the land of economic and eastern block now off you went afterwards to berlin on a whirlwind visit which lasted for only the day it was going to put in and german chancellor angela merkel seemed to see eye to eye on the matter is 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 the regime. we have longstanding good relations with syria but we soon to be conflict if the situation and i agree with. both russian and german leaders seem to believe that the 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 along there 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 to. meeting with the french president of course was the issue of defense now russia russia is adamant that the plans for creation of a missile defense shield in eastern europe 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. now these plans of worry

very much has been adamant in its demands that nato and its allies. guarantees that this will not be used against russia. in the past we've often been promised you wouldn't expect then we were promised that need to. expand and. we need guarantees but i'd like to say we're not going to raise this discussion. to engage in dialogue it is natural that all of these issues of course will crop up during the russia 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. or clashes in lebanon between the groups for and against the assad

regime across the border have left nine people dead and more than forty wounded and independence un panelist to investigate last week's massacre in syria which more than a hundred people including many children were slaughtered damascus and government forces are blaming each other for orchestrating. arab league is now discussing the crisis in syria qatar and saudi arabia purging more aid to the rebels. at the meeting of arab ministers that the country is slipping into an all out civil war and. to cease all violence. and he's warning not to rush to conclusions about the tragedy russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov referred to the balkans war in the ninety's he described how a group of european officials caused nato to intervene by declaring a serb genocide which was not there to openly confirmed serbian political analyst. says the current situation in syria has parallels with the balkans war lessons of

which he believes have not been learned. atrocity management has done wonders first for the bosnian muslims during the bosnian war in ninety two to ninety five and then for the costs of albanians in the run up to the nato bombing of one thousand nine the political utility of atrocity management and we have to ask in this particular case who has to gain from this situation certainly not the syrians slaughtering innocent civilians under the noses of international observers this thing stinks to heaven and i would bet my last gold needle that we are indeed looking at a case of premeditated cold blooded murder of civilians by deceived by the syrian rebels in order to provoke international intervention. also ahead for you this hour emerald austerity ali says yes to the new fiscal treaty in a referendum even though it means brussels taking over rule control the country's

national economic policy. and raging over roadblocks and we serve protesters clashed with nato peacekeepers barricades and consider. now egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak who's given the last sentence on saturday has been admitted to a prison hospital after reportedly suffering a heart attack on his way from the court five of the lifetime an acquittal of his two sons was considered too lenient by the triggering mass protests across the country demanding the death penalty for the post leader more than ten thousand gathered overnight in cairo bringing rage mob attacks the headquarters of presidential candidate on ballots last heard mr meek freelance journalist well truth is in tahrir square for. people at the moment really quite angry with the verdict cries when they heard of a 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 are lying come out and also. the interior ministry say 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 streaming angry about the court of people calling for a death sentence now so we still have several tens of thousands of people here with aunt and across egypt really very angry mubarak the family story is a large an appeal earlier as soon as the body was ready announced i mean that's one of the biggest fears the protesters are. fearing really is about you will actually . be successful with this field i know it's actually end up serving at his wife's center. this is why people are still on the streets basically people think believe the distribution system is transparent city think that perhaps that mubarak will be acquitted because that's what the regime always emerge 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 a member again of 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 in the background of the elections where the parks former prime minister mr feeney 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 the revolution is in fact it's not worth while so many foresee a revolution activists and current says the muslim brotherhood is trying to use the ground about mubarak's trial to its advantage in the upcoming presidential runoff people took the street for different reasons then you have to acknowledge that some revolutionary forces. because they think this is is the rebuilding itself again. mubarak is about to be acquitted if the court ruling is contested 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 it's mobarak. 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 presidential election. well time is running out for doing a song as his legal team and now has less than two weeks for a last ditch attempt to stop him being extradited to sweden britain's supremes court has ordered the wiki leaks founder be handed over to answer sex crime allegations. and his supporters fear however that stock may eventually send him to the u.s. to face espionage charges of the massive leaking of sensitive and embarrassing

american diplomatic cables sarah ferguson story. the truth shall set you free all know the supporters were out in force this week for julian assange tearing his appeal was rejected in a split five key decision by the judges after all the five hundred days of house arrest in britain he's now on the brink of deportation to sweden to answer questions about sexual assault accusations he's say a trumped up because you're going to remember that julian hasn't been charged with any crime in any country and it really is extraordinary that so much being extradited just for the purpose of questioning well. it all began when we started revealing uncomfortable truths about the u.s. government the afghanistan and iraq war logs shocking detail about the violent occupation of these countries the scale of civilian deaths and 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 potential whistleblowers that if they dare challenge the secrecy and indeed in many cases. 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 media that champion the standards of freedom of speech defender. spectacularly turned on him in recent times he didn't want to be a member of the club. and that was the problem. produced in a matter of. revelation about the workings of. the workings of the world in many ways how the world is wrong and all the news by western world put together. the word jealousy comes. in

a further twist in the 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 it he's disappointment among his cyclo to the station and a real sense that this wasn't just the last beginning in a stunt and his legal team but a loss for the british justice system as well sir. where british based investigative journalist attorney gosling. exposing of many wrongs to government level is being overlooked. welcome to the topsy turvy kingdom where we have people like tony blair who should be arranged for war crime crimes wandering the streets free and yet someone who's done more than anybody in the last fifty

years or so to advance the cause of radical publishing is under house arrest and possibly going to be even worse extradited and possibly end up in a jail in the united states i think ultimately we've got another here again this has been going on and on for eighteen months now. house arrest i think we should just take stock for a moment as the supreme court doesn't seem to have done at all of some of the achievements of wiki leaks we had the collateral murder video released twelve people being murdered from a helicopter including two reuters journalists we had on the show cable great diplomatic cables for one hundred fifty countries which was let's not forget credited with fueling and starting the arab spring no less now maybe i mean i just think it's possible that maybe this is one of the reasons why a son is under attack essentially as a radical publisher doing the investigative journalism unfortunately the western media recent who remember you can always watch any of us are his interview shows

aired on our chart r.t. dot com the latest installment to the sounds read various occupy protesters to hear their first turn story of how a small movement came what is now. german war a violent clash between near not just the nazi groups in on but it's led to more than seven hundred arrests of the footage on r.t. dot com. on thursday arlen voted yes to the e.u. fiscal treaty by a margin of sixty forty critics say the plan will impose long term austerity and loss of sovereignty from dublin to brussels and we cannot make affects artist or smith has more. ireland says yes to european austerity into law and seem pretty 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 shin fein leader gerry adams campaigned vigorously against the treaty and is now island's most popular party leader as a result. we're converted to the notion that you can't cut your way. up to get people. back into work. just banking. the greed of private bankers. so we. hold to those commitments they'll need to unemployment up to fifteen percent welfare payments a 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. 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. the restaurant business people are very very very careful on how they spend their money to pay the economies tightly balanced to the euro zone three bank loans and bailouts the treaty binds budget treat policy even tighter so that brussels will have a say over how island spends its money on healy of social justice island 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 actually generated rolls 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. you 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 stage that this would mean permanent austerity binion's 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 one told damage to the economy which is already very traumatized for ireland it seems

more damaging austerity is up ahead here in doubt played every case bristling with referendum posters the no 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 see over and see in exchange the financial back up but even that's not guaranteed believe they know it's me. or declan ganley founder of a party campaign for a no vote says europe at least a final target of to dumping huge debt on the irish people and 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 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 and to prevent contagion from spreading so what needs to be done now is europe needs to come up with a solution that either federalizes that debt and spreads it across all of the european union or that writes 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 the exchange to follow with angry protesters for demonstrators into german alliance soldiers were wounded in the clashes local serbs try to prevent troops from removing barricades they set up last year on the border with kosovo the roadblocks were erected in response to an attempt by ethnic albanian authorities to

impose border and customs controls serbs in kosovo rejected two thousand and eight the pens from serbia for political analyst alexander publishing belgrade says the presence of foreign troops only 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 and 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. well later this hour in our exclusive interview r.t. talks to serbia's newly elected president who says he's ready to maintain dialogue with pristina and. this is very limited progress is that i'm ready for dialogue but not with hashem touchy because there is a special that he committed crimes against the serbian people he cannot negotiate until the investigation of his case finishes but i will speak with other representatives after the bombing of serbia in one thousand nine hundred nine we left nato in the territory of cultivatable we gave them civil and military power

and we have a administration for communities and all because of it 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 hospitals schools and colleges i just follow the constitution and in serbia the president it guarantor our constitution says that kosovo and metohija are part of serbia. there are some other international news making headlines across the world and u.s. drone attack killed ten suspected militants in pakistan officials say four missiles were fired at a village near the afghan border early this morning the u.s. continues to launch drone attacks on pakistan despite requests from is that bad to end all strikes on its territory. thousands of students have marched in the streets of montreal in protest that proposed solution fee hikes came two days after talks collapsed between activists and the government aimed at ending months of sometimes

violent protest over to a half thousand people have been arrested since demonstrations began more than a dozen colleges and universities in quebec. to garner where ten people in a minibus have died after being hit by a cargo plane which crash landed at the country's main airport the plane overshot the runway and plowed into the packed vehicle for crew aboard the jet escape injuries and were taken to hospital it's not yet clear what caused the incident. 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 and this flame the software is said by experts at spurs kidnaps to have the capability to divide 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 on the spot it's thought of cause significant damage to p.c.'s affected experts are still trying to determine where it started but suspect that a single country may be the attack. 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 are currently three groups there are traditional cyber criminals who are hunting users data and this doesn't fit into the group of traditional cyber criminal moreover also it doesn't doesn't feed into the least 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 police nation state supported developments and that is why we think it's one of them. now media report accuses u.s.

and south korean special forces of power shooting into north korea to spy on underground military facilities that their information's not going to even further west an already bleak relations between north and south and washington and pyongyang the source was an american army general who admitted the missions took place over washington denies the claims and is now accusing the journalist behind the report of making up the quotes it comes as the u.s. is reinforcing its naval power in a pacific region already experiencing a lot of scale american buildup the author of the article x. and since that information your point is correct. at present both the pentagon and the lower level command whose general ah 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 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 it is is telling the truth when he says he was speaking hypothetically i regret that this thing got out of hand. well i bring you a recap of today's headlines on this week's top stories in just a few minutes. and

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now that the week's top stories here r.t. presence for the mayor putin has rejected calls for military intervention in syria and reiterated his view that the u.n. peace plan is the only way to prevent full scale civil war comments were made to speak during his first foreign tore off of his recent inauguration meeting with leaders of germany france and been a head of the russia the e.u. summit in st petersburg. rebels and government forces in syria trade blame accusations a little massacre in which at least one hundred eight people including many children died the u.n. orders investigation to find out who's responsible becomes as clashes between syrian government supporters and opponents of neighboring lebanon eight people dead

in the. rock bottom for ousted egyptian president hosni mubarak as he begins a lot. sentence handed down to his partner killing a bunch of the protesters last year and the ruling was closely followed by massive demonstrations across the country thousands rioting in the capital cairo angry that he's not to be executed. and time running out to produce a sound sure that less than two weeks left with his legal team to fall in appeal often with uses his battle against extradition to sweden in britain's supreme court on chinese supporters and it could eventually meet him being handed over to the u.s. to face espionage charges for leaking of american diplomatic cables last. our interview with serbia's newly elected president misled of college in which he talks about the road ahead for his country as it faces economic difficulties in.