the massacre in houla spread an eagerness to illustrate events

in the most harrowing way has misleading results what side of the b.b.c. story which use images of rows of children's bodies sent in by an activist only they turned out to have been taken in iraq almost a decade ago the photographer who took the pictures thinks they're being used for propaganda get all the details dotting dot com. and as the strife in syria drags on the rebels are getting strong support from lebanon everything from medical treatment to weapons of financial reports it's not just profit driving the daily and deadly trading guns as solo shows off his goods. this is five thousand dollars and this is thirteen hundred eighteen hundred and two thousand the seven machine guns between two and a half and three thousand u.s. parks shaadi not his real name also has a rocket propelled and hand grenades which he showed me in private people come or

contact me every day we have a revolution next door. we talking shot his garage in tripoli lebanon on syrian rebels are his major clients are very popular but recently they're looking for a really heavy stuff we buy from has and their allies and resell they have a nerve and they're getting it for free as iran makes their entire story. it'll take no more than ten hours for this shot he says to reach lebanon's conflict and gulf to neighbor since the beginning of the uprising in syria last march arms prices have rocketed for some items they coast has gone up five and sometimes even ten times and the more the conflict drags on the mall look at if it is for the weapons dealers but money is not the key reason shaadi is a sunni muslim and to him it's his holy do you teach or support his co religious fighters in syria for sure we. will help them topple assad till they do it

in a sunni dominated no fly zone where we meet the arms dealer those who want assad out are in the absolute majority and they are sending their religious brothers in neighboring syria a lot more than prayers. mad twenty nine year old field commander from the free syrian army was wounded during the baba amr siege earlier this spring together with other injured after say members his now having treatment in lebanon but his not stopped fighting entirely. we have supported the syrian ex-pats everywhere in the world people from britain with france saudi arabia also send us money when we buy weapons walkie talkies. a syrian borders he says every day tons of these aid go through his hands but for him it's not enough as soon as he gets better he'll return to syria. is a selfie a radical sunni group whose influence in this part of lebanon is growing

dramatically. there are demonstrations in favor of the syrian uprising a role so part of the support package everything sounds. we also need some a fish a calmer bakley one of the founders of the band islamic group. suspected of links to international terrorism but he says his input in the syrian revolt in sending the rebels the ideas and encouragement to achieve the ultimate goal what would be to make a call at the overthrow of the government we will make or the scholars speak for against us you will always at issues make them all up lies against the c.i. government and other selfish a can triple the runs this car parts shop he confirms that every sunni and especially every salafist here in lebanon is involved either ideologically or financially in what he calls syrian liberation army already helped the tunisian and egyptian revolutions we want syrians now to get rid of this regime

. shake muslin doesn't wear muslim white robes and keeps his beard sacred to every selfie shot so as not to draw too much attention he says everybody is sequitur feiss something these days just to see their mission and assad free syria completed . an r.t. reporting from northern lebanon. well live here in moscow with the twenty four hours a day still ahead for you this hour falling ratings as a symptom of distrust we look at what's called a growing number of americans to abandon the mainstream news media in favor of independent or foreign outlets or even fictional programs. still to come first during the surge in the occupy movement have much in common of course they both criticize governments and are often condemned by the mainstream media so now for the first time the world's most famous whistleblower and the leaders of the global protest movement come together here on r.t. in the latest edition of

a very own interview program they discuss the spread of the occupy demonstrations. occupy sort of similar for a while for the first the first week or ten days or something until there was violence. well yes i mean what are police violence but nonetheless these are not true because. for the record. we took a nonviolent direct action when we occupied the square so we could have a general assembly and starts talk about the world that we wanted to live in which we saw is completely antithetical to the world we're currently living in and the structures that governed it so yeah i mean i guess by being there by exercising directly democratic process we're posing a threat and so the police had to respond when there's nothing that terrifies the american government so much as the threat of democracy breaking out in america. there for to react. and you can catch the

seventh edition of june in the times of series in full later at eleven thirty am g.m.t. right here on our team if you missed the previous six you can always watch them online. dot dot com and to the protests in canada now and let's hope the standoff between students and authorities in quebec could soon come to an end with talks due to resume on monday thousand strong demonstrations against jewish and free hikes have been taking place on a nightly basis for over a month but a new emergency law is cause such anger cutting fees may no no longer be enough to check on reports. it's not just about to wish and hikes anymore even many of those who didn't care much about the problems facing students in care back have now joined the ranks of protesters. it is something that we should and have to do in this region but that's not against and we have to be there and we have to make noise it does it's the end of democracy if we keep on this way and the

farther on our own goal on the ground harder for the future to ensure. the country and the city you need to tens of thousands marching every day making a noise to express anger at what they see as draconian government measures to suppress people's rights to freedom of assembly and expression earlier this month the government here adopted an emergency anti protest law to make it illegal to assemble without permission and to insist on a precise road map of any planned march or demonstration decided this is a map of montréal yet that's not the country always that duckworth would think of although. i think they're not very sad or for their most recent burnside for cambridge and the first time i have five. hundred narratives or to start the ads or observe this sort of thing i got a day after the anti protests law was passed

a quarter of a million people spilled onto montréal streets in defiance in a peaceful march more than seven hundred were arrested in just one day there were people coming out from the bar actually at that time and they were arrested and they weren't going to been demonstrations there or there had been tear gas. a lot of physical or station but the people keep more change and banging their pots and pans each now risking a fine of up to five thousand dollars when there are so many people that get arrested ready canada's me. dhea or in spending much time showing incidents of police brutality. of journalists in canada live in which the politicians and live which good good good good good the gang are making the rules show they don't going to get outside and see what's happening in the streets really and they don't want to know about police brutality did don't want to know about it. you can see

how dramatically the protests have evolved over the past three months in february when they started it was the students are kept back worse than the government of the problems the gatherings were generally very peaceful but the police reaction was overwhelmingly harsh and as if that wasn't enough to beck's leaders thought a quick fix law to quell the protests would spell the end but it did and now they're facing tangere over fees and freedom i'm going to check out from the streets of montreal canada r t. don't forget that all the stories we're covering are also available on our web site r t v dot com online all the time here's what's lined up there for you at the moment deadly moves the authorities in pakistan threatened six people with the death penalty for allegedly violating tribal traditions by dancing together the details dot com. and splashing the cash russia's answer to mark zuckerberg the founder of the country's biggest social network shows off his riches by making paper planes out of bank notes find out how

much money the board of millionaire was throwing away right here on our website at r.t. dot com. just turned seventeen minutes past the hour let's check out some other stories making headlines around the world at this stage and world update a massive fire the shopping center in color not clear at least thirteen children for teachers and too far fighters witnesses say the complex did not appear to have any alarms or sprinklers he thought the blaze began around midday at the luxury mall and took several hours to put out the cause is still unknown. former british prime minister tony blair's appearance before an inquiry into media ethics has been interrupted by a man shouting war criminal investigation is looking at the issue of phone hacking

by journalists blair faced questions about his relationship with rupert murdoch owned the news of the world the main newspaper involved as blair's convoy left the inquiry eggs were thrown at one of the brake lights. the us mainstream news media is rapidly losing its audience with the biggest networks suffering from sinking ratings rising independent outlets and internet sources provide an alternative to corporate controlled news and as artie's marina portal reports media giants are increasingly obsolete. i. think i'm like he's the most trusted fictional name in news the lead character of h.b.o.'s upcoming series newsroom is on a mission to tell the truth in the face of u.s. corporate and commercial pressures where you are what makes was the greatest country in the world i don't know what i'm. venting their lives and their work in the rule of nonfiction taking morgan holding its annual shareholders meeting

america's corporate owned news networks that rarely challenge the status quo might want to take some cues from h.b.o.'s fake show and i report warns last month cnn's ratings dropped to their lowest in a decade here on the nominees in march fox lost nearly twenty percent of their viewers and for years and as n.b.c. has consistently remained least popular among all three if you went into the board rooms and the executive suites of these media companies they're in a panic about this. other peter hart is the activism director at fair a us media watchdog group he says an increasing number of americans are abandoning mainstream media for alternative independent or foreign news outlets once people shift and say c.n.n. is not for me fox is not for me on this and b c isn't doing what i really want them to do or need them to do then it's hard to get them back how do you convince somebody that your media system works when their experience tells them that it

doesn't when last autumn's biggest global story was born in new york city it was largely ignored by most mainstream news outlets but it is. this organized a look quote as one of the protesting nobody seems to know until it became impossible to suppress. this spring the fight against corporate greed is still being waged but at this event in times square demonstrators are surrounded by news tickers but no mainstream t.v. cameras the occupied. movement is it waiting for the almighty powerful networks to show up at reports about their demonstrations instead the grassroots group has made media distribution all part of its campaign creating newspapers like this one which report about political financial and social stories that are either blocked out more rarely addressed by most mainstream news outlets the first amendment just

keeps shrinking in importance as a handful of profiteering corporations who don't care a lot about journalism don't care a lot about democracy have taken control reporting the truth means risking all the dangers of digging too deep cost america's legendary newsman dan rather his coveted chair at c.b.s. the trust the journalist was forced to resign after reporting that george w. bush went missing during his national guard service to avoid being drafted to vietnam. because i had my team reported a true story it was a tough story a story a lot of people didn't want to believe that it was subjected to but to repeat propaganda barrage to discredit to a case in which art is imitating life is becoming. a life now seeing more americans turning to the alternative marina port i.r.t. new york. so that's the way it is at the moment where although it's he'll be back

with a run of the top stories in about ten minutes from now before that interview with the newly elected president of serbia. that's what it is mr president thank you very much for giving your time to this interview the international media see you as a nationalist and a right wing however you based your election campaign on good relations with the european union. that is the obvious that they are absolutely right that i am

a nationalist but i'm a democrat as well and as far as european values go we will respect their will because of our constitution and the constitution that tied it and i wrote together i respect it sincerely i'd like to bring order to serbia the way that germany has organized it probably a lot of time will pass until the western press accept road treats me fairly as for many years now they've written about the negative but now it's difficult to change that but after achieving victory in an acceptable conditions during an incredibly dirty media campaign it's more probable that the media will change their opinion to the book moreover i showed that i want to be the president of all the citizens of serbia. the launch you are free to support if you are traditional value to save you you have been stung by their voices at their store i'm not afraid because europe is a very attractive partner for serbia and our country should meet almost all of the conditions that the e.u. imposes or this process should stop only if they ask us to renounce part of our

territory i'm referring to kosovo or talk it up until now i've been open and sincere with the citizens of said. and i'm going to continue cooperating with the people but the moment they impose such conditions i told people immediately i think that's why i won't give my book an article you know in our country the dismissal of a president is almost impossible nevertheless my term will last five years only if the citizens allow it that if they no longer want to see me in this position i will walk away right now i'm convinced that the politics that i've been representing are the only good politics for serbia mr beer. in your first statement after the elections you said that salvia will not turn away from the european path and at the same time you promise to hold a referendum where the citizens will have to decide if they want to join the e.u. or not we keep this promise. misuse of order so that a referendum is going to happen we agreed with the democrats that when all the conditions are fulfilled for serbia's entry to the e.u.

we will go to the papers with the question do you want to be in the e.u. they will decide that's how they did it in croatia only a few months ago but only after they had fulfilled all the conditions and when the e.u. had accepted croatia then they organized the referendum the other day i think it's necessary to cooperate with citizens a lot more than in the past but that doesn't mean that i'm resigned to the european way that my only fear is that they'll impose conditions that i personally wouldn't accept but probably the citizens would say that's fulfill it too because we want to be in the e.u. i won with fifty percent of a vote and i know that the other half are didn't support my ideas that's why i believe that i should ask them all to do that is to get it through these. as those are going to be tonight when serbia is in a difficult economic situation when the country is unemployment rate exists twenty four percent on the other side europe also has its problems and it's becoming poorer day by day so why do so still want to become members of the aren't you

afraid that the greek scenario could be repeated in your country love to go to clearness you know greece is another thing greece is a member of the e.u. which was spending way money then ago duesler was that because then one day it came out that it didn't have anything like that it took advantage of the surveyor's which is not a state but a union of stories the trust one another one of those serbia is far behind any of the zuma member countries will serbia enter the e.u. i don't know first of all they have a crisis of expansion or you know today it's clear that we will be in during the next ten years at the same time they have the existential crisis the euro is a currency that's turning weaker by the day on the other hand it's a big question how long is germany going to help members of the union without a say how long should german taxpayer support the countries in crisis as i promised to guide serbia to a path where no one could say that you don't want to end like you know the truth is that the world is a lot bigger. it has to be because my victory is a victory of the ideology of both the e.u. and russia are not the wars syria. doesn't want that was interesting you don't see

that sebi a will have to choose between the e.u. and russia you think it's possible to keep the right balance between them. you have a whole other level to i prefer not to have to make the choice of those that i'd like serbia to be at home with two doors one to the west and the other to the east you know serbia simply belongs to the east as well as to the west we have a traditional and deep relationship with russia not only in terms of origin but also in religion what's that history customers language like that we have complimentary industries the food we've had exceptional economic relations since the second world war that we can be a good bridge between europe and russia and the best partner of russia in the east because of the other the. us it seems like serbia is always having to maintain conditions to become e.u. members of the other candidates have to join nato and what if they want you to join it to. believe serbia will never enter nato as this is the will of the majority of the serbian period and the e.u.

will never impose this condition because serbia doesn't have any reason to enter i don't see any sense in its existence but if nato becomes an organization which together with the collective security treaty organization would fight against organized crime of the world then we would have participated in serbia is a small country surrounded by nato members there's no one serbia would start a war with we don't need nato to defend it we are militarily neutral and it will stay like that forever so. all the cities that's in russia as well as in serbia you hear very often that the hague tribunal is uncertain so do you plan to continue the cooperation with the chinese the you know initiated by the democrats. i've been the team leader who defended voice live show and i struggled against carla del ponte say for many years even personally in strasbourg. had a very difficult conversation in the presence of many parliamentarians of the european council the hague tribunal will exist until the situation of the world

changes and with other people have been convicted that people are dying that often but the tribunals has the support of all countries and so far no one has launched a process to stop it anyway it will be closed soon because there are only a few process you're left of and it will close in a fairly negative way for the global justice system open as the former president of serbia died in the case of course the presidents of racial and bosnia have not been convicted that is always discrimination of the serbian began long ago and today nothing has changed in segregation continues to the obviously it's not fair but the serbian government adopted an all wrong co-operation with the hague tribunal a little we have to respect that lower and stand lawyers like we've enjoyed many injustices in this world with that a. thank you you thank .