the land of economic and eastern block now off he 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. but usually russia is unilaterally supporting regime. we have longstanding good relations with syria but we soon become fruit. and i agree with. both russian and german leaders seem to believe that that peace plan 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 and not all leaders in europe seem to agree with the french president francois hollande or 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. a meeting with the french president of course was the issue of missile defense now russia's russia's adamant that the plans for creation of the 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 pose a possible strikes from the likes of iran and north korea. these lands of worry

very much has been adamant in its demands that nato and its allies. guarantees that this missile shield will not be used against russia. in the past we've often been promised it wouldn't explain then we were promised that need to wouldn't put military hardware in the russian 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 already and partners to engage in dialogue it is natural that all of these issues of course will crop up during the russian 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. where clashes in lebanon between groups for and against the assad

regime across the border left nine people dead and more than forty wounded independent u.n. panel is to investigate last week's when a massacre in syria which more than one hundred people including many children were small to the massacres and anti government forces are blaming each other for the sprint. it is now discussing the crisis in syria with qatar pledging more aid. that wonderful meeting of arab ministers that the country is slipping into an all out civil war and. violence former british intelligence officer. in the conflict is most unlikely to foreign terrorist groups. the methodology type of killing or beheading of slitting of throat slitting of throats of children two of the. bodies has been a character respect not. not of syria not of lebanon but really of what

happened in the anbar province of iraq and so it seems to point very much in the direction of groups that have been associated with the war in iraq against the united states who is perhaps returned to syria or iraq you come up from anbar to take part of it yes we're talking about al qaeda like groups. very end of the spectrum of the opposition they may be a minority in terms of numbers of the overall offices but they are now defining the war. but as a strife in syria drags on the rebels are being sustained by constant bombs reportedly coming through neighboring lebanon but this deadly trade is also a matter of faith just money. and if a national reports. a seller shows off his goods. this is five thousand dollars nine 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 shop his garage in tripoli lebanon 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 research 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 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's not the key reason shaadi is a sunni muslim and to him it's his holy duty to support his co religious fighters in syria for sure. they do it. in a sunni dominated snow fled but on where we meet the arms dealer those who want assad out are in the absolute majority and they are sending their villages brothers in neighboring syria a lot more than prayers. a mad twenty nine year old field commander from the free syrian army was wounded during the bubble armor siege earlier this spring together with other injured f.s.a. members he's now having treatment in lebanon but his not stopped fighting entirely . syrian ex-pats everywhere in the world or people from. saudi arabia also send his money by weapons walkie talkies.

he says every day tons of this aid to 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 to support package every ounce. we also made some of fish a call might have bakley one of the founders of the band islamic group. suspected of links to international terrorism and he says his input in the syrian revolt in sending the rebels the ideas and encouragement to achieve their ultimate goal would be to make call at the overthrow of the government would make all the schools speak for against these issues and make them all applies again to see a government and other summer fish a can triple he runs this car parts shop and he confirms that every sunni and

especially every salafist here in lebanon is involved either ideologically or financially in what he calls syrian liberation. already help the tunisian and egyptian revolutions we want syrians now to get rid of this regime. shake muslim doesn't wear muslim white robes and keeps his beard secret every seven feet short so as not to draw too much attention he says everybody sacrifices something these days just to see their mission and assad's. syria completed. the reporting from northern lebanon. with us still ahead for you this hour old to austerity ireland says yes to the e.u. fiscal treaty in a referendum even though it means brussels taking over control of the country's national economic policy. raging over roadblocks angry protesters clashed with nato peacekeepers have a barricades in moving closer to. 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 the lifetime and acquittal of his two sons was considered to be by many triggering mass protests across the country people demanding the death penalty for the post leader more than ten thousand gathered overnight in tahrir where raged the headquarters of presidential candidate not mr bush freelance journalist no true was into this square to. people at the moment really quite angry with the verdict this guy's from a kind of a bar it was given twenty five years of life sentence there were euphoric because people busy making would just be done for corruption charges however they realized that his sons are also. the interior ministry's a six police officers would not be sure of course it's people started to realize

that perhaps the verdict wasn't what they wanted so what we saw was actually a much stock price here process egypt where people basically came to the streets screaming angry about the right a lot of people calling for dust and. so we saw several tens of thousands of people here on and across egypt really very angry mubarak's the funny stories did not change an appeal earlier i assume is about it recently announced i mean that's one of the biggest fears the protesters are. fearing really is about. you will not sneak. peek except through his you know such a mean and upstanding his life sentence this is why people are still on the streets basically people think believe that you could use your system is transpiring. think that perhaps that bar will be acquitted because that's what the regime the whole regime is still 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 off mike lee they want to hear they

want to see the death sentence they wanted his sons to be put in prison at the same time in the background of the elections where the barracks former prime minister which it seems is actually considered to be one of the most of what makes the most popular candidates so people are really fearing is that this regime will never end and the repetition is in fact it's not worth while some a foresee a revolution activist in cairo says the muslim brotherhood is trying to use their growl about barrack's trial to its advantage in the upcoming presidential runoff people took the street for different reasons and you have to acknowledge that some revolutionary forces. because they think is is is the building itself again. mubarak is about to be acquitted if the court ruling stood before the appellate court and this is this is expected by the way and others particularly muslim brotherhood wanted to portray their candidates in the presidential elections for

the second round. as a candidate of the egyptian revolution again this is the old regime again is mobarak and they give mr also the state establishment candidate in this race there's a muslim brotherhood this is trying to capitalize on what's going on for the sake of the brazil election. well time is running out for julian assange holmes as his legal team now has less than two weeks for a last ditch attempt to stop him being extradited to sweden britain's supreme court has ordered the wiki leaks founder be handed over to answer sex crimes charges as arms and his supporters fear however that stockholm may eventually send him to the u.s. to face espionage charges of the mass leaking of sensitive and embarrassing american diplomatic cables sarah ferguson 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 it just sequestering. it all began when we started revealing uncomfortable truths about the us government the afghanistan and iraq war logs gave 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 all potential whistleblowers but if they dare challenge the secrecy and indeed in many cases war crimes of united states they will face

retribution 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 with a stanch taking on not just the legal system but the establishment that seek to silence him and wiki leaks and it's not just the government media that champion the songes of freedom of speech defend 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. revelation about the workings of democratic of 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. tale songes legal team managed to get him an eleventh hour extradition stay if they fail this battle is likely to end up in the european court

of human rights it is being really a ritual. that should not be happy with me. but if he is disappointment among his equality at the station and i will tell you that this wasn't just the last beginning of stange and his legal team but a loss for the british justice system as well thirty. one day. which analyst and author al burke believes it's a matter of principle for the swedish authorities to have convicted and what i've seen so far on the net is pretty consistent with what we have seen all along in the past eighteen months or so and that is a mainly hostile and negative attitude towards julian assange and his attempt to avoid extradition to sweden my own opinion is that the swedish prosecutors have invested so much per stage in this case that they're under

a lot of pressure to get him convicted of something so i don't think they're just going to walk away from the case but they may surprise the ships so everything that i've seen thus far indicates to me however that the prosecutor in charge is rather seriously determined to convict him of something. well remember you can always watch any of our songs as interview shows and on our chart lot r.t. dot com the latest installment in the sounds of various occupy protesters to hear their first hand story of a small movement became what it is now. in germany was a violent clash between me and nazis and anti nazi groups in respect to more than seven hundred guests also footage at r.t. don't come. on thursday island voted yes to the e.u. fiscal treaty by a margin of sixty forty critics say the plan would impose long term austerity and permanent loss of sovereignty from dublin to brussels of economic affairs. has more

. ireland 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 and 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 of government. commitments during. were converted to the notion that you can't cut your way. up to get people. back into work. just banking. so we. still 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. five full time employees yeah for part time to full time to part time we had a restaurant upstairs which is. another three full time jobs. it's a huge factor it's the discretionary spend that people have. you can see it throughout. the restaurant. people are very very very careful on how they spend their money to pay the 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 arlan spends its money on healy of social justice i'll. and 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 goals to produce the jobs that are required if i was to get out of this mess that it's thanks to the constitution the irish are the only european people who got to vote on the pact and all but two e.u. member governments have already signed it the u.s. will give added 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 baratz of the united left alliance sees

a bleak future because of all of the gambling debts and banks and speculators have been put onto the books of the state and that this would mean permanent austerity indians' worth of courts every year for at least a decade or more in order to meet the treaty targets and that we believe will do on told damage to the economy which is already very traumatized for ireland it seems more damaging austerity is up ahead here in dublin every taste is bristling with referendum posters they know posters call the fiscal pact the bankers treaty the austerity pact but the yes campaign has won the day with its message of stability. prepared to cede silver and sea in exchange for financial backup but even that's not guaranteed in a beleaguered euro as they know it's me. on friday nato peacekeepers deployed in northern ca cer exchanged fire with angry protesters for demonstrators and german alliance soldiers were wounded in the clashes. to prevent

troops from moving that barack. hades they said they would consider roadblocks were wrecked in response to an attempt by. these to impose board and customs controls so there's a possibility. of a ship independence from serbia but political analyst and it's on the great sense of presence of foreign troops and he stands 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 for 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 with just 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 now to some other international news making headlines across the world to go on a ten people in the minibus have died off to being hit by a cargo plane which crashed landed at the country's main airport the plane overshot the runway and plowed into the path to be a call. who aboard jets escaped to be injuries and were taken to hospital it's not

clear what caused the incident. thousands of students of march through the streets of montreal in protest that proposed solution b. hikes came two days are tossed collapsible to activists in the government and ending months of sometimes violent protests two and a half thousand people have been arrested since demonstrations began more than a dozen colleges and prevent. the media reports accuses u.s. and south korean special forces of parachuting into north korea to spy on underground military facilities that the revelations likely to even further worsen already bleak relations between north and south and washington in pyongyang the source was an american army general who admitted the missions took place and washington denies the claims and is now accusing the journalist behind the report of making up the quotes he comes as the u.s. is reinforcing its naval power in the asia pacific region already experiencing

another scale american intrigue build up north of the art school next insists that you from a should know what is true and correct. at present both the pentagon and the lower level command whose general ah i i heard speaking have both admitted that i did not fabricate the story earlier they had both said i fabricated the story he spoke in the present tense and it was not clear that he was speaking hypothetically not clear at all i mean it was actually quite apparent he was speaking in sort of the the present and literal sense of north korea tends to take a few days to process news reports like this before formulating some kind of response whether that response be an official statement or some sort of military posturing or something so i expect based on what experts are telling me that we'll have to

wait a day or two to up to see what the official response will be i hope it's nothing i hope the general as is is telling the truth when he says he was speaking hypothetically i regret that this thing got out of hand. but in a few moments a special report about the children of vietnam veterans exposed to agent orange and us less than a recap of today's top stories coming. child

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