and eastern block now off you went afterwards to berlin on a whirlwind visit which lasted for only half a 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 their action 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. i agree with. both russian and german leaders seem to believe that the coffee on speace 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 and 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 which in the meeting with the french president of course was the issue of missile defense now russia's russia's adamant that the plan 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 now these plans of worry mall. 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 it wouldn't explain then we were promised that need to wouldn't put military hardware to russia 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 been ready to engage in dialogue it is natural that all of these issues of course will crop up during the rush 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 of these topics. between groups for and against the 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 orchestrating. the discussing the crisis in the qatar and saudi arabia pledging more aid to the rebels. meeting of arab ministers that the country is slipping into an all out civil war and 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 two groups have been actually documented by you and. in syria so far. it's very clear that there are local regional and international

powers that are adamant on a spark and go off some sort of civil war in syria based on sectarian criteria and ethnic 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 who need. 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 if with the step they have to bear with it this is not libya this is not yemen this is. a strife in syria drags on the rebels are being sustained by a constant flow of arms purportedly 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 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 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 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 ends for the weapons dealers but money's not the key reason shoddy is a sunni muslim and to him it's his holy duty to support his co religious fighters in syria for sure we. will help them topple assad they do it. in sunni dominated no flood 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 and lot more than prayers. akhmed 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 he's now having treatment in lebanon but his not stopped fighting entirely

. we have supported the syrian experts everywhere in the world people from britain france saudi arabia also send us the money we buy 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 part of the support package everything sounds. 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 the ultimate goal what

would be to make all the overthrow of the government we will make order schools speak for against the. issues make them all up lies against the c.i. government and other such a fish a can triple the 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 helped the tunisian and egyptian revolutions we want syrians now to get rid of this regime. shake marzan doesn't wear muslim white robes and keeps his beard sacred to every seven feet short so as not to draw too much attention he says everybody has something these days just to see their mission and i saw. syria completed. durational snotty reporting from northern lebanon. also ahead few the emerald to austerity hollande says yes to the e.u.

this new treaty and a referendum even that means brussels taking overall control of the country's national economic policy. raging at roadblocks angry serb protesters clashed with nato peacekeepers have barricades and long considered. 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 pope's leader more than ten thousand gathered over night in cairo where raised more but headquarters of presidential candidate that's next prime minister ahmed shafik journalist bill truth is in tahrir square for r.t. . people at the moment really quite angry with the verdict first 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 are lying come out and also. the interior ministry say six police officers would not be were actually of course it's people started to realize that perhaps the verdict wasn't what they wanted so what we saw was actually a mass on crazy a process egypt where people basically came to the streets are streaming angry about the fact that the lot of people are calling for a death sentence now so we still have several tens of thousands of people here with aunt across egypt really very angry mubarak the funny story is did actually lodge an appeal earlier a scene is about it was really announced i mean that's one of the biggest fears the protesters are. fearing really is that you will actually. be fixed. so is this hero i know such me and upstanding his life sentence this is why people stay on the streets basically people think believe that efficient system is transparent so they

think that perhaps that mubarak will be acquitted because that's what the regime always see which stayed 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 in a bar a get out from like me they want to hear they want to see the death sentence they wanted his sons to be put in prison and the same time in the background of the elections where the bar exposed the prime minister which defeats is actually considered to be one of the most of what makes the most popular candidate 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 activists in cairo says the muslim brotherhood is trying to use the valid 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. because they think this is is that the building itself again the 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 bertie clearly a muslim brotherhood they wanted to portray their candid this exhibit is then show elections of course the second round. as a candidate of the egyptian revolution again this is the old regime again it's mobarak and they're going to stall so is 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 brazilian election. now time is running out for julian this song which is his legal team 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 occasions when his supporters fear however that stock vengefully sent him to the u.s. to face espionage charges and mass leaking of sensitive and embarrassing american

diplomatic cables. the story. the truth shall set you free all. the supporters were out in full six weeks for julian assange to 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 say a trumped up because you point your member julian hasn't been charged with any crime in any country and it really is extraordinary that someone is being extradited 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 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. 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 with a 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 defend. 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 democratic of the workings of the world in many ways how the world is wrong when all the

newspapers in western world put together. the word jealousy comes. in effect the 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 happening but it's certainly unnecessary the chief disappointment among his supporters at the station and a real sense that this wasn't just a loss beginning in a staunch and his legal team but a loss for the british justice system as well sir. the british press investigative journalist tony ghosting. is exposing of many wrongs up to 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 has 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 year 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 at all 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 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 isn't. remember you can always watch any of assad's interview show. on what dot com the latest installment. of occupy protesters. first turned story of course movement became what it is now. violent clash between a nazis and anti nazi groups and has led to more than seven hundred arrests watch the footage. on thursday island voted yes to the e.u. fiscal treaty by a margin of sixty eight forty eight critics say the plan impose a long term austerity and permanent loss of sovereignty from dublin to brussels of economic affairs what is more smith has more. ireland says yes to writing european austerity into law and ceded more still 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 sinn fein leader gerry adams campaigned vigorously against the treaty and it's now islands most popular party leader as a result the government. during. we're converted to the notion that you can cut your way. up to get people. back into work. 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.

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 it throughout. the restaurant. people are very very very careful on how they spend their money to pay the economy is tightly bound to be. 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 of the scale that's required actually generated 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 but 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 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 for financial backup but even that's not guaranteed in a beleaguered euro as they know it's me. but 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 says a plan b. is now vital for the eurozone. we have to get out of this terrible dead end between . the rescues unconditional you rescues all the other hand the people in

germany and other countries who come back here or might close the historical compromise i say to all the current the account surplus countries let's let's retain the euro as a legal one legal tender but that's the due way with the use of the single currency of the use of the area as a currency are not be able to survive so who has made all these wrong you know this 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 partial defeat every responsible politician and i appeal to the political elite in europe has to elaborate a plan b. nothing is more urgent as a plan b.

. on friday a nato led peacekeepers deployed in northern causes are 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 wrecked in response to an attempt by ethnic albanian florence's to impose a border and customs controls serbs in kosovo reject its two thousand a tech nation independence from serbia. amistad exam the passage in 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 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 bathed in 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 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 there using the power of 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 early this morning the u.s.

continues to launch drone attacks on pakistan despite requests from islamabad to end all strikes on its territory. thousands of students of marched through the streets of montreal in protest that proposed solution fee hikes came two days after talks collapsed between activists in the government aimed at ending months of sometimes violent protests or two and a half thousand people have been arrested since demonstrations began in a dozen qualities and universities in quebec. to garner 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 powered 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. well a special report on the war in vietnam and a couple of minutes before that i was back with

a recap of today's top stories. i had a family i lived in a fairly nice community wasn't rich it was an upscale it was just like you know archie bunker society ok then they started showing up here what happened was my company decided i could get cheap labor and they got rid of us. through zero.

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the week's top stories herald out president vladimir putin has rejected calls for military intervention in syria and rejuvenated his view that the u.n. peace plan is the only way to prevent full scale civil war comments were made this week during his first foreign tour after the recent movie ration meeting the leaders of germany france and loose head of the russian east summit in st petersburg. just rebels and government forces in syria trade blame accusations they would really massacre at least one hundred eight people including many children died the u.n. orders investigation to point out who's really responsible comes as clashes between syrian government supporters and opponents labor led but eight people dead.

ousted egyptian president hosni mubarak as he begins a life sentence handed down for his part in the killing of hundreds of protesters last year the ruling was a closely followed by massive demonstrations across. thousands of rioting in the capital cairo and that he's not to be executed. time running out for tuna sandwich with less than two weeks left for his legal team to follow in the heel of the whistleblower loses his battle against extradition to sweden in britain supreme court santelli supporters mentioning the u.s. to face espionage charges in the making of american diplomatic cables. next we bring you the disturbing story of how the u.s. military used highly toxic herbicide chemicals and vietnam and even a devastating legacy. the u.s. air force kept detailed records of this.