land of economic and eastern bloc now off you went afterwards to berlin on a whirlwind visit which lasted for only the day it was going to put in and german chancellor angela merkel 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 supporting regime. we have longstanding good relations with syria but we soon the conflict. and i agree with. both russian and german leaders seem to believe that the 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 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 to put in a meeting with the french president of course was the issue of missile defense now russia's russia is adamant that the plans for creation to optimise all 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 are

worried 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 could be. in the past we've often been promised who wouldn't expect then we were promised a new two wouldn't put military hardware in the russian 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 already in going 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 un human rights council resolution condemning the syrian government for the atrocity says the move jeopardizes kofi announced peace plan by blaming only one side before the results of the first occasion and well earlier qatar and saudi arabia pledged yet more aid to the rebels former british intelligence officers to cope says the syrian conflicts most likely driven by foreign terrorist groups. methodology type of killing or beheading slitting of throat slitting of throats of children two of the relation of bodies has been a characteristic not time 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 returning to syria iraq has 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 reportedly coming through neighboring lebanon but this deadly trades also a matter of faith too not just money if an ocean a report a seller shows off his goods. this is five thousand dollars and assist 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 talk in shut 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 her and they're ours and research 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 do you teach or support his co religious fighters in syria for sure. they do it. in sunni dominated north not been on where we meet the arms dealer those who want assad out in the absolute majority and they are sending their religious brothers in neighboring syria a lot more than prayers. a 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 after say members he's now having treatment in lebanon but his not stopped fighting entirely. syrian ex-pats everywhere in the world or people from britain who runs 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 a cellophane erotically sunni group whose influence in this part of lebanon is growing dramatically. there are demonstrations in favor of the syrian uprising a role so to 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 would be to make all the overthrow of the government we will make all the schools speak for against the. issues make them all up lies against us your government and other some of 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 syrians now to get rid of this regime shake muslim doesn't wear muslim white robes and keeps his beard secret to every selfie short so as not to draw too much attention he says everybody has something these days just to see their mission and assad for. syria completed. durational snotty reporting from northern lebanon. still. to stir take palin says yes to the you fiscal treaty in a referendum even though it means brussels taking overall control of the country's national economic policy would go to a vote 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 an 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 michel feet when i was journalist bill drew was in tahrir square for. people at the moment really quite angry with the verdict by some 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 are lying come out and also. the interior ministry say six police officers would not be where actually a court sits people started to realize that perhaps the verdict wasn't what they wanted so what we saw was actually

a much stock price here cross egypt where people basically came to the streets streaming angry about a lot of people calling for justice and now so we still have several tens of thousands of people here on korea and across egypt really very angry not barak's 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 ask me. basic steps towards. you know such a me and upstanding. life sentence this is why people stay on the streets basically people think believe that the dishes system is transpiring so they think that perhaps that part will be acquitted because that's what the regime the 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 mumbai or a ghetto like me they want to hear they want to see the death sentence they wanted

his sons to be put in prison at the same time in the background of elections where the far experiment prime minister machines is actually considered to be one of the most but when it makes the most popular candidate so people are really fearing is that this regime will never and that 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 road 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 the ministry because they think this 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 and so because the elections are for the second round. as a candidate of the egyptian revolution again this is the old regime again is more barak and again this also is a state establishment candidate in this race there's a muslim brotherhood this is trying to capitalize on what's going on for the sake of the presidential 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 a sex crimes allegations 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 or no it's the supporters were out in force this week

for julian assange 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 basic point to remember that julian hasn't been charged with any crime in any country and it really is extraordinary that someone's been extradited just 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 or 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 has been seen by many as a david and goliath style fight with 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 standards of freedom of speech defend a spectacularly turned on him in recent times. didn't want to be a member of the club. and that was the problem we can each produced in a matter of. revelation about the workings of. the workings of the world in many ways how the world is wrong and all the newspapers western world put together. the word jealousy comes. in effect the twist in the tale the songes legal team managed to get him an eleventh hour extradition stay if they fail this battle is likely to end up in the european

court of human rights it is being really a ritual. that should not be happy to tell you. whether she sticks appointments among his supporters at the station and a real sense that this wasn't just a loss in a stunt and his legal team but a loss for the british justice system as well sir that. 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. house arrest i think we should just take stop for a moment as the supreme court doesn't seem to have done a tour of some of the achievements of wiki leaks we had the collateral murder which was the video released twelve people being murdered from a helicopter including two reuters journalists we had on the show cable great diplomatic cables for one hundred fifty countries which was let's not forget credited with fueling and starting the arab spring no less now maybe i mean i just think it's possible that maybe this is one of the reasons why science is under attack essentially as a radical publisher doing the investigative journalism unfortunately the western media isn't. remember you can always watch every scientist interview shows at in our children r t v dot com our web site and during the latest installment julian assange various occupy protesters if you can catch the program he heard their firsthand story of how a small movement became what it is now really interesting watching coached online

also there at our t.v. get a moment german war reporting about a violent clash between me and nazis an anti 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 eight 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 worrell areas in favor and working class urban dwellers against sinn fein leader gerry adams campaigned vigorously against the treaty and is now islands most popular party leader as a result the government made a number of commitments during

a scrum. were converted to the notion that you can't cut your way out of a recession we've been arguing for a long time you have to get people off the dole queues and back into work we've also argued against its very unjust banking that's been imposed upon our resources as a result of the greed of private bankers some of them to do it was not so we would be holding. holding them to those too much 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 half as locals batten down the hatches. have had. five full time employees yeah for part time we're now down to two full time two part time we had a restaurant upstairs which is now closed that's 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 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 draws to produce the jobs that are required if i was to get out of this mess that it's thanks to the constitution the irish are the only european people who got to vote on the pact and all but two e.u.

member governments have already signed it the yes vote will give added power to an unpopular treaty france's new president francois hollande has talked about trying to renegotiate the pact and germany's angela merkel despite having written the treaty can't get her own parliament to ratify it richard boyd baratz of the united left alliance sees a bleak future because of all of the gambling debts and banks and speculators of import on to the books of the state and that this would mean permanent austerity billions worth of cults 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 troll. to ireland it seems more damaging austerity is up ahead here in doubt played every pastis bristling with referendum paste is the new post it's called the fiscal pact the bank has treaty the all stereotype pact but the yes campaign has won the day with its message of stability

. prepared to cede silver and tea in exchange for financial backup but even that's no guarantee been leakage yuri's they know it's made out to be. 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 a 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 island for its part has an even bigger proportion of failed private bank debts that was social life just after 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 europe needs to come up with

a solution that either federalizes that debt and spread to the cross all of the european union or writes it off in some other form but to leave that stark 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 and two german allied soldiers were wounded in the clashes local serbs tried to prevent troops from removing barricades they set up last year on the border with kosovo the road blocks from directed in response to an attempt by ethnic albanian authorities to impose border and customs controls serbs in kosovo rejected two thousand and eight declaration of independence from serbia political analyst alexander published in belgrade says the presence of foreign troops on 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 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 and how 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 we only have a technical government so actually what's nato and the e.u. and the u.s.

are doing they're using the power vacuum in belgrade to try to to establish a new reality on the ground in kosovo. 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 on its territory. thousands of students have marched 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 more than a dozen colleges and universities in quebec. to garner now where ten people are many of us have died after being hit by a cargo plane which crash landed at the country's main airport the plane overshot the runway and plowed into the packed vehicle four crew aboard the jet skate with

injuries they were taken to hospital it's not yet clear what caused the incident. coming up in thirty minutes here now to units more on the goings on of the french open and newly elected president talks to us as well outlining the road ahead for his country now that he's at the helm kevin allen thanks for choosing r t this sunday.

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the headlines from news review of the week president vladimir putin's rejected calls for military intervention in syria reiterating that the u.n. peace plan is the only way to prevent a full scale civil the comments were made this week during his first foreign tour of his new regional leaders of germany from some veterans set of the summit and some people. syria's president assad says his government had nothing to do with the houla massacre in which over one hundred people were killed last week at the u.n. all of his new best occasion to find out who is really responsible. big protests in egypt former president hosni mubarak begins a life sentence for his part in the deaths of hundreds of protesters during last year's resolution thousands rioted in cairo many angry that he's not to be executed

. and time is running out for julian a son with. his legal team to file a last ditch appeal after the supreme court ordered his extradition to sweden to sexual assault accusations he and his supporters fear it could eventually lead to him being handed over to the u.s. to face espionage charges over the leaking of american diplomatic cables. next as promised our interview with his newly elected president. in which he talks about the road ahead for his country as it faces economic difficulties and strives for the e.u. membership. wealthy british science. class.