the u.s. and its allies ridicule syrian government claims that terrorists are responsible for the whole massacre as washington admits military intervention plans are in the pipeline and warns it may sidestep the u.s. . tough talk on syria is expected in germany and france today where president wooden will be discussing business and politics on his first foreign tour of his new term in office. tallying the totals irish government exit polls suggest the country has voted yes to the e.u. this treaty which opponents say dooms island two years of crippling a stereo loss of sovereignty to brussels.

am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie welcome to the program how the syrian government is blaming rebel terrorists for a last weekend's massacre in which more than one hundred died in the town of houla it's a claim the u.s. strongly reject secretary of state hillary clinton says plans are being drawn up to intervene in syria ignoring the u.n. security council if necessary here's our. latest from new york. mrs clinton during her visit to denmark she was speaking about the situation in syria saying there is an increased need for more international action in the country clinton also said that russia's policy on syria a policy where russia does not support military intervention or sanctions on syria ms clinton said that is going to contribute to a civil war in syria the u.s. secretary of state said the absence of you wed action in syria mainly due to

russia's opposition makes it harder to respond to the crisis in the way the international community did in libya now these comments are clearly coming in the in light of last week's massacre in houla u.s. officials are making their words much stronger just on wednesday the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. susan rice said that if kofi annan six point peace plan fails and if the security council does not agree on international sanctions on syria then countries would have to consider taking independent action without the authority of the security council what that action would be is not clear because the u.s. and european countries have already imposed their own independent sanctions on syria so those words led many to speculate that the u.s. and its allies are possibly considering military action the commander of the free syrian army he has called on joint special envoy kofi annan to publicly say that

his six point peace plan that's about seven weeks old cars failed and out would allow rebels to resume their military attacks against president bashar al assad and his supporters nobody from the united nations has come out and blatantly said that peace plan has failed clearly there's been a violation of the cease fire on both sides the opposition and the. also the syrian government has publicly said that there they are the results of their investigation into last week's massacre in houla as found that armed rebels are responsible they say for the deaths of more than one hundred people there and according to their investigation they believe it is because armed rebels are trying to start a civil war in the country the u.n. is also continuing their own independent investigation into what happened in houla and that those results will be no in the next couple of days. are now reporting

there are now russia says it won't change its position of seeking peace in syria even as washington attempts to push moscow towards forcing damascus into submission and i were activists sara flounders says america has never been interested in a diplomatic solution to the syrian conflict. it's important to know that it's the u.s. and nato who are creating a civil war in syria in terms of arming commando mercenaries thugs flooding the country with weapons doing everything that they can to destabilize syria and the latest massacre in houla is just one more example because it's this exact scenario that the u.s. has used to justify quote humanitarian intervention in the past and after they create total destabilization send in all sorts of mercenaries and armed groups and they claim that they're going in in order to save the situation it's absolute hypocrisy and fraud and they've done it with the u.n.

security council support and they've done it without u.n. security council support and we've seen this in the past and it's clear that the u.s. is not interested in a diplomatic solution they are in every way trying to move toward military intervention which means massive destruction of the entire country but they're already responsible for great destruction. the conflict in syria is spilling over into neighboring lebanon were deadly sectarian clashes have broken out in several cities and there's also a growing influx of syrian are a few was areas divided between supporters and bitter opponents of president mori of it often has more from lebanon. this small house in the outskirts of tripoli in lebanon you've shown to two five syrian families running away from atrocities and violence in their homeland. we were forced to leave shelling in homs never stopped we were afraid to leave the house violence was part of everyday life we were just

tired. to be to bloodshed means the just ten boys like ali have had their childhoods talman from them he now has to earn money to help his family he shows us what he does for seven dollars per week refugees complain they live here in lebanon is really hard no work not enough money and often not even a roof over their heads but it's not just women and children who fled the syrian nightmare made a spokesperson for the syrian refugees in lebanon says the run around one hundred activists among them who continue their resistance here and sometimes we make their move those protests this is a call for the international community for humanitarians and even lebanese authorities that we meet our we need more attention many though fear that this attention may bring in its wake even more trouble serious threat in the city of

tripoli separates the whites and sunni neighborhoods in this part of not be running like a murderer between those who support the syrian president and his regime and those who want him out of their own device because just as the conflict in neighboring syria does and with the spillover of violence from across the border are being felt here now but it wiggles and punches between these tell becoming even more pronounced while we were in town we heard the sound of an explosion the men at the scene says he's the owner of this house where just minutes ago a grenade was thrown he says the man lives in an area known for being pro assad portrays of the syrian leader on every building here including the one now badly damaged the victim is very quick to come to a conclusion a little. thrown from a sunni area they hate assad and they hate us. but while he's blaming his opponents in lebanon for the destroyed house he's blaming the unrest in syria for destroying

his peaceful life by. spreading to his community let me tell you this is all from syria refugees they come here radicals in santa fe states support them and this is how violence increases while we are supposed to be one family here. lebanon has been blighted by recent trouble it witnessed an almost fifteen year loan civil war two and troops were stationed here for three decades and only left in two thousand and five meaning they've never had too many sympathizers in lebanon but more recently the country had managed to keep religious and political tensions and by now the syrian crisis seems to put that fragile calm at trieste. tripoli lebanon. to get a latest update on any of our stories and much more about logging onto our website r.t. dot com here's what's waiting for you there right now. watch footage of a huge early morning fire in the heart of russian capital in belding some of the

city center and dance a small. and thousands of angry spanish minor staged a rally that bleeds over a dozen injured both activists and police officers find out what caused the clashes at r.t. dot com. president putin is heading for germany and france later today to talk economy and politics he'll be lobbying hard for russian business is trying to acquire european industrial assets in return his hosts are expected to pressure russia for u.n. action on syria are just corpus cut off brings us more from berlin. why grange over issues is on the table here in berlin including syria of course russia has been in

strong opposition to the west blocking draft resolutions in the un security council since many countries in the west don't exclude the possibility of foreign military intervention into the situation in syria we know that germany stands for a political solution but still earlier it was announced that chancellor angela merkel is going to try to talk to applying more pressure on president vladimir putin has been seen enjoying body in beer with german leaders before but it's yet to be seen if that's going to help them reach some sort of a mutual understanding on this issue a long time ago when vladimir putin was an agent of the k.g.b. he spent a lot of time in germany and since coming into politics this country has always been special on his list of foreign partners it's here that putin made some of the key statements including the famous munich speech at the security conference when he slammed to nato expansion to the east and called an end to the washington led

uni polar world system now germany has been chosen as the first western nation for his visit after returning to office earlier in me and it's no wonder why the to our strategic partners trade is booming germany's russia second largest trade partner after china of course i mean energy cooperation as well including the nord stream pipeline project which sends russian gas directly to the european union but also germany is a key player in the euro zone spending billions of euros to keep some of its weakest members float of course there's also the iranian nuclear program various schools are all joint projects and after a visiting berlin was going to put in the plans to head off to france to meet with the french president continuing his european tour. as europe is following put its visit there now still to come on later this hour energized over an empty every. uses to bow to american pressure and turn its back on its closest energy trading partner iran. to the european parliament gives the thumbs down to

a controversial anti-piracy agreement which opponents say would drastically limit online freedom. ireland has voted on the e.u. fiscal three designed to implement strict belt tightening measures but which opponents say it represents a charter for syria and permanent loss of sovereignty counting begins at eight o'clock g.m.t. with irish government sources claiming the plan's likely to pass after a low turnout under the agreement the e.u. will have alternate control over the country's fiscal policy ireland is the only country in europe holding a referendum on the treaty from laura smith now reports. three friday votes to be counted and at the end of the day will know whether it's going to have european impose its austerity recession in which we don't know whether it's joining the growing and the austerity backlash people out into the street in old europe it's widely expected that the yes side will win although having spoken to some voters

yesterday that's by no means certain some told me they'd been intending to vote yes only to change their minds at the last minute and vote no and that's a symptom of a general malaise in the country many are tired of all sterile city and tired of feeling wait for the doubt on to the the european union if the irish do agree to the treaty they'll be sacrificing economic decision making so princely as some say it's in exchange for further financial assistance is the path of least resistance than the one most main political policies to support but it is used by not to help but it's not guaranteed to promote europe increasingly economic wouldn't if they know it's unknown territory to get paid takes a picture of a future with the logo of sterile sea and no more bailouts for europe but some irish people would prefer self-imposed to spending cuts in full by brussels with

germany calling the shots counting down the way i'll be bringing you a first tally of the results as they come in laura smith reporting their government exit poll has suggested the treaty has passed with a margin of more than sixty to forty percent aspire to low voter turnout in the referendum declan ganley founder of the liberty party campaigning for a no vote says europe needs to find an alternative to dump and huge debt on the irish people for massive bank losses they didn't cause. the chances of real a real return of vitality in the european economy i think is somewhat slim particularly in peripheral countries ireland for its part has an even bigger proportion of failed private bank debt that was social lives just after it fell down the rest of the european union and we did that in two thousand and eight and two thousand and ten in order to start to save the euro to prevent contagion from

spreading so what needs to be done now is that europe needs to come up with a solution that either federalizes that debt and spreads it across all of the european union or writes it off in some other form but to leave that stuck on the irish taxpayer money that our government never borrowed that cannot stand i call for serious moves to be made to create a. united states of europe constructed in a federal way from the bottom up that is to say that it is fully democratically accountable and solvent. european parliament has given its arms down to kind of urgent international and internet piracy agreement now as act three major rejected the legislation both. over its legality months ago the plants park mass protests in europe with activists claiming it puts users online freedom at risk. from pirate party says actor is trying to bite off more than it can to. if you're sending

something over the internet. exercising freedom of speech but at the same time if you're sending anything that means that you can also use this freedom of speech to infringe on the copyright and so basically the speech has become fundamentally incompatible with age old. predominately up until a couple of decades ago only used by corporate lawyers these last few years is battled its way and to the bedrooms of most ordinary citizens it's just not doable to criminalize two hundred fifty millions of europeans what they do pretty much every day. even those who are in favor or not please recognize the actor deliberately conflates the issues of fake medicine as a counterfeit show util. with teenagers downloading and sharing music those two issues are not the same problem and they should not be covered by the same laws. or

india has but it's the down over iran despite pressure from the us over the rons nuclear intentions new delhi says that you know lateral american and ease sanctions will be allowed to affect trade with the islamic republic or has the story. india has taken a stand despite washington's ongoing pressure to stop buying oil from iran india is forging ahead severely in the deficient it's important. growing but it's even up to ninety per cent of the over requirements it only becomes the truck to souls. according and it due to sources and many say the same simply won't work without india since its iran is biggest oil customer and so the united states finds itself in the position of courting india's cooperation for its plan to be successful hillary clinton recently visited india during her asia tour trying to

sell america's strategy to isolate iran but leaders here in india won't budge while they have reduced imports on iranian oil slightly they say they won't ever stop completely their reasoning extends beyond just india's energy needs with one of the fastest growing economies in the world iran is an important partner for india to continue to grow in the future india is in talks with fourteen other countries to use iranian highways railroads and ports to connect it to parts of central asia and europe and half the time it currently takes if you're going to have a trading relationship and we can all make relationship why don't you go to relationship with the countries of central asia this is the only way and we have been hoping. it will do it will be you and trying. to link up. ports. to central asia and iran also serves as

india's only link to afghanistan a place that has plenty of mineral resources india is keen to get its hands on and a place the united states should want to front easily get to once they pull out their troops in twenty fourteen this is the what both the interests of all of us go into. that of god his son is linked to the world through communication a means that cannot be disrupted that will that it has the ability to export its sources and therefore make somebody india say isolating iran it won't work and it's time for the americans to take a step back we're trying to encourage the americans to look at the bigger picture because not only are we going to be affected but they too will be affected so i think perhaps and it's our hope that better sense will. be a peaceful outcome flexing its muscles protecting its interests and not bowing down

to pressure from the west pressure either r t new delhi india. what you are to life in moscow now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world. first to somalia where african government forces have captured the city of a strategic military base in the south of the country armed group a band of the town without a fight as troops approach the spy facing pressure on a number of military fronts the al qaeda group still controls much of the country has been a key target for kenyan troops who make up the african union contingent in the south of the country since the end hurt somalia last october. coca-cola and we dollars have attacked the new york mayor's initiative to cut sales of sugary drinks in the city's restaurants and cinemas in the tampa tap a visit bloomberg proposes setting the maximum size of bottles and glasses of soda to be sold at point forty seven leaders coke manufacturer and fast food giant

however say it's an unsuitable measure york very high obesity rate with research showing that over half its citizens are overweight. it's controversial state of emergency that's been in place for over thirty years has expired officials in cairo haven't so far announced any plans to extend it last detention without charge and alice say the government used it as a tool to stamp out any dissent a lifting of a special powers means that over one hundred eighty detainees held under its provisions will have to be released but it's still unclear if they'll be freed. now it's about to face a much more significant milestone later this month which is round two off the presidential election but the conversely over the background of the two remaining candidates have plenty of cause for debate and artie's cross talk at seven thirty am g.m.t. . the threat that radical islam islam and revolutionary islam islam poses not just

to internal egyptian politics but to the wider region needs to be clear fully examined and you should hold these people to their statements because the egyptians like them because they see them as honest they also see them as. recommendations that the word. this is the exact problem i'm talking about you know conflating one islamic group in egypt that is a brother. in the eighty's with all of the muslim brotherhood painting everything with this broad brush not only willingness to look into the details and subtleties and analyze egyptian affairs on their own terms instead of what they might mean for israel i mean in the unwillingness to really look at what egypt and politics look like on the ground you know this leads to fear mongering and frankly it leads to a dangerous foreign policy where you promote stability as the high is good and we've seen what that what that leads to. all right it's time now to take always having the world of business let's cross over to you katie good morning to you there so it's the first day of summer first of june

and is said to be a better one for the markets i join you will have so many but right now it's a little bit chill free to say the least now investors are going to be really feeling the pain on the part of the first day we've been looking at the asian markets because that up and running at the moment and it's a bit of a mixed picture at the moment now the hang sang just piped up into positive territory in the last sort of thirty minutes or so if i just want to mention china's mother thought today said because it did miss estimates and that sort of feeding some pessimism in the region right now and the nikkei over one percent down and the hang tight. around two ten in post to tear down and let's have a look at how the u.s. finished up yesterday now it's all about jobless claims they did come out on the increase which is bad news for the u.s. economy and that was unexpected as well the economy also grew less in the first quarter than they expected to today's a big day for the u.s. because we've got u.s. fall payrolls which basically means how many jobs they added into the system not.

all anticipating this to be a bad result bartman sat here all week saying what these people think is going to happen at the house and saw it be interesting to see what happens later on when the markets eisenberg right now you can see the closing because you guessed. on the back as you can see what occurs is just a year i finished up one twenty three fifty for the cherry it is favorite hat we got the ruble as well which lost out to the and both the year as well are now talking about currencies carlos good as he used to be out of the trades head for the u.s. a trade minister he is now a top manager city and he was telling us about the rise of the dollar and he says well what it says. you look at other currencies i mean the euro. currencies around the world that are impacted by the soft europe countries that export credit so it would make sense in the short term there would be

a drawing from the dollar i don't think things will continue because everyone else is in bad shape. i think that would be a terrible strategy to think that we're going to be ok because everyone else is so bad that the dollar will be stronger at some point. someone will have to take action. the amazing thing is that it has been kept under cover has been. almost you know what's happening in the u.s. because of all these problems with the world ok let's take out the russian rockets and see how they finished up yesterday there were indeed been a bit of a tumultuous week here in moscow look at the last twenty percent my goodness maybe that was disappointing the mises yesterday just about two tenths of a percent in negative territory now the concerns over in europe are really feeling here in moscow the feelings of being felt now we've got

a spanish bond yields now hitting the levels that greece go an island when they needed by allows investors are really holding tight for that one today let's get on the things we can check out the oil prices as well you'll be able to see. any sort of support here moscow got the the price is dropping as i say china disappointing manufacturing data that's feeding through also u.s. stock poles are now twenty two month highs we've got the spanish banking system still a delicate situation so all those sentiments feeding through just that on the screen as you can see prices drop or at the marina are going to be monitoring the markets the prices the figures the business. already thanks very much yes absolutely thanks very much for this comprehensive look at what's happening in the world of business and always looking forward to more in next hour katie thanks very much for that well i'll be back shortly with an update of our top story so stay with us here on r.t. . two

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