president vladimir putin has made his first foreign tour after his recent inauguration meeting europe's top heavyweights germany and france head of the russia east summit in st petersburg. as rebels and government forces in syria trade accusations of a massacre in which at least one hundred eight people died the u.n. orders an investigation to find out who's really responsible. rock bottom for ousted egyptian president hosni mubarak is against a life sentence handed down to his part in the killing of hundreds of protesters last year but fierce rioting follows in cairo crowds angry he's not being executed . i'm running out producing the sounds with less than two weeks left for his legal team to follow and he'll offer the whistleblower who says

his battle against extradition to sweden britain's supreme court. this is artie's weekly news review i'm carrie johnson and welcome to the program. russia summit kicks off later today in st petersburg but in has already met some of europe's main players this week while a trip taking in germany and france he talked tough on nato expansion u.s. missile defense shield plans and moscow stance on the ongoing violence in syria parties ridiculous guy has the details there. wasn't putting his first stop was in minsk which many saw as an indication that that russia's foreign policy now will focus more on its closest neighbors and the c.i.s. countries many observers also saw this visit as the beginning of the suppose at the

land of economic and eastern bloc now off you went afterwards to berlin on a whirlwind visit which lasted for only half the day was going to put an end german chancellor angela merkel who seemed to see eye to eye on the matters concerning syria now earlier in the week u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton said that russia is aiding to the troubles in syria by continuing to support the regime of president bashar al assad to which of course the russian president prepared a response so we can see it but russia is unilaterally supporting the assad regime . we have longstanding good relations with syria but. the conflict. i agree with. they don't come in objectives. both russian and german leaders seem to believe that their coffee on speed planet should be seen to progress to excess fully at the moment it does seem like

a strong a by the seemingly unstoppable of fighting on all sides in syria now of course that not all leaders in europe seem to agree with the french president francois long also earlier in the week did mention that france supports military intervention in the middle eastern country and of course that is something that russia is adamantly against and that was one of the matters discussed by putin on his last leg of the european tour which took him to paris now of course there is no agreement on the issue of syria among the european leaders among other issues which were also discussed or mentioned it during. meeting the way that the french president of course was the issue of missile defense now russia is russia's adamant . the plans for creation of a missile defense shield in eastern europe a plan much hailed by nato and the united states as being very much needed by countries to counteract the suppose it possible strikes from the likes of iran and

north korea now these plans worry very much and moscow has been adamant in its demands that nato and its allies present guarantees that this missile shield will not be used against russia. in the past we've often been promised you wouldn't expect then we were promised it wouldn't put military home going to russia but we've seen it expand and its bases spread you know we need guarantees but i'd like to say we're not going to escalate this discussion we've been ready to engage in dialogue it is natural that all of these issues of course will crop up during the russia e.u. summit which kicks off in st petersburg today and although we probably cannot expect a major breakthrough to be done it is clear that a lot of people lot of observers as well as all of the european leaders involved are hoping that some sort of movement forward will finally be made at least in some

of these topics. that clashes in lebanon between the groups for and against the assad regime across the border of left nine people dead and more than forty wounded and independent u.n. panel is to investigate last week's who massacre in syria which more than one hundred people including many children were slaughtered damascus and anti-government forces are blaming each other for orchestrating. the arab league is now discussing the crisis in syria with the arabiya pledging more aid. kofi annan that wonderful meeting of arab ministers that the country slipping into an all out civil war and then edged to cease all violence and more to the center flounders explains just why the conflict shows no signs of abating. 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 thought

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 ford and they've done it with 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. whereas the strife in syria drags on the

rebels are being sustained by a constant flow of alms from neighboring lebanon but this deadly trade is also a matter of faith not just money from the russian reports. as solo shows off his goods. this is five thousand dollars thirteen hundred eighteen hundred and two thousand and seven machine guns between two and a half from three thousand euros works. not his real name also has a look at propelled and hand grenades which he showed me in private people come contact me every day we have a revolution next door. we talking shop 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 her and they're ours and resell they have a nerve and they're getting it for free and as iran makes their entire story. it

will 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 the 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 support his co religious fighters in syria for sure. 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're sending their villages 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 siege earlier this spring together with other

injured f.s.a. members his now having treatment in lebanon but his not stopped fighting entirely. syrian experts everywhere in the world or people from. saudi arabia also send his money. walkie talkies. 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 sellafield a radical sunni group whose influence in this part of lebanon is growing dramatically. their demonstrations in favor of the syrian uprising a role so the support package every five pounds. we also made some of fish a comedy 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. to make a call to overthrow the government would make all the scholars speak for against these issues and make them all again the government and other such a fish a can tripoli 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. to help the tunisian and egyptian revolution we want to rid of this regime. shake muslim doesn't wear muslim white robes and keeps his beard secret every sellafield short so as not to draw too much attention he says everybody sacrifices something these days just to see their mission and i saw . syria completed. t.v. reporting from northern lebanon on. what i saw ahead few this hour forty shades of

austerity island says yes to the new fiscal treaty in a referendum that means brussels taking control of the country's national economic policy. and raging over roadblocks and who serve protesters clashed with nato peacekeepers over barricades in order to consider. egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak who was given a life sentence on saturday has been admitted to a prison hospital after reportedly suffering a heart attack on his way from the court however to get life time and acquittal of his two sons was considered to be linked by many triggering mass protests across the country people demanding the death penalty and the post made it more than ten thousand gathered overnight in cairo when enraged more of a techno headquarters a presidential candidate and pastor shafique freelance journalist mel true was into

their square karate. people at the moment really quite angry with the verdict you guys when they heard about barak was given twenty five years of life sentence they were euphoric because people busy making would just be done for corruption charges however they realized that his sons and also. the interior ministry say six police officers would not be actually quite so it's people started to realize that perhaps the verdict wasn't what they wanted so what we saw was actually a mass on pricing of process egypt where people basically came to the streets are streaming angry about the lot of people calling for justice and now so we still have several tens of thousands of people here on across egypt really very angry mubarak the families who is actually lodge an appeal earlier scene is about it recently announced i mean that's one of the biggest fears the protesters. fearing already is that he will not see me and. he steps on his heels i'm not such

a me and upstanding at his full life sentence this is why people are still on the streets basically people to believe that you could use your system is transparent so they think that perhaps that part will be acquitted because that's what the regime always see which stand in place once people are beginning to make the connections between what they consider to be the old regime and the new regime which the military council basically what they seen is mubarak get up and like me they want to hear they want to see the death sentence they wanted his sons to be put in prison at the same time you know the background of the elections where the parks former prime minister ahmed syfy is actually considered to be one of the most of what makes the most popular candidates so people are really fairing is that this regime will never end the revolution is in fact not worth. well patrick henningsen associate editor of the website info wars dot com but he is mubarak's trial and their choice solve the two remaining presidential election candidates proves that the old regime is still effective in control you look at who stayed in power after

the fall of mubarak you know the real power in egypt is those who are the morning military and security services and they were all found not guilty there is a scramble for power there between the old guard. and the muslim brotherhood north sea the only day the real story here is that how can you have a free and fair elections in a country that is still under a military dictatorship show according to election officials in the first round of elections the majority of those numbers were not a transfer either show feet or morsi so what we have here i believe it looks like a staged a kind of a staged election that we're looking at. time is running out for julian assange lunge as his legal team now has less than two weeks for a last ditch attempt to contest the latest extradition ruling britain's a supremes court wants to hand over the we could be expanded to sweden over alleged sex crimes and songs and supporters fear it could have ventured the meaning in

being handed over to the u.s. to face espionage charges. as a story. the truth shall set you free all know the supporters were out in full six weeks for julian assange tearing his appeal was rejected in a split five t. decision by the judges after all the five hundred days of house arrest in person he's now on the brink of deportation to sweden to answer questions about sexual assault accusations he say's a trumped up basic point you remember the jury and hasn't been charged with any crime in any country and it really is extraordinary so much pain actually joy just for the purpose of questioning. it all began when we started revealing uncomfortable truths about the us government the afghanistan and iraq all of scaife shocking detail about the violent occupation of these countries the scale of civilian deaths on potential war crimes all at the hands of u.s.

forces and the swedish arrest warrant wasn't far behind i think this will send a chilling effect to over potential whistleblowers that if they dare challenge the secrecy and indeed in many cases war crimes of the united states they will face retribution and that's bad for democracy it's bad for human rights the case has been seen by many as a david and goliath style fight but the stanch taking on not just the legal system but the establishments that seek to silence him and wiki leaks and it's not just the government it's media that championed the songes a freedom of speech defend a spectacularly turned on him in recent times he didn't want to be a member of the club. and that was the problem we can reach produced in a matter of. more revelation about the workings of democratic governor bush and the workings of the world in many ways how the world is wrong when all the

news by western world put together. the word jealousy comes. in a further twist. in the tales songes legal team managed to get him an eleventh hour extradition stay they failed this battle is likely to end up in the european court of human rights it is being really richard. it should not be have. heard. whether she is disappointment among the poll to the decision on a real sense that this wasn't just the last stand and his legal team but a loss for the british justice system as well sir. remember you can always watch any of us some of his interview shows a lot on dot com during the standstill mentoring the sounds of occupy protesters to hear their first hand story of how a small movement became what it is now. and germany was

a violent clash between nazis and anti nazi groups of. more than seven hundred arrests. there on thursday island voted yes to the e.u. fiscal treaty by a margin of sixty to forty critics say the plan will impose long term austerity and loss of sovereignty from dublin to brussels economic affairs. has more. island says yes to writing european austerity into law and ceding more sovereignty to brussels the sixty forty result saw a split between rich and poor with middle class in rural areas in favor and working class. against sinn fein leader gerry adams campaigned vigorously against the treaty and is now islands most popular party leader as a result the government made

a number of commitments during. we're converted to the notion that you can't cut your way. up to get people. back into work. just. as a result of the greed of private bankers. so we. hold to those commitments they'll need to unemployment up to fifteen percent welfare payments are cut public sector spending has been slashed everyone's feeling the pinch including publican jimmy killed near he's seen his turnover by hauff as locals batten down the hatches we would have had and five full time employees bad for part time we're now down to full time to part time we had a restaurant upstairs which is now closed that's another three full time jobs.

possible income is it's a huge factor it's the discretionary spend that people have. you can see it throughout. the restaurant business and people are very very very careful on how they spend their money today economies tightly bound to the euro zone through bank loans and bailouts the treaty binds budget treat policy even tighter so that brussels will have a say over how arlen spends its money on healy of social justice ireland says it's a badly written treaty that will do what it's meant to do what we're looking at no is a limiting limitation being imposed by this treaty which we believe quite strongly means that we cannot put in the investment levels that are required of the scale that's required to actually generate the growth to produce the jobs that are required to get out of this mess that it's in thanks to the constitution the irish

are the only european people who got to vote on the pact and to. but governments have already signed it the u.s. will give power to an unpopular treaty france's new president francois hollande has talked about trying to renegotiate the pact and germany's angela merkel despite having written the treaty can't get her own parliament to ratify it richard boyd of the united left alliance sees a police future because of all of the gambling debts and banks and speculators of import on to the books of the state and that this would mean permanent austerity billions worth of colt's every year for at least a decade or more in order to meet the treaty targets and we believe will do damage to the economy which is already very traumatized for ireland it seems more damaging austerity is up ahead here in every pastis bristling with referendum the no post it's called the fiscal pact the bankers treaty the all stare it's the pact but

the yes campaign has won the day with its message of stability. prepared to see over and see in exchange for financial backup but even that's not guaranteed in a beleaguered euro as they know it's me. well declan ganley a founder of the better party campaign for a no vote says europe needs to find alternative to dumping huge debts on 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 we socialize after it's done 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 all the rights it off in some other form but to leave that stark 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. on friday nato led peacekeepers deployed in the northern coast of exchanged fire with angry protesters for demonstrators into german alliance soldiers were wounded in the clashes local serbs try to prevent shoots from moving barricades they set up last year on the border with kosovo blocks were wrecked it in response to an attempt by being authorities to impose border and customs controls serbs in kosovo

reject its two thousand eight declaration of independence from serbia a political analyst and sound of which. says the presence of foreign troops in the stirs up trouble. the nato forces which are being called peacekeepers are actually trying to use force to force the course of the serbs to accept living in independent kosovo which they won't accept and that's the whole root of the problem this morning they've actually fired live ammunition at people trying to keep the barricades and they're trying to keep the barricades to prevent. the calls of all baiting regime from prishtina to get a hold of the north northern part of the territory so actually this morning we've had wounded civilians wounded by so-called peacekeepers using live ammunition against barehanded people on our own people so actually peace is the last thing that on their mind unfortunately i do want to say that this was something at the beginning of june which was to be expected because there is a sort of

a power vacuum in belgrade right now we've just had parliamentary and presidential elections but we do not have a functioning government we only have a technical government so actually what's nato and the e.u. and the u.s. are doing they're using the power vacuum in belgrade to try to to establish a new reality on the ground in kosovo they too wanted the exclusive interview he talks to said he is newly elected president he says he's ready to maintain done up with pristina he could pretty. because of the it could go to the sort that i'm ready for dialogue not with. the research that he committed crimes against the evil he cannot negotiate until the investigation of his case finishes but i will speak with other representatives will go after the bombing of serbia in one thousand nine hundred nine we left nato in the territory of culture vocal we gave them civil and military power we have a administration for communities in northern kosovo and the e.u. has asked us to abolish these serbian institutions we responded that we cannot do

that because we have a university that you hospitals schools and colleges i just follow the constitution and in serbia the president is it's current or our constitution says that kosovo and metohija are part of serbia. the worst cyber attack in history that's the verdict of russian internet security specialists on the latest computer virus that swept through the middle east last week now flame this software is said by experts labs to have the capability to devour data like nothing ever seen before it's believed that a variety of computers belong to individuals and state organizations were targeted in iran syria lebanon and sudan by the virus which is a standard security at this hour many p.c.'s have been damaged even more acted experts are still trying to determine where it started but suspect that a single country may be behind the attack. and we suspect that.

there is a nation state behind the development of this cyber attack and there are reasons for that these applications doesn't feed into a near or for existing groups that develop cyber attack tools they're currently three groups there are traditional cyber criminals who are hunting users they and this doesn't fit into the group or traditional cyber criminal mob or also it doesn't doesn't fit into the activity smaller who are using typically free and open source tools to attack computers on the internet and this sort known group by a baby is the piece nation state supported developments and that is why we think it's one of them. well let's stay tuned as we have the headlines coming up next.

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