the beginning of the suppose that the plan 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 who seemed to see eye to eye on the matters concerning syria now earlier in the week u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton said that russia is aiding to the troubles in syria by continuing to support the regime of president bashar al assad to which of course the russian president prepared a response. but usually russia is unilaterally supportive you said regime. we have longstanding good relations with syria but. the conflict. i agree with. both russian and german leaders seem to believe that that peace plan should be seen to progress to fully at the moment it does seem like a strong a. 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 or also earlier in the week did mention that france supports military intervention in the middle eastern country and of course that is something that russia is adamantly against and that was one of the matters discussed by putin on his last leg of the european tour which took him to paris now of course there is no agreement on the issue of syria among the european leaders among other issues which were also discussed or mentioned to put in a meeting with the french president of course was the issue of missile defense now russia russia is adamant that the plans for creation of the missile defense shield in eastern europe a plan much hailed by nato and the united states as being very much needed by countries to counteract suppose a possible strike. the likes of iran in north korea now these plans worry 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 good news you wouldn't expect then we were promised a new two wouldn't put military hardware near russia but we've seen it expand and its bases spread you know we need guarantees but i'd like to say we're not going to escalate this discussion we've been ready and willing to go partners to engage in dialogue it is natural that all of these issues of course will crop up during the russian e.u. summit which kicks off in st petersburg today and although we probably cannot expect a major breakthrough to be done it is clear that a lot of people 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

. clashes in lebanon between the groups for and against the assad regime across the border of the nine people dead and more than forty wounded an independent u.n. panel is to investigate last week's massacre in syria which more than one hundred people including many children were slaughtered damascus and anti government forces are blaming each other for orchestrating it the arab league is now discussing the crisis in syria with saudi arabia pledging more aid to the rebels. are meeting of arab ministers that the country slipping into civil war and there is the present. violence in damascus syria's leader has defended the path of reform once again outside forces for instigating the conflict in the country. meanwhile the b.b.c. news website has faced ongoing criticism this week of it posted a picture taken in iraq almost ten years ago to illustrate the massacre commenting on this journalist and human rights investigator. says there's simply no way it

could have been used by mistake this particular photograph claiming to be a massacre of children in syria with years from major government about the gander accusing saddam hussein's government of killing all his children often first by so it was a nasty piece of propaganda it was very well known where his photograph came from if people believe that this is accidental or it's citizen journalism they really deceiving themselves these images are certainly used to peddle the war the manufacture of consent as we were given by the book. of the claim that we can't get journalists into syria i think is nonsense there are cia agents there him and i think there are most not agents all over the place in syria at this very moment as they were in libya manufacturing images about libya claiming to be you tube videos there are citizen journalism you can see from the label activist or photo from activists i mean that's nonsense to the b.b.c. just doesn't do their bit up or down photos from an activist in post and without

everything they do is fact checked this is crap and you know no mistake no act of. strife in syria drags on the rebels are being sustained by a constant flow of arms possibly coming through neighboring lebanon but this deadly trade is also a matter of faith not just money we're flushing reports a seller shows off his goods. this is five thousand dollars on the story two hundred eighteen hundred and two thousand and seven machine guns between two and a half and three thousand u.s. parks. not his real name also has a rocket propelled and ten degree needs 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 a really heavy stuff we buy from here and. 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 rains for the weapons dealers but money is not the key reason shaadi is a sunni muslim and to him it's his holy duty to support his co religious fighters in syria for sure. they do it in a sunni dominated no fly zone where we meet the arms dealer those who want assad out are in the absolute majority and they are send in their villages brothers in neighboring syria a lot more than prayers. akhmed twenty nine year old field commander from the free

syrian army was wounded during the bubble armor siege earlier this spring together with other injured f.s.a. members he's now having treatment in lebanon but his not stopped fighting entirely . we have supported syrian experts everywhere in the world or people from britain france saudi arabia also send us money weapons walkie talkies. 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 sellafield 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 cases his input in the syrian revolt in send in the rebels the ideas and encouragement to achieve the ultimate goal what would be to make all the overthrow of the government would make all the squabbles speak for against the. issues and make them all applies again the c.i. government and other selfish a 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's. syria completed.

she reporting from northern lebanon. well still ahead for you this hour emerald austerity olen says yes to the e.u. school treaty a referendum even though it means brussels take full control of the country's national economic policy. and raging at roadblocks and research protesters clashed with nato peacekeepers over barricades in the 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 while being taken from court however the lifetime an acquittal of his two sons was considered to be many triggering mass protests across the country people demanding the death penalty for the pows and the. ten thousand gallon overnight in cairo were enraged mob attacked the headquarters of presidential candidate as prime minister. journalist bill truman's in times square.

people at the moment are really quite angry with the verdict in the us from a kind 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 son and also. the interior ministry say six peace officers would not be actually quite so 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 cross egypt where people basically came to the streets are streaming angry about the lot of people calling for justice and. so we still have several tens of thousands of people here with aunt and across egypt really very angry mubarak the family stories 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 about you relaxed me. the successor was killed

i know subtly end up serving his full life sentence which is why people are still on the streets basically people take believe that if you could use your system is transparent so they think that perhaps that part will be acquitted because that's what the regime the old regime is still in place once people are beginning to make the connections between what they consider to be the old regime and the new regime which the military council basically what they seen is mubarak get off 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 you know the background of elections where the parks former prime minister mr feature is actually considered to be one of the most probably want to make 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 worth well the muslim brotherhood's candidate in egypt's presidential election one hundred mercy that if elected he would retry hosni mubarak on with several of his the officials somebody

for revolution activists and kyra says the brotherhood is actively trying to use the roundabout 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 the ministry because they think. is is the rebuilding 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 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 is the old regime again is more barak and they give mr also the state establishment candidate in this race there's a muslim brotherhood this is strange to capitalized on what's going on for the sake of the presidential election when time is running out for june the son dies his

legal team now has less than two weeks for a last ditch attempt to stop him being extradited to sweden britain's supreme court has ordered the wiki leaks pound to be handed over to answer sex crimes allegations and sounds and his supporters fair however that stock a may have benchley send him to the u.s. to face espionage charges and the massive leaking of sensitive and embarrassing american diplomatic cables forty five has a story. the truth shall set you free all know the supporters were out in full six weeks for julian assange tearing his appeal was rejected in a split five t. decision by the judges after all the five hundred days of house arrest in person he's now in the brink of deportation to sweden to answer questions about sexual assault accusations he's say a trumped up basic point you remember the jury and hasn't been charged with any crime in any country and it really is extraordinary so much pain actual 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 scaife shocking detail about the violent occupation of these countries the scale of civilian deaths on potential war crimes all at the hands of u.s. forces and the swedish arrest warrant wasn't far behind i think this will send a chilling effect to all potential be so close that if they dare challenge the secrecy and indeed in many cases war crimes of united states they will face retribution and that's bad for democracy it's bad for human rights the case is being seen by many as a david and goliath style fight with a stanch taking on not just the legal system but the establishment that seek to silence him and wiki leaks and it's not just the government media that champion the songes of freedom of speech defend spectacularly turned on him in recent times he

didn't want to be a member of the club. and that was the problem we could reach produced in a matter of. revelation about the workings of the private drug use and the workings of the world in many ways how the world is wrong when or when used by the 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. really true. it should not be happy. that he is disappointment among his football to the decision and a real sense that this wasn't just the last stand and his legal team but a loss for the british justice system. sara. i remember you

can watch any of his interview shows aired on our channel that's r.t. dot com but in the latest story in the soundtrack for various occupy protesters to hear their first time story a small movement became what it is now. german. violent clash between the air nazis and two nazi groups and has led to more than seven hundred arrests. on thursday island yes to the e.u. fiscal treaty by a margin of sixty to forty critics say the plan will impose long term austerity and loss of sovereignty from dublin to brussels economic affairs or smith. 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 sheahan famed leader gerry adams campaigned vigorously against the treaty and is now island's most popular party leader as a result the government. but you can't cut your way. up to get people. to work. just banking. so we. 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 fall by hauff as locals batten down the hatches we would have had.

five full time employees bad for part time to full time to part time we had a restaurant upstairs which is. another three full time jobs. it's a huge factor it's the discretionary spend that people have. you can see it throughout. the restaurant. people are very very very careful on how they spend their money to pay the economies tightly bound to the euro zone through bank loans and bailouts the treaty binds budget treat policy even tighter so that brussels will have a say over how 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 generate the growth to produce the jobs choir defiance 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. member governments have already signed it the yes vote will give outage 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 stage that this would mean permanent austerity indians' worth of courts every year for at least a decade or more in order to meet the treaty targets and that we believe will do on

told damage to the economy which is already very traumatized for ireland it seems more damaging austerity is up ahead here in doubt 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 yuri's they know it's me hearties. on friday nato led peacekeepers deployed in northern cos of their exchange of fire with angry serb protesters for demonstrators in two german alliance soldiers were wounded in the clashes. trying to prevent troops from being barricades things happening here one of the course of the road looks very directed in response to an attempt by you know forces to impose a border and customs controls so it was in course he rejected two thousand eight

declaration of independence from serbia. greatest as the presence of foreign troops and he 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 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 of that committee dull great to try to to establish a new reality on the ground in kosovo. now some of the international news making headlines at this hour. and u.s. drone attack killed ten suspected militants in pakistan officials say four missiles were fired at the village near the afghan border any on sunday morning u.s. continues to know what's drone attacks despite requests from islamabad to end all strikes on its territory. thousands of students have marched through the streets of montreal in protest that proposed to actually be hikes came two days after talks collapsed between activists and the government ended ending months of sometimes violent protests more than two and a half thousand people have been arrested since demonstrations began in

a dozen qualities in quebec. to ghana 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 path to be a call for crew aboard the jet escaped with 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 over russian internet security specialists in the latest computer virus that swept through the middle east last week known as flame the malicious software is said by experts that kaspersky that ads to have the capability to devour data like nothing you've seen before is believed. to organizations were targeted in iran lebanon and sudan by the virus which is a standard security analysts by its power it's not of course significant damage to p.c.'s affected when experts are still trying to determine where it started but

suspect that a single country may be behind the attack. we suspect that. there is a nation state behind the development of these cyber attack. the reasons for that this doesn't feed into a new existing groups that develop cyber attack tools three groups there are traditional cyber criminals who are hunting users they and these doesn't fit into the group of traditional cyber criminals. also he doesn't doesn't feed into the smaller who are using typically free and open source tools to computers on the internet and this sort known group by the nation state supported developments and that is why we think it's one of them i'll bring you the headlines in just a few moments.

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they're you know watching r.t. the headlines now president bush has rejected calls for military intervention in syria reiterating that u.n. peace plan is the only way to prevent to scale civil war comments were made this week during his first foreign. meeting the leaders of germany france and the roost at the us. e.u. summit in st petersburg. as rebels and government forces in syria blame each other for the massacre in which at least one hundred eight people including many children killed the u.n. orders an investigation to find the culprits it comes as clashes between syrian government supporters and opponents in neighboring lebanon eight people dead and. big protests in egypt as ousted former president hosni mubarak begins

a life sentence for his part in the deaths of hundreds of protesters during last year's revolution thousands rioted in qatar or any other group that seems most to be executed. time's running out for tuna sounds with under a fortnight left for his legal team on it all stitcher feel that britain's supreme court what is his extradition to sweden to also sexual assault sections his support since it could eventually lead to being handed over to the u.s. to face espionage charges of the leaking of american diplomatic cables. well next how the tragic death of a russian girl inspired hundreds to join forces to help find missing people across the country. every noise in the most region several people.