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 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 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 going and stroking. 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. about two thousand soldiers and security forces have entered areas of the lebanese city of tripoli to restore calm after deadly clashes between pro and to syrian regime gunmen the army was deployed in order to reach an accord on the implementation of security measures at least fourteen people have been killed and dozens injured in the fierce fighting over the weekend levanon is also thought to be a major on top of the syrian rebels but as maria from national reports the deadly weapons flow is also a matter of faith. a solo 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. sparks shaadi not his real name also has rocket propelled and hand grenades which

he showed me in private people come or contact me every day we have a revolution next door. we're 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 staff we buy from has and their hours and research they have a nerve and they're getting it for free and as iran makes their entire story. it will take no more than ten hours for this shot he says to reach lebanon's conflict and gulf to neighbor since the beginning of the uprising in syria last march arms prices have rocketed for some items the coast has gone up five and sometimes even ten times and the more the conflict drags on the mole 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 do you teach or support his co religious

fighters in syria for sure we are with them will help them topple assad till they do it. in a sunni dominated north lebanon where we meet the arms dealer those who want assad out are in the absolute majority and they're sending their religious brothers in neighboring syria a lot more than prayers a comment 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. we have support from syrian ex-pats everywhere in the world people from britain france saudi arabia also send us money we buy weapons walkie talkies. from 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. ahmed 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 counts. we also need some officiate omar bakri one of the founders of the band islamic group suspected of links to international terrorism but he sees his input in the syrian revolt in sending the rebels the ideas and encouragement to achieve their ultimate goal what would call the c.i. army to make all the overthrow of the government we will make all the schools speak for against us you will always issues make them all up lies again to see a government and other some a fish a can triple the runs this car parts shop and 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 muslim doesn't wear muslim white robes and keeps his beard sacred to every sellafield short so as not to draw too much attention he says everybody sekret feiss something these days just to see their mission and assad free syria completed. an r.t. reporting from northern lebanon on a top level talk of europe president putin this week or urged patience to let the coffee and run plan come into effect in syria he was speaking ahead of a meeting with top officials who have now arrived in st petersburg and they've got a lot to discuss as a real being. 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 the 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 he went after words to berlin on a whirlwind visit which lasted for only half the day was going to put in and 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 al assad to which of course their action president prepared a response. but usually russia is unilaterally supporting the regime. we have longstanding good relations with syria but we soon to be conflict. and agree with. the don't come in to. both russian and german leaders seem to believe that the coffee on speed planet should be seen to progress to excess fully at the moment it does seem like a strong a by the seemingly unstoppable of fighting on all sides in syria now of

course and not all leaders in europe seem to agree with the french president francois 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 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. meeting with the french president of course was the issue of defense now russia's russia's adamant. 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 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 should be shared. in the past we've often been promised we wouldn't expand 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 part is to engage in dialogue it is natural that all of these issues of course will crop up during the russia 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. around the clock mass protests carry on for the second night in

a row in egypt over hosni mubarak sentence the country's also that leader is serving life for complicity in the killing of eight hundred fifty protesters during last year's uprising well barros two sons and six a security officials have been acquitted which also costs a burst of indignation among the people. and is in cairo. 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 hogmanay the verdict has given the police the green light to do whatever

they want because they knew they wouldn't be punished he want to kill their children to get life sentences and hosni mubarak and his interior minister should be executed. no doubt this verdict humiliated a year and a half after the revolution and those who ruined this country escaped justice we know they're going to appeal the verdict people should unite to prevent that. mohamed morsi the muslim brotherhood candidate in the upcoming second round of the presidential election 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 he's going to appeal the acquittals of those top security officials people here who are really focused on the yesterday's verdict snow said that that is the sign that

the military here 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 raided and people say that they were even doubting whether a second round in the election should go ahead. after chesapeake has said that he wouldn't reinstate the all regime but he's going to have a lot of convincing to do to try and make people believe the future demonstrations planned in the coming week including a million man march through the capital. arab affairs journalist now better i'm done he says islamists mohamed morsi has promised to execute mubarak shows his desire to just to seal the election not build a democratic and lawful egypt. they are people demonstrating against. life sentence which d.c. is very lenient but it also has to be said there are also commentators and other

people who think the key to successful revolution is precisely to do something more of the rule and in trying to send an execution. would be a setback to not only egypt's revolution but also to the arab spring in general surely kind of key to a successful revolution is not to see the america tactics being reproduced in a tree in democracy in egypt but the two candidates who are switched to capitalize on. said he was very dangerous. because it means that nobody is in the know this is a man who was a very trying to highlight how troubled he was in peace dies a little more regime of earlier in his convening and the egyptians and mainly concerned to which are weak prominent figure in really who should enter. the weekly x. chief julian assange lost his appeal against extradition from the u.k.

to sweden where he is wanted on sexual assault allegations but his supreme court ruled on wednesday that his arrest warrant was a lawful a songes the team was given fourteen days to appeal the decision which the world's top whistleblower says it's politically motivated therof with reports from london. the truth shall set you free all. the supporters were out in force this week for julian assange to tearing his appear was rejected in a split five two decision by the judges after all the five hundred days of house arrest in britain he's now on the brink of deportation to sweden to answer questions about sexual assault accusations he's say a trumped up basic knowledge remember that julian hasn't been charged with any crime in any country. it really is extraordinary that so much pain actual 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 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 were so close that 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 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 can reach produced in

a matter of. more revelations about the workings of democratic of the workings of the world in many ways how the world is wrong than all the news by 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 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. told me unnecessary but if she's disappointment among his supporters at the decision and a real fun filled this wasn't just the last beginning a songe and his legal team but a loss for the british justice system. as well sir arthur c. london while under house arrest in britain julian assange has filmed his talk show

that next is on r t this chews day don't forget you can also catch up with previous episodes at r.t. dot com. the irish people have said yes to more austerity this week in a nationwide referendum supporters say this will ensure stability and more rescue cash while critics fear the country will lose at the power to make its own decisions artie's laura smith explains arland says yes to writing european austerity into law and ceding more sovereignty to brussels the sixty forty result saw a split between rich and poor with middle class and rural areas in favor of working class urban dwellers 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 the.

we're converted to the notion that you can't cut your way. up to get people. back into work. just banking. on. 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 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. it's a huge factor it's the discretionary spend that people have. you can feel. very

very very careful on how they spend the money to pay the economies tightly bound to the euro zone three bank bailouts the treaty binds budget treat policy even tighter so that brussels will have a say over how island 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 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 actually generated rolls to produce the jobs choir defiance 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 to. but governments have already

signed it the yes vote 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 richard boyd baratz of the united left alliance sees a police future because of all of the gambling debts of banks and speculators of import on to 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 damage to the economy which is already very traumatized for ireland it seems more damaging austerity is up ahead here in every post is bristling with referendum posters the no coasters call 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 over and

see in exchange for financial backup but even that's not guarantee the beleaguered yuri's they know it's me. remember there's always more on all our stories including the island referendum at r.t. dot com i think very high ad on facebook led to you do just that camp out in campaign with. an example percentages that design award to take a look on the bright. and britain's been rocking queen elizabeth and diamond you big deal with the big river pageant in three hundred fifty. thousand votes of all shapes and failed on the times on sunday feed for yourself at our dot com. a day after laying out details of the pentagon's new asia pacific strategy u.s. defense secretary leon panetta has visited vietnam on saturday he said the majority of america's warships will be deployed in the area by two thousand and twenty

american talk show host stephen lemmon says this is a virtual declaration of war for domination in the region. well america is doing everything possible to maintain its dominance close locally months back obama gave a speech he said america will increase its presence in middle east and east asia north korea is the punching bag china is the target if china knows it just the way russia knows that being encircled with u.s. bases in america's missile shield has nothing to do with the brand 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 china knows there's china believes that the south china sea. is what it is america wants to come in and usurp them but just imagine what if china or russia wanted its

flee of america's east the west coast for the congress that would probably be an act of war. now to the latest news of this hour and in nigeria we're hearing that the death toll after saturday's plane crash may rise to two hundred official confirmed to the three on board and one more on the ground we killed after the jet crawled into a two story building it's feared at least fourteen more may have been trapped under the rubble this is nigeria's was a disaster in almost two decades and the president has declared a period of national mourning. ten suspected islamist militants have been killed by a u.s. drone in a village near pakistan's border with afghanistan four missiles targeted a group of fighters who gathered to mourn the victims of an earlier u.s. attack on saturday it was a six drone strike in the last two weeks the continuing attacks are increasing

tension between pakistan and the u.s. which is ignored demands to stop the use of drones. three people were killed and eight injured when a hand grenade was detonated in a packed nightclub in serbia the explosion in egypt north of the country's capital belgrade when off to a group of became angry over being denied entry to the club two of them were killed in the blast incidents with firearms are relatively calm one in the balkans where many weapons remain in civilian hands after the one nine hundred ninety s. was. no there in kosovo clashes between serbian protesters and nato led peacekeeping if have left it he thinks people wounded local feds tried to prevent sheaves of from removing barricades set up last year on the border with cost of all the road blocks away in response to an attempt by ethnic albanian employees border and customs control made to achieve that use tear gas and small arms on protesters who responded with stones and gunfire and cause the reject the area's two thousand

and eight declaration of independence from third via political analyst alexander pov it 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 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 calls of all baiting regime from trieste 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 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 with just parliamentary and presidential elections but we do not have a functioning government that we only have a technical government so it actually works nato and the e.u. and the us are doing they're using the power of vacuum and great to try to to establish a new reality on the ground in kosovo. so because new president was sworn in on thursday shortly before his inauguration he shared his thoughts with us on the situation in kosovo as north and other challenges a soviet faces and you can catch the full interview in just over an hour here on our team up next 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. where my hands you know just as if anyone would. but they do tell a story they tell a story of. oxen. oh . oh.

it's three thirty am here in moscow you're watching our teaser the weekly here's a recap of the headlines plus the one that the u.n. human rights body it's put in the syrian peace plan at risk by blaming the regime which accuses the armed rebel gangs for the method russia believes or the condemnation if there was show because investigations still ongoing puts pressure on the security council. while president putin's a reaffirmed his duns on not taking sides and joining toplevel visit to paris and going in to speak now head of a meeting with the e.u. top brass which has launched infant petersburg. syria and egypt for the second night in a row as demonstrators angry at what they see as

a soft sentence for their former leader possibly country as the president hosni mubarak begin serving life for his part in killing eight hundred fifty protesters during last year's uprising. and the world's top whistleblower loses the extradition of people from britain to sweden on sex assault on the gauge and julian assange legal team has fourteen days to appeal the decision which they believe is politically motivated. and now a japanese all right has personal recreate which looks at the children of soldiers from the u.s. and vietnam who've been poisoned by agent orange live in the silent spring is next . the u.s. air force kept detailed records of the spray missions that began in one nine hundred sixty one and continued for ten years these voluminous records were used to create maps and calculate the extent of the spraying thirty years after the war ended.