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 european tour which met leaders of germany france and going to resign. as rebels and government forces in syria trade accusations they were the massacre in which at least one hundred eight people died the u.n. orders an investigation to find out who's really responsible. rock bottom gyptian as in the back gains and the life sentence handed down to his killing of hundreds of protesters last year but demonstrations on the current crowds angry he's not be executed. and time running out if you're in the sun less than two weeks left his legal team to peel off the whistleblower loses his battle against

extradition to sweden he refused the supreme court. you're watching artie's weekly news review a very warm welcome to today. the russia e.u. summit kicks off later today in st petersburg putin has already met some of europe's main players this week when a trip taking in baton rouge germany and france he talked tough on nato expansion u.s. missile defense shield plans moscow 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 the 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 it 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 russia is unilaterally supporting the assad regime room we have longstanding good relations with syria but we soon to be conflict. and agree with. that outcome an objective. both russian and german leaders seem to believe that 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 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 puttin 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 which and meeting with the french president of course was the issue of defense now russia's russia's adam a. the plans for creation of a missile defense shield in eastern europe a plan much hailed by nato and the united states as being very much needed by countries to counteract the suppose it possible strikes from the likes of iran and

north korea now these plans worry moscow very much and moscow has been adamant in its demands that nato and its allies present guarantees that this missile shield will not be used against russia. in the past we've often been promised you wouldn't expand then we were promised that nato wouldn't put military hold when the russian. expand and its bases spread no we need guarantees but i'd like to say we're not going to escalate this discussion we've already invited our partners to engage in dialogue it is natural that all of these issues of course will crop up during the russia e.u. summit which kicks off in st petersburg today and although we probably cannot expect a major breakthrough to be done it is clear that a lot of people a 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

. but clashes in lebanon between the groups for and against the regime across the border of that nine people dead and more than forty wounded and independence u.n. panel is to investigate last week with a massacre in syria in which more than one hundred people including many children were slaughtered damascus and government forces are blaming each other for orchestrating the attack. is now discussing the crisis in syria with qatar and saudi arabia pledging more aid to the rebels. warned that a meeting list is that the country slipping into an all out civil war and urged the president to cease all violence antiwar activists sara flounders explains why the court shows no signs of abating. it's important to know that it's the u.s. and nato who are creating a civil war in syria in terms of arming commando mercenaries thought flooding the country with weapons doing everything that they can to destabilize

syria and the latest massacre in houla is just one more example because it's this exact scenario that the u.s. has used to justify quote humanitarian intervention in the past and after they create total destabilization send in all sorts of mercenaries and armed groups and they claim that they're going in in order to save the situation it's absolute hypocrisy and fraud and they've done it with the u.n. security council support and they've done it without u.n. security council support and we've seen this in the past and it's clear that the u.s. is not interested in a diplomatic solution they are in every way trying to move toward military intervention which means massive destruction of the entire country but they're already responsible for great destruction well that's the strife in syria drags on

the rebels are being sustained by a constant flow of alms reportedly coming through neighboring lebanon but this deadly trade is also about faith not just money. reports. as solo shows off his goods. this is five thousand dollars thirteen hundred eighteen hundred and two thousand and seven machine guns between two and a half from three thousand euros. 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 on syrian rebels are his major clients are very popular but recently they're looking for really have the 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 in the 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 is not the key reason shaadi is a sunni muslim and to him it's his holy do you support his co religious fighters in syria for sure we. will help them topple assad they do it in sunni dominated no flab 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 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. borders and he says every day tons of these aid go through his hands but for him it's not enough as soon as he gets better he'll return to syria. is a sellafield a radical sunni group whose influence in this part of lebanon is growing dramatically. their demonstrations in favor of the syrian uprising a role so the support package every ounce. we also made some of fish a call my bakley one of the founders of the band islamic group this is packet of links to international terrorism but he says his input in the syrian revolt in

sending the rebels the ideas and encouragement to achieve the ultimate goal would be to make all the overthrow of the government we will make or the scholars speak for against these issues and make them all up lies against government and other such a fish a can tripoli runs this car parts shop he confirms that every sunni and especially every summer fist here in lebanon is involved either ideologically or financially in what he calls syrian liberation. to help the tunisian and egyptian revolution. 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. she reporting from northern lebanon.

well so they had few this austerity says yes to the e.u. first new treaty in a referendum for their bosses taking control of the country's national economic policy. and raging at roadblocks and to serve protesters clashed with nato peacekeepers in the barricades in kosovo. 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 while being taken from court over the life term in the control of his two sons is considered too lenient like many of us protests across the country people demanding the death penalty for the proposed leader tens of thousands gathered overnight in cairo when a range mob attacked the headquarters of presidential candidate. mr. freelance journalist truth is in the square for after. people at the moment are really quite

angry with the verdict this guys from a kind of a bar it was given twenty five years of life sentence they were euphoric because people busy making would just be done for corruption charges however they realized that his sons and also. the interior ministry's a six police officers would not be quite so its people started to realize that perhaps the verdict wasn't what they wanted so what we saw was actually a mass on pricing a process egypt where people basically came to the streets are streaming angry about the court of people calling for justice and now so we still have several tens of thousands of people here on across egypt really very angry mubarak's the funny story is they've got chain 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. the. these except two of these you know such really end up serving his life sentence this is why people are still on

the streets basically people to believe that they do system is transpiring this think that perhaps that bar will be acquitted because that's what they receive the old regime are 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 lightly they want to hear they want to see the death sentence they wanted his sons to be put in prison at the same time even the background of elections where the barak's former prime minister which defeats is actually considered to be one of the most part. makes the most popular candidates so people are really fearing is that this regime will never end and the revolution is in fact it's not worse well the muslim brotherhood's candidate in egypt's presidential election will see that if elected he would retry hosni mubarak along with several of his the officials so they foresee a revolution activists in cairo says the brotherhood is actively trying to use the route about mubarak's trial to its advantage in the upcoming presidential runoff.

people took to study it for different reasons and you have to acknowledge that some revolutionary forces. because they think is is the rebuilding itself again mubarak is about to be acquitted if the court ruling is contested before political and this is this is expected by the way and others particularly muslim brotherhood wanted to portray their candidates in the presidential elections of course the second round. as a candidate of the egyptian revolution again this is the old regime again it's more barak and they give mr also. 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 brazil election. but time is running out for julian assange says he's a legal team now has less than two weeks for the 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 allegations and sounds and his supporters fear however that stockholm may eventually sent him to the u.s. to face espionage charges of the mass leaking of sensitive and embarrassing american diplomatic cables on the 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 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 that julian hasn't been charged with any crime in any country and it really is extraordinary so much pain actually joy just for the purpose of questioning. it all began when we started revealing

uncomfortable truths about the u.s. government the afghanistan and iraq war logs gave shocking detail about the violent occupation of those 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 overturn to be so close that if they dare challenge the secrecy and indeed in many cases war crimes 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 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 up in the workings of the world in many ways how the world is wrong when all the news by western world put together. the word jealousy comes. in a further twist. in the tail 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 richard. it should not be have. heard. whether she is disappointment among his supporters at the station and a real sense that this wasn't just the last stand and his legal team but a loss for the british justice system as well sir. but remember you can always watch any of us on his interview shows i don't know much of that dot com

in the latest installment of various occupy protesters to hear the first hand story of how a small group came what is now. and the german war zone a violent clash between the and the arts is an anti nazi groups and come back to more than seven hundred arrests the footage on r.t. dot com. on thursday island 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 can all make affairs what is there a smith has more. island says yes to writing european austerity into law and ceding more sovereignty to brussels the sixty forty result saw a split between rich and poor with middle class 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 the government real number of commitments during. we're converted to the notion that you can't cut your way. up to get people. back into work to argue against just banking. the result of the greed a 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 full 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. another three full time jobs. possible income is it's a huge factor it's the discretionary spend that people have. you can see it throughout . the restaurant. and 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 arlen 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 to actually generate the goals 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 all but two. but governments have already signed it the u.s. will give power to an unpopular treaty france's new president francois hollande has talked about trying to renegotiate the pact and germany's angela merkel despite having written the treaty can't get her own parliament to ratify it richard boyd of the united left alliance sees a bleak future because of all of the gambling debts and banks and speculators of import on to the books of the state that this would mean permanent austerity billions 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 one told damage to the economy which is already very traumatized for ireland it

seems more damaging austerity is up ahead here in dublin every lamp 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 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 the spice islands a yes vote there still deep skepticism the treaty will actually ate the country's financial recovery director of the national platform for us search and information center i think often says that europe's austerity plans own to helping anyone and that germany's cuts proposals come with questionable legality. things are going to get worse and worse in my judgment the fifty percent unemployment rate as high as you like to rise the immigration to get worse and so on because the austerity is

being pressed all over the eurozone or particularly in the in the peripheral countries including alan i don't see any real improvement coming about and there are certainly programs we pushed on the euro zone by the european central bank and others and. said she is happening in my view with that of many others as a kind of german led takeover bid for the eurozone. and with questionable legality that is why there are actual legal challenges constitutional challenges in germany itself in a stall he added to the european stability mechanism treaty which is to set up this problem bailout fund but everyone knows that most people think the sub's of money involved are insufficient and this one can't be set up on the relevant treaty is ratified the same treaty which already is beginning beginning to talk about that because the government will probably seek to ratify that next month though as i said earlier it's subject constitutional challenge in the irish courts so we still hear more about referendums in ireland down the road. on friday and peacekeepers

deployed in northern cos are exchanged fire with angry protesters for demonstrators in two german alliance soldiers were wounded in the clashes. try to prevent troops from moving barricades they set up last year on the border with constable roadblocks were wrecked in response to an attempt by ethnic albanian authorities to impose a border and customs controls serbs in kosovo reject its two thousand eight hundred paintings from serbia. gray says the presence of foreign troops in 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 and 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 at 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 is a quick preview for you. because of the reasons that i'm ready for dialogue but not

with her because there is suspicion 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 course of we gave them civil and military power we have a ministration for communities in northern kosovo and the e.u. has asked us to abolish these serbian institutions we responded that we cannot do that because we have a university that hospitals schools and colleges i just follow the constitution and in serbia that the president is its current or our constitution says that kosovo and metohija are parts of serbia. that are some other international news making headlines across the world this hour u.s. drone attack has killed ten suspected militants in pakistan officials say four missiles were fired at a village in the afghan border early on sunday morning the u.s. continues to launch drone attacks despite requests from islamabad to end all

strikes on its territory. thousands of students have marched through the streets of montreal protest that opposed to mission fee hikes came two days after talks collapsed between activists and the government aimed at ending months of sometimes violent protests over two and a half thousand people have been arrested since demonstrations by dad doesn't qualities and interest is in quebec. to garner now where ten people in a minibus have died after being hit by a cargo plane which crashed landed at the country's main airport the plane overshot the runway and plowed into the packed vehicle for crew aboard the jet escape the injuries were taken to hospital it's not yet clear what caused the incident. but i'll be back shortly with the headlines do stay with us.

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