sarah marusek from america's serach university believes the u.s. never actually backed the peace initiative. everybody in washington wants regime change everybody in europe and as well as the gulf countries and so i'm on plan was always condemned from the very start they never gave it a chance they never worked or did anything to try to see to its realisation they never ever put any pressure on their so-called friends in the syrian opposition and instead in fact arm to the syrian opposition and increase the violence and increase the bloodshed so it is quite rich now that they will without any evidence at all and while an investigation is ongoing automatically condemn the syrian government poor what is a war this is a civil war you know the the western reaction and provocation of everything that's going on in syria is just the same old story over and over again they will not stop until they have regime change and so they do not want peace they do not want pm on plan to succeed and we know that foreign fighters are going in not only weapons

from the goal facilitated by the west but also foreign fighters are growing and sticking we know that here in lebanon there are fighters being trained in the north and they go across the border frequently to stir up trouble and to create more antagonism between sunni and the other way community and it's just a tragedy that's unfolding and the syrian people are the ones who are suffering. clashes in lebanon between pro and anti also its supporters have killed at least thirteen this weekend and injured dozens of others the country is also thought to be a major arms for the syrian rebels but the deadly weapons flow is also a matter of faith as well as money from the. as seller shows off his goods. this is five thousand dollars this is 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 rocket propelled and hand grenades which he

showed me in private people come contact me every day we have a revolution next door. we talking shop his garage in tripoli lebanon syrian rebels are his major clients are very popular but recently they're looking for really have the stuff we buy from her and they're ours and research they have a nerve and they're getting it for free as a run makes their entire story. it'll take no more than ten hours for this shot he says to reach lebanon's conflict in the 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 ends for the weapons dealers but money's not the key reason shaadi is a sunni muslim and to him it's his holy duty to support his co religious fighters

in syria for sure we. will help them topple assad till they do it. in sunni dominated snow phenomenon 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 experts everywhere in the world or people from britain saudi arabia also send his money by 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 to support package everything sounds. we also made some of fish a calmer bakley one of the founders of the banned islamic group. suspected of links to international terrorism cases his input in the syrian revolt in send in the rebels the ideas and encouragement to achieve the ultimate goal what would be to make all the overthrow of the government would make all the squabbles speak for against the. issues and make them all applies again to see a government and other selfish a can triple the runs this car parts shop he confirms that every sunni and especially every salafist here in lebanon is involved either ideologically or financially in what he calls syrian liberation. already helped the tunisian and egyptian revolution we want syrians now 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 sequitur feiss something these days just to see their mission and assad for. syria completed. reporting from northern lebanon. on a top level tour of europe president putin this week urged patience to let the kofi annan peace plan come into a fact in syria he was speaking ahead of the meeting with top e.u. officials who have now arrived in st petersburg and i've got a lot to discuss as a renegotiate the explained. but you have put 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 of the c.i.s. countries many observers also saw this visit as the beginning of the suppose that

the land of economic and eastern bloc now off you went after words to berlin on a whirlwind visit which lasted for only half the 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 you lose usually russia is unilaterally supportive you said regime . we have longstanding good relations with syria but we soon to be conflict if it's rich and i agree with. that our common objective is to do. both russian and german leaders a seem to believe that the coffee on speed planet 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 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 meeting with the french president of course was the issue of missile defense now russia's russia's out i'm a. the plans for creation of the missile defense shield in eastern europe a plan much hailed by nato and the united states as being very much needed by countries to counteract 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 would be surely. in the past we've often been promised to do so 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 help out is to engage in dialogue it is natural that all of these issues of course will crop up during the e.u. summit in st petersburg and although we've 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 is serving life over the killing of eight hundred fifty protesters during last year's uprising there are also furious that mubarak's two sons and several security officials have been acquitted parties tom barton is in car. hundreds of protesters occupying terrorists where behind me more reporting into the square large demonstrations have also been called for later in the day this all started yesterday initially with joy about the life sentence that was given to 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 and the verdict has given the police the green lights to do whatever the one because they knew they wouldn't be punished people and those who killed their children to get life sentences and hosni mubarak i'm his interior minister should

be executed. killed out this verdict humiliate a year and a half of the revolution those who ruined this country escaped justice at the expense of mubarak we know they're going to appeal the verdict that's what people should unite to prevent and not mohamed morsi the muslim brotherhood candidate in the upcoming second round of the presidential election said that the revolution that 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 he's going to appeal the acquittals of those top security officials people here who are really focused on yesterday's verdicts and they're said that that is the sign that the military that the old regime may still in power which is the other candidate in the election he is

mubarak's last prime minister a former general he has had offices of his both in the capital and in other towns. and people say that they really want doubting whether a second round in the election should go ahead after a chance because you 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 future demonstrations planned in the coming week including a million man march through the capital. now here in 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 are those have. sounds. the wiki leaks chief julian us launch lost his appeal against extradition from the u.k. to sweden this week where he's wanted on sexual assault charges britain's supreme court ruled on wednesday that his arrest warrant was lawful a sundress team was

given a fourteen days to appeal the decision which the world's top whistleblower says is politically motivated sara firth reports from london. the truth shall set you free all know the supporters were out in full six weeks for julian assange tearing his appeal was rejected and spit 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 remember that julian hasn't been charged with any crime in any country it really is extraordinary so much pain actually joy it 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 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 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 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 or when used by

western world put together. to work jealousy comes. in a further twenty. in the tail songes legal team managed to get him an eleventh hour extradition stay if they fail this passes likely to end up in the european court of human rights it is being really a ritual. that should not be have. told me on this issue whether she is disappointment among his equalities at the decision and a real sense that this wasn't just the last beginning a son joined his legal team but a loss for the british justice system as well sara. london well under house arrest in britain julian assange has our son has found his talk show that next airs on our this tuesday to forget you can also catch up on previous episodes at r.t. dot com. now the irish people have said yes to more u.s.

attorney this week in a nationwide referendum supporters say this will ensure stability and more rescue cash while critics fear the country will lose the power to make its own decisions ours is laura smith explains. 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 in rural areas in favor of working class. 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 this campaign and. were converted to the notion that you can 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 brought them to work we've also argued against its very own just banking and that's been imposed on our

resources as a result of the greed of private bankers top of that some of them to do without so we would be holding them holding them to the. 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 by hauff as locals batten down the hatches we would have had. five full time employees. for part time to full time. to part time we had a restaurant upstairs which is. a full time job. it's a huge factor it's the discretionary spend that people have. you can see a lot of. people are very very very careful on how they spend their money to pay the economies tightly balance 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 arlan spends its money on healy of social justice island says it's a badly written treaty that will do what it's meant to do what we're looking at no is a limiting limitation being imposed by this treaty which we believe quite strongly means that we cannot put in the investment levels of the scale that's required to actually generate the growth 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 yes vote will give adage 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 it. 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 billions worth of cults 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 and doubt played every pastis bristling with referendum paste is no post it's called the fiscal pact the bankers treaty the all stereotypes act 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 to believe you raised a notoriously hard to help lead. now

a day after laying out details of the pentagon's new asia pacific strategy u.s. defense secretary leon panetta visited vietnam on saturday he said the majority of america's warships will be deployed in the area by twenty twenty let's discuss that now with american radio host and author stephen leatherman he joins us via broadband from chicago stephen and that is visit to vietnam is likely to irritate china which is unhappy with any u.s. build up in the region does the u.s. fear it's losing its dominance globally. where we're used to here is impossible to maintain its star going to school globally and he said. months maybe a year ago you know the time goes by so fast. speech he said that america will increase its presence in two so the world middle east was there to be continue. to be forward for what they're for because of the middle east to say to

a leader in the other part of the world in. east asia previous r.t. interview. i said that north korea is the punching bag china is the target china knows it just the way russia knows they're being encircled with us bases in america's missile shield it is nothing to do with a rear end it is everything to do with russia and america it was the established basing rights already has them by numerous countries in central asia japan of course and south korea longstanding there's a great battle going on in south korea you know but with the government with the people who you are and what historic slices with people have gone up against the government building a base for aegis attack. destroyers of cruise. well attack ships with nuclear weapons china goes there's china with believes that the

south china sea is is what it is america wants to come in and usurp them and i'll let you jump in and isa but just imagine what if china or russia already you know a country what it is fully of america's east the west coast for the congress there would probably be an air of war but i want to jump in and mention of course that it's very clear that the us is trying to ally itself with other countries there in terms of trying to enforce those countries' maritime rights like you said china beijing largely claims a lot of that area there how risky is it for those nations to side with the us and possibly lose china as a key ally. it's amazing it really is amazing to have said oh here with another guess well in my own program which you have a nice experience there wouldn't it be wonderful speaking of japan it would be wonderful one day if you can one day grew up and stop acting like

a child it's been since world war two since one thousand forty five america has basing rights they have was since he is practically a pace japanese policy it's the same in south korea why don't these countries grow up and act like adults instead of children but look at vietnam they never shows up on her own baby but thirty seven thirty seven years ago america away asked you a humiliating exit from the rooftop of saigon the end of embassy in april nineteenth seventy five they decimated become treaty the people of vietnam still suffer from that war and the vietnamese want to cooperate with america. but it looks like they'll do it say help or australia south korea the philippines taiwan i did it goes on and on these countries are allying with america china is a country they should be closer to why on earth of a want to get in between

a tug of war between nations that have no business being belligerent to one another at the same time i will say this i can't imagine that america wants a war with china or russia but they have been very extremist people in america over the years going back since the end of wood two and i still remember curtis le may for if i did go advocating balmy nuking russia even at the expense of losing three or four us cities he called it a crisis worth a safe we have leaders around lake jack and the whole wanted nothing to do with lunatics like this not so sure america has lead us right there today. all right steve. in london live with us on the line from chicago via broadband thank you stephen for your analysis. now bringing you some of today's world news a passenger plane has crashed into a two story building in nigeria's largest city at least one hundred forty people

were on board the m d eighty three donna air jet it's unlikely there are any survivors but it came down in a neighborhood near lagos airport an earlier another nigerian plane overshot a runway in ghana and plowed into a bus ten people in that vehicle were killed but all four people on the cargo jet survived. miserable weather has failed to stop student protesters from turning out in their thousands once again in montreal talks earlier this week with the canadian government failed to reach a deal on the controversial rise in tuition fees the quebec demos began in february and escalated last month when an emergency anti protest vote was passed over two and a half thousand people have been arrested since rallies began. britain's been marking queen elizabeth's diamond jubilee with the biggest river pageant in three hundred fifty years the flotilla of a thousand boats of all shapes and sizes sowed down the thames on sunday its flag

waving crowds lining the river banks in london despite the cold and rain not everyone was in a sober tory mood though and if you boil list use the event to call time on the monarchy and for britain to become a republic. and r.t. dot com how do you join in america's hardpressed with arse that should say how to join in with america's hard pressed ninety nine percent r g has its very own occupy alp on facebook that lets you do just that you can camp out and campaign without leaving your p.c. and it's up for a prestigious design award to take a look online. and catch me if you can the saudi princess who tried to flee of five star hotel in paris without paying her several million dollar bills. but was stopped by staff it's not the first time for the voile brackets here either as we report at r t v dot com. shortly we step inside one of the major buddhist temples in russia that's after

a recap of our top stories. my parents really truly honestly believe that what had happened was as a result of my father's exposure to agent orange i was born with multiple problems . i was missing my leg and my fingers and my big toe on

my right foot i use my hands a lot in my artwork i find myself drawing my hands quite a bit to me for my hands you know just as if anyone would. but they do tell a story they tell us story of. the

week's top stories here on archie moscow warns that the un human rights body is putting the syrian peace plan at risk by blaming the regime which accuses armed rebel gangs for the who the massacre russia believes the condemnation is premature because the investigation still ongoing and puts pressure on the security council. but president putin's reaffirmed his stance on not taking sides during toplevel visits to paris and berlin he was speaking ahead of a meeting with top brass which has launched in st petersburg. 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 by what they

see as a soft sentence. in the world's top was still blower loses his axe to dish an appeal from britain to sweden on sex assault charges julie massages legal team has fourteen days to appeal the. decision which they believe is politically motivated next the story of two young russians who found their way in life after turning to buddhism we visit a temple which many worshippers believe to be a place of miracles. in eastern siberia two buddhists. discovered a miracle buried under the ground today it can be found in the major buddhist temple of russia give against you that so. different people see him in different ways some think that he is looking at them to me it seemed that his eyes were half open.