so which brightened. from france to. start on t.v. dot com. moscow warns that the un human rights body which claims syrian leaders for the whole massacre puts the peace plan at risk because the investigation is still ongoing. while president putin reaffirms his stance on not taking sides during top level visits to paris and berlin ahead of meeting e.u. leaders on home soil. from palaces to prison egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak begins serving life for his part in killing protesters last year but thousands are enraged at what they see as a soft center. and the world's top whistleblower julie the sergeant loses his extradition appeal from britain to sweden on sex assault charges.

hello and welcome you watching the weekly here on r.t. our round up of the top stories of the last seven days with me kevin owen and first russia's warning that the u.n. human rights resolution condemning the syrian leadership for last week's houla massacre risks the railing the peace plan moscow called it premature because the investigation's ongoing and that it's therefore putting pressure on the security council where russia is resisting foreign military action on sunday president assad insisted his troops had nothing to do with the slaughter of more than one hundred people in the city he blamed armed rebel gangs for the attack and outside forces for instigating the conflict to trigger intervention washington which backs the syrian opposition and the push for regime change admits there are plans for military action let's get some thoughts on this and sharif. top political

journalists neil clark he's a contributor to britain's guardian newspaper is on the line from oxford via skype hi there thanks for being on the program but why do you think than a significant body like the un human rights council is already apportion blame before the results of international probe well i think it's very unfortunate i think this is due to western pressure because you think back seven days ago right from the very first time we heard about this massacre the lives of the us and britain was the syrian government was responsible for any evidence it had and i'm afraid that there's been a lot of pressure put on the of the u.n. h.c.r. this week and that's behind their statement which is a very helpful. position here is that it's saying that it believes these are attempts by several countries to use the who are trying to further their own interest undermine kofi annan peace plan what do you think about the statement i think is absolutely correct i think what we've got here on the agenda is pretty obvious to anyone who's been following this for the last fifteen months there's been an attempt by western powers backed by gold states to talk with the regime in

damascus and this reminds me and i'm sure to remind a lot of people too about what happened back in the late one nine hundred ninety s. yugoslavia a situation where the loss of the government there was under enormous pressure as well what we had then was western forces backing the rebels against that regime we had a massacre massacres taking place we should being used as a pretext for military intervention which is of course what we got in the nato bombardment of yugoslavia and twelve months ago we had exactly the same thing again with libya we had stories coming out of. america and britain with the forefront of saying look we've got to intervene which is what happened in the end of course so it's deja vu it's it's like ninety nine thousand nine hundred twenty one all over again so where from here of any lessons been learned of in syria's opposition military action washington is voicing its readiness to act it appears where do you see this calls for foreign intervention heading the next well i think it. the

crucial point of the whole affair now and i think that the onus must be on the western powers to sort of back down here because russia's made it quite clear that it wants that extra dimension they they were kind of libya and they don't want egypt to get in and the only way we can have a peaceful solution to this is if the western powers and countries like qatar saudi arabia rein in the rebels and say to them look stop this and stop supplying them with arms but all fortunately the stakes are so high it can't be because syria is what happens in series of enormous global importance because the west wants this regime to go they want a pro western regime that will come in that will be more pro israel will be anti arabian and that will prepare the way for attack on iran so the stakes are incredibly high here and unfortunately i don't see the west backing down i think unfortunately going to get more more. aggressive behavior from the west more backing the rebels and i'd like to see russia and china come out now and really take a much even firm a line on this and say look stop this there is

a political process in syria there's a new constitution we have elections in syria there's a democratic party and i think i'd like to see russia and china really say to the west stop stop stop your behavior you said this is reaching is that if a crunch point i mean the opposition wants the un envoy to his plans failed as. well you know at the moment you know let's face it the u.s. britain france saudi arabia qatar do not want to succeed it's the syrian government that wants it to see the russian china and we have to i think it was on friday kevin that the qatari prime minister said that perhaps a deadline for his plan to work is not helpful and what you know why is a plan working so far bringing peace because the rebels are still fighting this still using arms terrorist attacks are taking place in syria and one of the syrian government's response seems now evidence has come out of who were that you know last week we were told it was a syrian government now the evidence is not so clear present as sad today in damascus denied any involvement in that he said it was a whole. crime so you know it's not related to the people who are backing the

violent rebels to rein them in final pre-fight on conflict spill one of a better word of the violence has been spreading beyond syria into neighboring lebanon as we've been reporting what are the wider consequences if this gets worse . well i mean we could be any towards a major. less the west changes its policy and we you know the west is playing a very dangerous game here syria was a country at peace fifteen sixteen months ago there were peaceful protests we got democratic reform in syria so there's no real need for people to be using violence and what the west is doing is criminal what western saudi arabia qatar and other countries were taking this on israel too has been supporting regime change what these countries it is criminal because we could have a major war happening here ok folks who thought politics sure there's no plot there on the line from the u.k. and you. just mentioned violence from syria spread across the border with at least thirteen people killed and dozens injured in recent clashes between pro and anti

assad supporters lebanon the country's also said to be one of the major arms hubs for the rebels fighting against the regime in neighboring syria but this deadly weapons flows also a matter of faith not just money as artist maria financial found out. as seller shows off his goods. this is five thousand dollars thirteen hundred eighteen hundred and two thousand the seven machine guns between two and a half and three thousand euros parks' chardy not his real name also has rocket propelled and hand grenades which he showed me in private. 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 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 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 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 north never known where we meet the arms dealer those who want assad out are in the absolute majority and they are sending their villages 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 saudi arabia also send us money weapons walkie talkies. borders and 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 sellafield a radical sunni group whose influence in this part of lebanon is growing dramatically. there demonstrations in favor of the syrian uprising a role so part of the support package every five pounds. we also made some offish 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

send in the rebels the ideas and encouragement to achieve the ultimate goal would be to make a call to overthrow the government would make all the scholars speak for against these issues and make them all applies i guess the government and other some a fish a can triple he 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. already helped the tunisian and egyptian revolution we want to get rid of this regime. shake marzan doesn't wear muslim white robes and keeps his beard secret every sellafield short so as not to draw too much attention he says everybody sacrifices something these days just to see their mission and i saw. the syria completed. an r.t. reporting from northern lebanon i follow toplevel tour of europe president putin

this week patience to let the kofi annan plan come into effect in syria he was speaking at a meeting with european leaders in some petersburg which kicks off later sunday and i've got a lot to discuss too as r.t. is really good explains. wasn't putting his first stop was in minsk which many saw as an indication that that russia's foreign policy now will focus more on its closest neighbors and the c.i.s. countries many observers also saw this visit as the beginning of the suppose that the plan of economic and eastern bloc now off he went afterwards to berlin on a whirlwind visit which lasted for only half with a date 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

a loss to which of course their action president prepared a response. but russia is unilaterally supporting the assad regime a room we have longstanding good relations with syria but any soon to the conflict which is i agree with. that outcome an objective. both russian and german leaders seem to believe that coffee on speed splenda should be seen to progress to excess fully at the moment it does seem like it's hamstrung 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 putting 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 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 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 written guarantees that this missile shield will not be used against russia. in the past we've often been promised that newser wouldn't expand then we were promised that nato wouldn't put military hardware near russia but we've seen it 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 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. thousands of egypt venting their anger over what they say is a lenient sentence for the former president hosni mubarak jailed for life over the killing of eight hundred fifty protesters during last year's uprising crowds gathered in tahrir square demanding a retrial and the death sentence for the ouster of president they're also furious that the barracks two sons and several security officials have been acquitted and rage mobs attacked the offices of presidential candidate and mubarak's last prime minister after much of preaching to egyptian towns freelance journalist jill drew

reporting from tahrir square for. people at the moment are really quite angry with the verdict first when they heard about barak was given twenty five years of life sentence they were euphoric because people busy making would just be done for corruption charges now. they realized that his sons are also the interior ministry's they were actually acquitted so people started to realize that perhaps the verdict wasn't what they wanted so what we saw was actually a mass on pricing of us egypt where people basically kings the streets were streaming angry about the right a lot of people calling for justice and now the pirates the funny story is did such a large an appeal earlier as soon as the verdict was ready announced i mean that's one of the biggest fears the protesters are. fearing really is that he will last me . he could step to his heels i'm not actually end up serving his life sentence this is why people are still on the streets basically people to believe that they do

system is transparent so they think that perhaps that barak will be acquitted because that's what the regime the old regime which 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 in the background of the elections where the barak's former prime minister which defeats is actually considered to be one of the most popular candidates so people are really fearing is that this regime will never end the revolution is in fact it's not worth. coming up at r.t. stability versus sovereignty the irish people vote yes to more cuts from brussels but with fears that more decisions are being taken out of violence it's been reported. nato led peacekeepers use live rounds on serb protesters as kosovo's volatile north slips into violence again. the wiki leaks chief today the son lost his appeal against extradition from the u.k.

to sweden where he's wanted on sexual assault charges britain's supreme court ruled on wednesday that is arrest warrant was lawful and songes teams now been given fourteen days to appeal the decision which the world's top whistleblower says is politically motivated well to sarah first reports from london. 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 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 over potential whistleblowers 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 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 sound is a 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. more revelation about the workings of democratic of

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 tales. 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 have. to agree on this issue although she is disappointment among his supporters at the decision and a real sense that this wasn't just the last beginning in a stange and his legal team but a loss for the british justice system as well sir arthur london well while under house arrest in britain julie resizes continue to film his talk show that airs again next year on our next tuesday hoping catch that and if you didn't catch the

previous episodes as well the been a good watch they're also streaming on a web site r.t. dot com. now the big story in the week the irish people said yes to more. nationwide referendum supporters say this will ensure stability and more rescue cash but the critics fear the country said to lose the power to make its own decisions what is laura smith explains but more ireland 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 ireland's most popular party leader as a result the government real number of commitments during this campaign. 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 that's been imposed. 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 two and five full time employees and four part time we're now down to two full time to part time we had a restaurant upstairs which is now closed that's another three full time jobs. possible income. 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 big condom is tightly bound to the eurozone 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 u.s.

will give out his 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 barrett of the united left alliance sees a bleak future because of all of the gambling debts and banks and speculators have been put on to the books of the state that this would mean permanent austerity indians work of course 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 paste is bristling with referendum posters they know posters call the fiscal pact the bankers treaty the all stare it's a pact but the yes campaign has won the day with its message of stability in itself 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. to entertain and interest you i'm sure like this how to join in with america's ninety nine percent very own occupy facebook lets you do just that you can campaign. that without leaving your p.c. if that makes sense you see the designs up for prestigious design of the whole thing you can take a look. also facebook as well as i just said also catch me if you can the saudi princess in the story but if you try to parent me to flee a five star hotel in paris with several billion dollar bills from stock buy stuff read faces or not the first time we that we're here for the royal. as we report online with our t v dot com. here nor in kosovo clashes between

serbian protesters and nato led peacekeepers have left at least six people wounded local serbs tried to prevent troops from removing barricades they set up last year on the border with kosovo those roadblocks were in response to an attempt by ethnic albanian authorities to impose border and customs controls nato troops use tear gas and small arms on protesters who responded with stones and hand gun fire service in kosovo rejects the area's two thousand and eight declaration of independence from serbian political analyst alexander passage in belgrade says the presence of foreign troops on the stairs 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 they've actually for fired live ammunition at people trying to keep the barricades and they're trying to keep the barricades to prevent the close of all baiting regime from priest or not to get a hold of the north northern part of the territory 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 they're in 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 with just parliamentary and presidential elections but we do not have a functioning government we only have a technical government so and 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. so obviously the president was sworn in on thursday shortly before his inauguration he shared his thoughts with us on the situation in kosovo north of the other challenges facing the right now you can hear more about that in just over an hour on this channel now bringing you some of today's world news a killed at least three people and left over thirty others injured in the north of

nigeria witnesses say a suicide attack of forced his car through a checkpoint and drove it into a church there's no immediate claim of responsibility although churches are often the targets of sectarian attacks carried out by the radical islamist group. ten passengers in the minibus have died after being hit by a cargo plane crash landed it garners main airport the jet overshot the runway and plowed into the packed vehicle full crew on board the plane escaped with injuries though taken to hospital investigations not to be carried out to try to establish the cause. simple but wrong. miserable weather failed to stop student protesters from turning out in the thousands once again in montreal told to leave this week with the canadian government failed to reach a deal on the controversial rise in tuition fees the quebec demos began back in february than they escalated last month when an emergency anti protest bill was passed over two and a half thousand people have been arrested since those money started. shortly a report for you into the american military's use of highly toxic chemicals in

vietnam and the legacy to this day of those attacks my name's kevin only watching on news roundup of the week here on r.t. and headlines are coming up next just two minutes away in fact. i had a family i lived in a fairly nice community wasn't which was an upscale it was just like you know

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