president vladimir putin brushes off the notion of military intervention in syria saying the u.n. peace plan is the only way forward comments made during a european tour on which he met in the days of france germany and better routes. that's rebels and government forces in syria trade accusations over the massacre in which at least one hundred eight people died the u.n. investigation to find out who's really responsible. rock bottom for hours today gyptian president hosni mubarak. and life sentence handed down for his part in the killing of hundreds of protesters last year the demonstrations follow the court verdict. crowds angry he's not to be executed. but time running out for julia sanford less than two weeks left for his legal team to fall on the heels of the whistleblower losing his battle against extradition to sweden in

britain supreme court. this is artie's weekly news review welcome to the program kerry just. the russia e.u. summit kicks off later today in st petersburg but putin has already met some of europe's main players this week on a trip taking in germany and france he talked tough on nato expansion u.s. missile defense shield plans moscow's stance on the ongoing violence in syria. has the details. was it puts in 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 with 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 room we have longstanding good relations with syria but we soon to the conflict if the situation i agree with. don't come in. with both russian and german leaders seem to believe that coffee on speed splenda should be seen to progress to excess fully at the moment it does seem like it's how 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 with the french president of course was the issue of missile defense now russia's 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 pose a possible strikes from the likes of iran and north korea now these plans were very

much in 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 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 it's been you know we need guarantees but i'd like to say we're not going to escalate this discussion we've already partners to engage in dialogue it is natural that all of these issues of course will crop up during the rush 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. for clashes in lebanon between groups for and against the assad

regime across the border nine people dead and more than forty wounded independent u.n. panel is to investigate last week's massacre in syria in which more than a hundred people including many children were slaughtered damascus government forces are blaming each other for conspiring to. have the is now discussing the crisis in the qatar and saudi arabia pledging more aid to the rebels were warned that a meeting of arab ministers that the country slipping into an all out civil war there is to present to cease all violence but a former syrian ambassador to turkey thinks there will be an escalation of foreign funded terrorism. over five thousand violations by the groups have been actually documented by you and observers in syria so far. it's very clear that there are local regional and international

powers and on a sparking of some sort of civil war in syria based on sectarian criteria and i think factors they are trying now to play their final card which is the sectarian factor the ethnic factor that's why we anticipate that some more massacres will take place committed by those two groups fundamentalist salafist twenty six libyans to nugent's. and some citizens of other arab countries have been killed in action in syria and what they call it jihad what we call some terrorist acts against syrian civilians the syrian army and syrian security forces if they decide to take it for this is that they have to bear with it this is not libya this is not yemen this is. as a strife in syria drags on the rebels are being sustained by a constant flow of arms reportedly coming through neighboring lebanon but this

deadly trade is also a matter of faith not just money. for national reports and so it shows off his goods. this is five thousand dollars thirteen hundred eighteen hundred and two thousand the seven machine guns between two and three thousand u.s. parks shaadi not his real name also has rocket 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 really heavy stuff we buy from her and they're ours and resell they have a nerve and they're getting it for free as iran makes their entire story. it'll take no more than ten hours for this shot he says to reach lebanon's conflict and

gulf to neighbor since the beginning of the uprising in syria last march arms prices have rocketed for some items the coast has gone up five and sometimes even ten times and the more the conflict drags on the mall look at it 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 do you t. to support his co religious fighters in syria for sure we. will help them topple assad till they do it in sunni dominated no flub and on where we meet the arms dealer those who want assad out are in the absolute majority and they are sending their religious brothers in neighboring syria a lot more than prayers. mad twenty nine year old field commander from the free syrian army was wounded during the baba amr siege earlier this spring together with other injured f.s.a. members his now having treatment in lebanon but his not stopped fighting entirely.

we have support from syrian ex-pats everywhere in the world or people from britain france saudi arabia also send us money weapons walkie talkies. in the borders he says every day tons of this aid go through his hands but for him it's not enough as soon as he gets better he'll return to syria. is a selfie a radical sunni group whose influence in this part of lebanon is growing dramatically. there are demonstrations in favor of the syrian uprising a role so part of the support package everything sounds. we also 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 send in the rebels the ideas and encouragement to achieve the ultimate goal would be to make

call at the overthrow of the government we will make or the scholars speak for against these issues make them all up lies i guess the government and other some officiate can triple the runs this car parts shop he confirms that every sunni and especially every salafist here in lebanon is involved either ideologically or financially in what he calls syrian liberation. 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 to every selfie shot so as not to draw too much attention he says everybody sacrifices something these days just to see their mission and assad free syria completed. an r.t. reporting from northern lebanon. well so i had few this emerald to austerity all and says yes to the e.u.

this new treaty in a referendum even though it means brussels taking overall control of the country's national economic policy. raging at roadblocks and greece protests clashed with nato peacekeepers of the barricades and long course of. 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 court however the life time and acquittal of his two sons was considered too lenient by many triggering mass protests across the country people demanding the death penalty for the post leader more than ten thousand gathered overnight in cairo wearing mob attacked the headquarters of presidential candidate that's night prime minister ahmed shafik journalist bill truth is in tahrir square for ati. people at the moment are really quite angry with the verdict is far from a crowd of a barak 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 and also. the interior ministry say six police officers would not be acquitted people started to realize that perhaps the verdict wasn't what they wanted so what we saw was actually a mass on grazier cross 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 and across egypt really very angry mubarak the funny stories did actually lodge an appeal earlier i assume is about it was really announced i mean that's one of the biggest fears the protesters are. fearing really is that he will actually. be picked up to his heels i'm not touching me end up serving his life sentence which is why people are still in this. basically people think believe that if you think this your system is transparent.

think then perhaps that barak 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 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 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 get the repetition is in fact it's not worth. while some may foresee a revolution activists in cairo says the muslim brotherhood is trying to use the valuable barracks 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 the minister because they think this is is the rebuilding itself again the mubarak is about to be acquitted if the court ruling is going to

be for the appellate court and this is this is expected by the way and others particularly muslim brotherhood they wanted to portray their candidates in the because the elections of course a second. as a candidate of the egyptian revolution again this is the old regime again is mobarak and they're going to stall so is a 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 brazilian election. now time is running out for julian this song which is his legal team that has less than two weeks for a last ditch attempt to stop him being extradited to sweden britain's supreme court has ordered that we can expand to be handed over to answer sex crimes are a geisha it's a sound on his supporters fear however that stock may eventually send him to the u.s.

to face espionage charges and the mass leaking of sensitive and embarrassing american diplomatic cables on the surface the story. the truth shall set you free all. the supporters were out in force this week for julian assange tearing his appear was rejected in a split five two 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 say a trumped up basic point to remember that julian hasn't been charged with any crime in any country and it really is extraordinary that someone's been 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 gave 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 but 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 establishment that seek to silence him and wiki leaks and it's not just the government media that championed the songes of freedom of speech to. 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

papers western world put together. the word jealousy comes. in effect the twist in the tale the 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. really a ritual. that should not be happening but it's certainly unnecessary but if he is disappointment among his supporters at the station and a real sense that this wasn't just the last beginning a staunch and his legal team but a loss for the british justice system as well sir that. london. british space investigative journalist tony ghosting. is exposing of many wrongs up 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 crimes 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 he's 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 stop for a moment as the supreme court doesn't seem to have done a tour of some of the achievements of wiki leaks we had the collateral murder which was the 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. is under attack essentially as a radical publisher doing the investigative journalism unfortunately the western

media isn't. remember you can always watch any of assad's interview show on our channel at auntie dot com with the latest installment in a standard method various occupy protesters had their first chance story and possibly became what it is now. germany was violent clash between new nazis and anti nazi groups and it's led to more than seven hundred arrests for some footage. 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 and economic affairs but is there a smith has more. arland 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 urban dwellers against shin fein leader gerry adams campaigned vigorously against the treaty and is now island's most popular party leader as a result the government. we're converted to the notion that you can't cut your way. up to get people. back into work. just banking. the 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 to and five full time employees for part time to full time to part time we had a restaurant upstairs which is now closed that's another three full time jobs. is it's a huge factor it's the discretionary spend that people have. you can see it throughout . the restaurant. and people are very very very careful on how they spend their money to pay the economy is tightly bound to be a euro zone three bank 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. but 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 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 that 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 every post is 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 in a beleaguered euro as they know it's me. well meanwhile fears that the eurozone may collapse have forced the u.k. to draw up contingency plans prime minister david cameron has met policymakers to ensure britain is prepared for the worst even though the country isn't a member of the single currency preschool economist marcus cabot says a plan b. is now vital for the eurozone. we have to get out of this terrible dead between.

the rescue is unconditional you rescues of the other hand the people in germany and other countries who come back here or might close the historical compromise i say to overcome the account surplus countries let's let's retain the euro as a legal one legal tender but that's the do way with the use of the single currency of the use of area as a currency or not be able to survive so who has made all these wrong prognosis will not admit defeat so the problem today is that the people who made these gigantic errors of judgment are still in power they're in power in brussels power in france in germany and they are not willing to say let's take a look at plan b. because that would be implicitly the admittance of defeat every responsible politician and i appeal to the political elite in europe has to elaborate a plan b. nothing is more as a plan b.

. on friday a nato led peacekeepers deployed in northern causes or exchanged fire with angry serb protesters for demonstrators and two german alliance soldiers were wounded in the clashes that try to prevent troops from removing barricades they set up last year on the border with corser the roadblocks were erected in response to an attempt by i think albania thirty years to impose border and customs controls serbs in kosovo rejected two thousand a tech nation independence from serbia. and mr alexander belgrade says the presence of foreign troops only 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 and independent crossover 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 bare handed people on our own people so actually peace is the last thing 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. some of the international headlines for you now the u.s. drone attack has killed ten suspected militants in pakistan officials say four missiles were fired at a village near the afghan border and this morning the u.s.

continues to the launch drone attack somebody stone despite requests from is not about to end all strikes on its territory. thousands of students have marched through the streets of montreal in protest up to which hikes came two days after talks collapsed between activists in the government and ending months of sometimes violent protests over two hundred thousand people have been arrested since demonstrations began in the dozen quantities and cities 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 four crew aboard the jet escaped with just injuries were taken to hospital it's not yet clear what caused the incident. what a special report on the war in vietnam and a couple of minutes before that on the back with

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