the lives of the u.s. and great was the syrian government was responsible for any evidence of it and i'm afraid that there's been a lot of pressure put on the h.c.r. this week and that's behind their statement which isn't very helpful at all the u.s. britain france saudi or think i do not want to succeed it's the syrian government wanted to see the russia and china for the last fifteen months it'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 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 massacres so-called 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 but we had the stories coming out of libya america and britain with the

forefront of saying look we've got to intervene which is what happened in the end of course i said it's deja vu it's like one thousand nine hundred twenty eleven all over again meanwhile 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 in lebanon that 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 almost a matter of faith not just money as artie's way of. selling 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 u.s. sparks shaadi not his real name also has a 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 really have the stuff we buy from her and their hours and research they have a nerve and they're getting it for free and as a run makes their entire story. it'll take no more than ten hours for this shoddy size 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 is for the weapons dealers but money's not the key reason shoddy 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 snow phenomenon where we meet the arms dealer those who want assad

out 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 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 experts everywhere in the world or people from britain france saudi arabia also send his money weapons walkie talkies. he says every day tons of this aid to 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 part of the support package everything sounds. 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 and 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 all the overthrow of the government we will make all the scholars speak for. issues make them all up lies against the c.i. government and other such a fish a can tripoli 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 helped the tunisian and egyptian revolutions we want syrians now to get rid of this regime. shake marzan doesn't wear muslim white robes and keeps his beard secret to every cellophane shot so as

not to draw too much attention he says everybody sacrifices something these days just to see their mission and assad for. the syria completed. narration optionality reporting from northern lebanon. on a top level tour of europe president putin this week patience to let the kofi annan plan come into effect in syria he was speaking out of a meeting with european leaders and petersburg which kicks off later this sunday and i've got a lot to discuss to is a ridiculous carex playing. wasn't putting his first stop was in minsk which many saw as an indication that russia's foreign policy now will focus more on the closest neighbors and the c.i.s. countries many observers also saw this visit as the beginning of the suppose that the plan of economic and eastern bloc now off you went out their words to berlin on a whirlwind visit which lasted for only half the date was going to put an end 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 their action president prepared a response. but you lose usually russia is unilaterally supporting the regime. we have longstanding good relations with syria but we soon to be conflict. and agree with. that our common objective is to do. both russian and german leaders seem to believe that the coffee on speace planet should be seen to progress to excess fully at the moment it does seem like a strong a by the seemingly unstoppable of fighting on all sides in syria now of course and not all leaders in europe seem to agree with the french president francois long 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 puttin on his last leg of the european tour which took him to paris now of course there is no agreement on the issue of syria among the european leaders among other issues which were also discussed or mentioned to put into meeting with the french president of course was the issue of defense now russia's russia's adamant. that 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 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 could be shelling. in the past we've often

been promised good news 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 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 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 in egypt have been venting their anger over what they say is a lenient sentence for the former president hosni mubarak serving life over the killing of eight hundred fifty protesters during last year's uprising they're also furious them

a barracks two sons and several security officials have been acquitted let's get some some of this from our correspondent tom he's live for us in tahrir square hi tom people refusing to leave the square behind you one of the calling for today. hundreds of protesters occupying terrorists where behind me more of pouring into the square larger demonstrations have also been called for later in the day this all started yesterday initially with joy the life sentence that was given. former president hosni mubarak but then turned to anger as a number of security officials in his administration were acquitted of any involvement in the deaths of hundreds of protesters in egypt's revolution last year people here simply say that the set the sentences and the verdicts are too lenient . the verdict has given the police the green lights to do whatever they want because they knew they wouldn't be punished hosni mubarak is almost eight anyway

what's the point of this verdict he want those who killed their children to get life sentences and hosni mubarak and his interior minister should be executed. doubt this verdict humiliate a year and a half after the revolution those who ruined this country escaped justice at the expense of mubarak and his interior minister we know they're going to appeal the verdict people should unite to prevent. mohamed morsi the muslim brotherhood's candidate in the upcoming second round of the presidential election toward the camp yesterday and he said that the revolution the started last year in egypt should continue and that if he was elected president he would make sure at least try to get mubarak back on trial and have him executed the top prosecutor in egypt has also said that he's going to try and appeal the

acquittals of those top security officials and this all was set amongst the backdrop of protests both here and rallies in towns and cities across the country tom you just mentioned there the second run this forthcoming presidential election just a fortnight away now while people on the street saying after what's happened in the twenty min the last twenty four hours really say about the choices they have now given the barack sentence. well they really focused on the yesterday's bird. no said that that is the sign that the military here that the old regime is still in power and that they are very worried about those upcoming elections chuff week is the other candidate in the election he is mubarak's last prime minister a former general and people say that they are very nervous about him the other candidates he has had offices of his both in the capital and in other towns raided

and people say that they were doubting whether a second round in the election should go ahead because of this fear that the military regime is still in control after chesapeake has said that he wouldn't reinstate the old regime but he's going to have a lot of convincing to do to try and make people believe. in this upcoming election it's really seen the fear is that regime is still in control and that has led to all these demonstrations future demonstrations planned in the coming week including a million man march through the capital to live in cairo first said today was one there behind you in tahrir square. coming up out see stability versus sovereignty the irish people vote yes to more cuts from brussels but with fears that more decisions are being taken out of our lives hands we got a story about that for you and. nato led peacekeepers use live rounds on protesters

as kosovo's volatile north slips into violence again. the wiki leaks chief julius sons lost his appeal against extradition from the u.k. to sweden where he's wanted on sexual assault charges britain supreme court ruled on wednesday that his arrest warrant was lawful the son just he was now been given fourteen days to appeal the decision which the world's top whistleblower says is politically motivated first reports from london. the truth shall say even. all. 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 on the brink of deportation to sweden to answer questions about sexual assault accusations he's say a trumped up basic point you're a member of the jury and hasn't been charged with any crime in any country and it really is extraordinary that so much pain actual joy just a 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 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 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 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 and all the news 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. a 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 whether she is disappointment among his supporters at the decision and a real sense that this wasn't just the last beginning a staunch and his legal team but a loss for the british justice if them as well sir. london well while under

arrest in britain julia sons continue to film is talk show that is again this choose day the next edition of the gate also catch all the previous episodes as well on our website our dot com stream and whenever you want to catch up with them again for. the irish people in a big story this last week said yes to more stare at sea in a nationwide referendum supporters say this is set therefore to ensure stability and more rescue cash but critics fear the country is now said to lose the power to make its own decisions artie's laura smith explains. ireland says yes to writing european austerity into law and ceding more so pretty 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 islands most popular party leader as

a result the government made a number of commitments during the scrum. were converted to the notion that you can cut your way out of a recession we've been organ for a long time you have to get people off the dole queues and back into work we've also argued against it's very unjust banking that's been imposed upon our resources as a result of the greed of private bankers from of them to do it was not so we would be holding holding them to those commitments they'll need to unemployments 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 by hauff as locals batten down the hatches. and five full time employee. for part time to full time to part time we had a restaurant upstairs which is. it's

a huge factor it's the question people have. you can feel. very very very careful on how they spend their money today economies tightly bound to the euro zone three bank loans and bailouts the treaty binds budget treat policy even tighter so that brussels will have a say over how arlan spends its money on healy of social justice ireland says it's a badly written treaty that will do what it's meant to do what we're looking at no . limitation being imposed by this treaty which we believe quite strongly that we cannot put in the investment. that's required actually generated to produce the jobs that are required 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 u.s. 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. banks and speculators have been put onto the books of the state that this would mean permanent austerity binion's worth of cults every year for at least a decade or more in order to meet the treaty targets and 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 doubt blame every taste is bristling with referendum haste is there no post it's called the fiscal pact the bankers

treaty the us terrorists the pact but the yes campaign has won the day with its message of stability ireland saying itself prepared to cede silver and sea in exchange for financial backup but even that's no guarantee believe get your raise they know it's me hearties. just check it out see the old com a website a few things they might be interested in you can join in with america's hard pressed ninety nine percent we've got our very own occupied facebook to let you do just that there's more about it online at r.t. dot com you could camp out and campaign with leaving your p.c. instead it is well it's for a prestigious design award to see one take a close look clever. i catch me if you can the story of the saudi princess who tried to flee this five star hotel in paris with. several million dollar bill but she was stopped by stuff red faced is not the first time either we hear the royal racketeers been outed as we report on. you know the

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 and set up last year on the board of the cost of those road blocks were in response to an attempt by i think albanian authorities to impose boardroom customs controls nato troops used tear gas and small arms on protesters who responded with stones and hand. the serbs in kosovo rejects the area's two thousand and eight declaration of independence from serbia political analyst. xander 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 profiled 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 trieste or not to

get a hold of the north northern part of the territory so 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 of vacuum in belgrade to try to to establish a new reality on the ground in kosovo and serbia new president was sworn in on first day shortly before his inauguration he shared his thoughts with us about the situation in kosovo is north of the other challenges facing right now you can hear more about that is that in just a few minutes we've got the full interview donati coming up shortly. the u.s.

and south korea have been accused of conducting secret missions to spy on north korea's nuclear facilities has come from a media report claiming special troops a big parachuted into the country at what's a sensitive time between washington and pyongyang america denies the allegations but the article's author stands by his sources. at present both the pentagon and the lower level command whose general i i heard speaking have both admitted that i did not fabricate the story earlier they had both said i fabricated the story he spoke in the present tense and it was not clear that he was speaking hypothetically not clear at all and it was actually quite apparent he was speaking in sort of the present and literal sense of north korea tends to take a few days to process news reports like this before formulating some kind of response whether that response be an official statement or some sort of military

posturing or something so i expect based on what experts are telling me that we'll have to wait to see what the official response will be i hope it's nothing i hope the general is telling the truth when he says he was speaking hypothetically i regret that this thing got out of hand. around the world to brief. top stories of car bombs killed at least eight people and left over thirty others injured in the north of nigeria witnesses say a suicide attacker 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 boko haram. ten passengers in this mini bus died after the hit by a cargo plane which crushed under the gun as main airport jet overshot the runway and plowed into a parked vehicle full crew on board the plane a spate of injuries are taking investigations to be carried out into. that accident

. miserable weather's failed to stop student protesters from turning out in the thousands once again in montreal as you can see here talks earlier this week with the canadian government failed to reach a deal on the controversial rise in tuition fees the demos began in february yes collated last month when an emergency anti protest of all this passed over two and a half. thousand people have been arrested since the rally started. bad weather lisa was but only one hasn't stopped people turning out in britain to mark queen elizabeth's diamond jubilee with the biggest river pageant since three hundred fifty years on the way at the moment to tell of a thousand boats of all shapes and sizes are out on the thames with flag waving crowds lining the river banks in london despite the cold and rain earlier on people making the best of it in true british spirit of the floating procession will be interspersed with ten musical barges carrying choirs an orchestra is safety and security of course paramount there five thousand five hundred police seven thousand private stewards on duty and about thirty thousand people have heard this security

check so nothing left to chance their big screen this place along the river thames route the two ticket only friendly family festivals are also happening at the moment in hyde park in battersea park a big show there on the river thames a big event of course very best wishes to queen elizabeth. let's talk sport got the sunday sport within the next thirty minutes including the latest action from the french open also coming up in the next two serbia's newly elected president talks to us as a mention about his plans for the country now he's in charge my name's kevin thank you for choosing r.t. live from moscow this sunday.

this is the news review of the week with me kevin zero in the top stories moscow warns of the un human rights bodies putting the peace plan at risk by blaming the regime which accuses gangs for the attack russia believes the condemnation is premature because the investigation is still ongoing and is putting pressure on the security council. all this while president putin's reaffirmed his stance on not taking sides during top level visits to paris and berlin he was speaking ahead of a meeting with european leaders and simply which kicks off later today. egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak begin serving life for his part in killing eight hundred fifty protesters during last year's uprising but thousands are enraged at what they see as a soft sentence. and the world's top whistleblower loses his extradition appeal

from britain to sweden on sex assault charges. legal team has fourteen days to appeal the decision which they believe is politically motivated. next our interview with serbia's newly elected president thomas love when he talks about the road ahead for his country as he sees it as he faces economic difficulties there the country also strives for e.u. membership. that's why this mr president thank you very much for giving your time for this interview the international media see you as a nationalist and a right wing however you based your election campaign on good relations with the european union that is that they are absolutely right i am a nationalist but i'm a democrat as well and as far as european values go we will respect them because of our constitution the constitution the cost to meet certain.