president vladimir putin brushes off the notion of military intervention in syria saying the u.n. peace plan is the only way forward comments major european to which he went the leaders of germany france and better with. syria's president assad says his government had nothing to do with the houla massacre which over one hundred people were killed last week as the un orders an investigation to find out who was really responsible. brockport and for 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 demonstrations follow the court verdict in cairo with crowds angry not to be executed. and time running out for julian assange traverse than two weeks

left for his legal team to follow appeal after the whistleblower loses his battle against extradition to sweden and britain supreme court. welcome you're watching the weekly here on our roundup of the top news stories of the last seven days with me kevin i would and first the russian eve summit kicks off later today in some papers but putin's already met some of europe's main players this last week on a trip taking in belarus germany and france talk tough for nato expansion u.s. missile defense plans and moscow stance on the ongoing violence in syria is a ridiculous report. was it which 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 supposedly plan of economic and eastern bloc now off he went afterwards to berlin on a whirlwind visit which lasted for only hopwood 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 so we can see it but russia is unilaterally supporting the assad regime . we have longstanding good relations with syria but. the conflict which ensued and i agree with. the don't come in to. both russian and german leaders seem to believe that coffee on speed planet should be seen to

progress to excess fully at the moment it does seem like a strong a by the seemingly unstoppable of fighting on all sides in syria now of course and not all leaders in europe seem to agree with a 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 it during which in 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 supposedly possible strikes from the likes of iran in north korea now these plans of 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 expect 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 in going to openness 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 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. in the last syrian president bashar al assad says his country is facing a real war and once again forces from outside for instigating the conflict he said his government had nothing to do with the houla massacre in which more than one hundred people including many children died last week his comments come as an independent u.n. panels set up to begin investigating what happened in houla russia spoke out against a recent u.n. human rights council resolution condemning the syrian government for the atrocity says the move jeopardizes co finance peace plan by blaming only one side before the results of the first occasion and well earlier qatar and saudi arabia pledged more aid to the rebels former british intelligence officers to cope says the syrian conflicts most likely driven by foreign terrorist groups. the methodology this type of killing or beheading of slitting of throat slitting of throats of children

two and of the. bodies has been a characteristic not of love in islam not of syria not of lebanon but really of what happened in the anbar province of iraq and so it seems to point very much in the direction of groups that have been associated with the war in iraq against the united states who is perhaps returned to syria or iraq he's come up from anbar to take part of it yes we're talking about al qaeda like groups. there's very end of the spectrum of the opposition they may be a minority in terms of the numbers of the overall offices but they are now defining the war. as the strife in syria drags on the rebels are being sustained by a constant flow of arms reportedly coming through neighboring lebanon but this deadly trades also matter of faith to not just money for national report.

as solar shows off his goods. this is five thousand dollars and this is thirteen hundred eighteen hundred and two thousand the seven machine guns between two and a half and three thousand u.s. shoddy not his real name also has a rocket propelled and hand grenades which he showed me in private. 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 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. 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 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. syrian ex-pats everywhere in the world or people from britain the saudi arabia also

send his money weapons walkie talkies. 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 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 but 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 a call to overthrow the government will make all the scholars speak for against

these issues and make them all again to see a government and other such a fish 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 to get rid of this regime shake marzan doesn't wear muslim white robes and keeps his beard sacred to every selfie short so as not to draw too much attention he says everybody sacrifices something these days just to see their mission and i sad for. syria completed. durational snotty reporting from northern lebanon. to. stir take palin says yes to the e.u. fiscal treaty in a referendum even though it means brussels taking overall control of the country's national economic policy with coming up. raging at roadblocks angry serb protesters

clash with nato peacekeepers over barricades in northern cos of. egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak who was given a life sentence on saturdays but admitted to a prison hospital after reportedly suffering a heart attack while being taken from court however the life term acquittal of his two sons was considered too lenient by many triggering mass protests across the country with people demanding the death penalty for the deposed leader more than ten thousand gathered overnight in cairo and in famous city south of cairo an enraged mob attacked the headquarters of the presidential candidate and mubarak's last prime minister after mature feet when i was journalist bill drew was in tahrir square for r.t. . people at the moment really quite angry with the verdict by swimming hard 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 come out and also. the interior ministry's

a six police officers would not be were actually acquitted people started to realize that perhaps the verdict wasn't what they wanted so what we saw was actually much stock price here cross egypt where people basically came to the streets streaming angry about the fact that a lot of people are calling for a death sentence now so we still have several tens of thousands of people here on korea and across egypt really very angry barak's the families who is did actually lodge an appeal earlier seen as the verdict was really announced i mean that's one of the biggest fears the protesters are. fearing really is that you will ask me. if you step towards this. you know such a me and upstanding his life sentence this is why people are still on the streets basically people think believe that this is just him is transpiring. 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 here they want to see the death sentence they wanted his son to be put in prison at the same time in the background of the elections where the parks former prime minister which if he is actually considered to be one of the most of what makes the most popular candidates so people are really fearing is that this regime will never end the revolution is in fact not why. the muslim brotherhood candidate in egypt's presidential election mohammed most that if elected he would retry hosni mubarak along with several of his loyal officials some i found say a revolution activist in cairo says the brotherhood actively trying to use the route mubarak's trial to its advantage in the upcoming presidential runoff people took the street for different reasons and you have to acknowledge some revolutionary forces. because the thing. is is the rebuilding itself again. mubarak is about to be acquitted if the court ruling is contested before the

appellate court and this is this is expected by the way and others particularly muslim brotherhood wanted to portray their candidates in the presidential elections for the second. as a candidate of the egyptian revolution again this is the old regime again is barak and they're going to stroll through 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. time is running out for julian assange his legal team now is less than two weeks for a last ditch attempt to try to stop him being extradited to sweden britain supreme court ordered the wiki leaks founder be handed over to the sex crimes allegations santina supporters feel however that stockholm may eventually send him to the united states to face espionage charges over the mass leaking of sensitive and embarrassing american diplomatic cables sarah furthest cover story. the truth shall

set you free all. 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 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 to be an actual joy just for the purpose of questioning. 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 those 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 war crimes of united states they will face retribution and that's bad for democracy it's bad for human rights the case has been seen by many as a david and goliath style fight but the stanch taking on not just the legal system but the establishments that seek to silence him and wiki leaks and it's not just the government media that champion the songes of freedom of speech defender spectacularly turned on him in recent times. he didn't want to be a member of the club. and that was the problem 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 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. really a ritual. that should not be have. told me unnecessary but if he is disappointment among his supporters at the station and a real sense that this wasn't just a loss beginning a stunt and his legal team but a loss for the british justice system as well sir. london first place investigative journalist tony goldwyn believes that julian assange is exposing of many wrongs at the government level is being overlooked. welcome to the topsy turvy kingdom where we have people like tony blair who should be arranged for war crime crimes wandering the streets free and yet someone who's done more than anybody in the last fifty years or so to advance the cause of radical publishing is under

house arrest and possibly going to be even worse extradited and possibly end up in a jail in the united states i think ultimately we've got another year here again this has been going on and on for eighteen months now judy has been on 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 cable gate the 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 a member you can always watch every scientist interview shows and an arch of a variety dot com a website and during the latest installment during the sarge met various occupy

protests if you can catch a program. their first story of how a small movie became what is now really interesting watching coached online also there at our t.v. get a moment and was reporting about a violent clash between b. and that season and the nancy groups in hamburg led to more than seven hundred arrests we got pictures at r.t. dot com. on thursday ireland voted yes to the e.u. fiscal treaty by a margin of sixty forty critics say the plan will impose long term austerity and permanent loss of sovereignty from dublin to brussels over economic affairs artie's laura smith reports. 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 sinn fein leader gerry adams campaigned

vigorously against the treaty and is now island's most popular party leader as a result the government. during. we're converted to the notion that you can't cut your way. up to get people. back into work we've also argued against just banking. our resources as a result of the greed of private bankers. so we. hold to those commitments they'll need to unemployment up to fifteen percent welfare payments a cut public sector spending has been slashed everyone's feeling the pinch including publican jimmy killed near he's seen his turnover full by hauff as locals batten down the hatches we would have had to and five full time employees and four part

time we're now down to two full time two part time we had a restaurant upstairs which is now closed and that's another three full time jobs. possible income is it's a huge factor it's the discretionary spend that people have it you can see it throughout. the restaurant business 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 so when he leaves 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 growth to produce the jobs that are

required if i was 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 . 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 state that this would mean permanent austerity indians work to courts every year for at least a decade or more in order to meet the treaty targets and 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 dublin every paste is bristling with

referendum haste is the no post it's called the fiscal pact the bankers treaty the all steroids the 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 hearties. declan ganley founder of the liberty party campaign for a no vote and says europe needs to find an alternative to dumping huge debt on the irish people for massive bank losses they didn't cause. the chances of real a real return of vitality in the european economy i think is somewhat slim particularly in peripheral countries ireland for its part has an even bigger proportion of failed private bank debts that was social lives after it fell down the rest of the european union and we did that in two thousand and eight and two

thousand and ten in order to start to save the euro to prevent contagion from spreading so what needs to be done now is that europe needs to come up with a solution that either federalizes that debt and spread to the across all of the european union or that writes it off in some other form but to leave that stuck on the irish taxpayer money that our government never borrowed that cannot stand i call for serious moves to be made to create a. united states of europe constructed in a federal way from the bottom up that is to say that it is fully democratically accountable and solvent. on friday nato led peacekeepers deployed in northern coast of exchanged with angry protest is for demonstrators in two german allied soldiers wounded in the clashes local serbs tried to prevent troops from removing barricades they set up last year on the border with kosovo the roadblocks and rectitude response to an attempt by ethnic albanian authorities to impose border and customs controls serves in kosovo reject its two thousand and eight declaration of

independence from serbia political analyst exam to pathogen belgrade says the presence of foreign troops on the east is a trip. to 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 a 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 priest you know 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 heard 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 us are doing they're using the power vacuum in belgrade to try to to establish a new reality on the ground in kosovo. news headlines in brief now this lunchtime a u.s. drone attacks killed tends to speak to pakistan officials say four missiles were fired at a village near the afghan border on sunday morning the u.s. continues to launch drone attacks despite requests from islamabad to end all strikes in its territory. thousands of students of march through the streets of montreal in protest of proposed chewie shouldn't fee hikes it 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 began in the oven a dozen colleges and universities in quebec. to guard and now we're telling people

that are many of us 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 vehicle for crew aboard the jet escape with injuries they were taken to hospital so clear what caused the incident. sunday sports coming up in thirty minutes here in our two units got more on the latest goings on of the french open and serbia's newly elected president talks to us as well outlining the road ahead for his country now that he's at the helm my name is kevin i would thanks for choosing r.t. this sunday.

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