from america syracuse university believes the u.s. never truly backed the peace initiative. everybody in washington wants regime change everybody in europe and as well as the gulf countries and so but i 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 harm to the syrian opposition and increase the violence and increase the bloodshed so it's quite rich now that they will without any evidence at all and while an investigation is ongoing automatically condemn the syrian government for 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 gulf facilitated by the west but also foreign fighters are growing and sticking. here in lebanon they 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 over the weekend and injured dozens of others countries also thought to be a major arms hub for the syrian rebels but the deadly weapons for it was also a matter of faith as well as money as. ports. a seller shows off his goods. this is five thousand dollars 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 in 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 really have the staff we buy from has and their allies and research they have a nerve and they're getting it for free as iran makes their entire story. it'll take no more than ten hours for this shot he says to reach lebanon's conflict and gulf to neighbor since the beginning of the uprising in syria last march arms prices have rocketed for some items 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 is not the key reason shaadi is a sunni muslim and to him it's his holy do you t. to support his co religious fighters in syria for sure we are with them will help

them topple assad they do it in a sunni dominated snowflake been on where we meet the arms dealer those who want assad out are in the absolute majority and they are sending their religious brothers in neighboring syria a lot more than prayers. a mad twenty nine year old field commander from the free syrian army was wounded during the baba amr a siege earlier this spring together with other injured f.s.a. members he's now having treatment in lebanon but his not stopped fighting entirely . we have support from syrian ex-pats everywhere in the world people from britain with france saudi arabia also send us money we buy weapons walkie talkies satellites in the syrian borders 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 sellafield 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 of fish a calmer 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 their ultimate goal would be to make all the overthrow of the government we will make all the schools speak for against the army's issues make them all up lies against us your government and others 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 army already helped the tunisian and

egyptian revolutions we want syrians now to get rid of this regime shake muslin doesn't wear muslim white robes and keeps his beard sacred to every sellafield shot so as not to draw too much attention he says everybody sekret feiss something these days just to see their mission and assad for. syria completed. regional snotty reporting from northern lebanon. and a top level tour of europe president putin this week or is patience to that the kofi annan plan come into effect in syria he was speaking ahead of a meeting with top e.u. officials who have now arrived in st petersburg and they've got a lot to discuss as a renegotiation explains. was it puts in 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 supposedly

plan of economic and eastern bloc now off you went afterwards to berlin on a whirlwind visit which lasted for only the date 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 the regime. we have longstanding good relations with syria but we soon become food if. i agree with you they don't come in to. both russian and german leaders seem to believe that coffee on speed planet should be seen to progress to 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 that 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 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 pose a 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 its 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 to 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 already employed openness 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 probably cannot expect a major breakthrough to be done it is clear that a lot of people a 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 ring and sentence for the former president hosni mubarak is serving life over the killing of eight hundred fifty protesters during last year's uprising well they're also furious that mubarak's two sons and several security officials have been acquitted archies time barred as and carro. hundreds of protesters occupying terrorists where behind me and more reporting into the square larger demonstrations have also been called for later in the day this all started yesterday initially with joy at 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 eleven hotmail it's a verdict has given the police the green light to do whatever they want because they knew they wouldn't be punished we want those who killed our children to get

life sentences and hosni mubarak and his interior minister should be executed. no doubt this verdict humiliating a years of part of the resolution of those who ruined this country escaped justice we know they're going to feel their version of the night to prevent that is that's what the what mohamed morsi the muslim brotherhood can do that in the upcoming second round of a 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 here that the old regime may still in power which we he's 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 the 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 future demonstrations planned in the coming week including a million man march through the capital. arab affairs journalists and the bill around danya says islamist mohamed morsi has promised to execute mubarak shows his desire just to seal the election not build a democratic and lawful egypt. they are people demonstrating against one hundred one hundred life sentence which d.c. is very lenient but it also has to be said. to commentators and other people who do

the key to successful revolution is precisely to do this in the mood of the room and trying to send an execution barak would be a setback. not only in egypt's revolution but also to the arab spring in general surely and key to a successful revolution is not to see the american tactics being reproduced in the tree and democracy in egypt but the two candidates who were switched to capitalize on. said that he was very dangerous just. because it means that nobody is in the know this is a man who was a very trying to highlight he's traveled he was in peace dies a little man who are going to the regime in the very end he's convening that the egyptians and mainly concerned which are weak prominent figure in any. regime should enter. coming up quarter past the hour coming up here on our taste ability versus sovereignty the people will get more caught from brussels with fears that

more decisions are being taken out of our hands. but first the wiki leaks save julian a song's lost his appeal against extradition from the u.k. to sweden this week where he's wanted on sexual assault charges britain supreme court ruled on wednesday that his arrest warrant was woful a scientist team was given 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 or not the supporters were out in full six weeks for julian assange to tearing his appeal was rejected and spent 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's a trumped up basic point you remember the jury and hasn't been charged with any

crime in any country and it really is extraordinary so much pain actual joy just for the purpose of questioning. it all began when we started revealing uncomfortable truths about the us government the afghanistan and iraq war logs gave shocking detail about the violent occupation of 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 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 is being seen by many as a david and goliath style fight with a staunch 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 could reach produced in a matter of two years. revelations about the workings of democratic drug use and the workings of the world in many ways how the world is wrong when or when used by western world put together. the word jealousy comes. in a further twisted. the tale songes legal team managed to get him and the eleventh hour extradition stay if they fail this battle is likely to end up in the european court of human rights it is. really a ritual. that should not be happy with. me on this issue but those huge 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 system as well sir. now while under house arrest in britain julia songs have been filming his talk show it next airs on our t.v. it's tuesday and don't forget you can also catch up on previous episodes at r.t. dot com. the irish people have said yes to more new austerity 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 citizens artist or 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 of working class. against sin 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. we're converted to the notion that you can cut your way. up to get people. to work. as a result of the greed of private bankers. so we. will 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. another three full time jobs. is it's a huge factor it's the discretionary spend that people have. you can see. people are very very very careful on how they spend their money to pay the economy 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 island spends its money so when he leaves 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 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 actually generated to produce the jobs choir defiance 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 to. but governments have already signed it the u.s. will give 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 which should boyd barrett of the united left alliance sees a police future because of all of the gambling debts of banks and speculators of import onto the books of the stage and that this would mean permanent austerity binion's worth of colt's every year for at least a decade or more in order to meet the treaty targets and we believe will do on told damage to the economy which is already very traumatized for ireland it seems more damaging austerity is up ahead here in doubt played every pastis bristling with

referendum posters the no post it's called the fiscal pact the bankers treaty the austerity pact but the yes campaign has won the day with its message of stability. prepared to see children see in exchange for financial backup but even that's not guaranteed been leakage yuri's they know it's me. in northern kosovo clashes between serbian protesters and nato but peacekeepers have left at least six people wounded local serbs trying to prevent troops from removing barricades they set up last year on the border with kosovo roadblocks were in response to an attempt by ethnic albanian of parties to impose order and customs controls nato troops use tear gas on small arms on protesters who responded with stones and hand gunfire served in kosovo reject the area's two thousand and eight declaration of independence from serbia political analyst alexander pilots in belgrade says the presence of foreign troops only stirs up more trouble. the nato

forces which are being called peacekeepers are actually trying to use for. to force the course of a service to accept living and independent crossover which they won't accept and that's the whole root of the problem 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 bating regime from priest enough 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 vacuum in belgrade to try to to establish a new reality on the ground in kosovo. the service is new president was sworn in on thursday and shortly before his inauguration you shared his thoughts with us on the situation in kosovo north and other challenges serbia faces you can hear more in just a couple of minutes here. let's bring you up to date on some of today's world news a passenger plane has crashed or two story building in one jury is largest city it's been confirmed that all one hundred and fifty three people on board the m d eighty three air jet were killed their plane came down in a neighborhood near lagos airport earlier another nigerian plane overshot a runway garma and plowed into the last ten people in the vehicle died but all four people aboard the cargo jet survived. miserable weather is felt 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 wish. let's go back to gallows began in february and as created last month when an emergency and to protest of all this passed over two and a half thousand people have been arrested since rallies started. britain's been marking queen elizabeth's diamond jubilee with the biggest river pageant in three hundred and fifteen years before until one thousand boats of all shapes and sizes sell down to tames on sunday and five waving crowds lined the riverbanks in london despite the cold and rain but everyone was in a celebratory mood though auntie royalists used the event to call time on the monarchy of her britain to become a republic. at r g dot com for you how did join in with america's hard pressed ninety nine percent are doing very occupy app on facebook lets you do just

that and out and campaign without leaving your p.c. and i thought for a prestigious design award true you can take a look online. also catch me if you can the saudi princess who tried to flee a five star hotel in paris without paying her several million dollar bill and was stopped by south it's not the first time for the world racketeer either as we reported our two year. shortly here on our t serbia's newly elected president talks to us about his plans for the country now that he's in charge that's after this short break and recap of our top stories.

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live from the russian capital with our top weekly stories 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 for the massacre russia believes the condemnation is premature because the investigation still ongoing and puts pressure on the security council. 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 top brass which is launch in st petersburg. egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak to begin serving life for his party and killing eight hundred and

fifty protesters during last year's uprising but thousands are enraged at what they see as a sentence. and the world's top whistleblower loses his extradition appeal from britain to sweden on sex assault allegations julian assange has legal team has fourteen days to appeal the decision that's they believe is politically motivated. next up serbia's newly elected president talks to us about his plans for the country now that he's in charge. mr president thank you very much for giving your time for this interview a few international media see you as a nationalist and a right wing however you based your election campaign on good relations with the european union look as though they are absolutely right i am a nationalist but i'm a democrat as well and as far as european values go we will.