boards at the un human rights bodies put in the syria peace plan they're driven by prematurely blaming the regime for that will massacre its leaders and says what's done to rebel against. president putin reaffirms his stance on not taking sides during top level visits to paris and berlin head of a meeting with the e.u. top brass which has launched in st petersburg. period around the clock demonstrators in egypt really for the second night as their house their president hosni mubarak stuck living life for his part in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising which angry crowds considered to be to some extent. and to the world's top with the blower julian assad loses his extradition appeal from the

bridge into some you didn't like the assault allegation. it's six o'clock here in moscow you're watching our t.v. here is the weekly russia's warning that the u.n. human rights resolution condemning the syrian leadership for last week's houla massacre risk derailing the peace plan moscow called it premature because the investigation's ongoing and that it's putting pressure on the security council where russia is resisting foreign military action on sunday present assad insisted his troops had nothing to do with the slaughter of more than one hundred people in the city he blamed on drabble gangs for the attack and outside forces for instigating the conflict to trigger intervention washington which backs the syrian opposition and forcing assad out admits there are plans for military action so.

from america's a syracuse university believes of the u.s. never truly back to the peace initiative. everybody in washington wants 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 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 the annan 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 going

and stooping 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. 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 lebanon is also thought to be a major hub for the syrian rebels but as maria from national report the deadly weapons flow is also a matter of play. as solo shows off his goods. this is five thousand dollars and 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. or contact me every day we have a revolution next door. talking shot 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 and they're ours and resell they have a nerve and they're getting it for free as iran makes their entire story. it will take no more than ten hours for this shot he says to reach lebanon's conflict and gulf to neighbor since the beginning of the our prize and 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 more look at it it is for the

weapons dealers but money is not the key reason shaadi is a sunni muslim and to him it's his holy do you teach or support his co religious fighters in syria for sure we. 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. mad twenty nine year old field commander from the free syrian army was wounded during the siege earlier this spring together with other injured f.s.a. members his now having treatment in lebanon but his not stopped fighting entirely. we have support from syrian ex-pats everywhere in the world people from britain france saudi arabia also send us money weapons walkie talkies.

borders 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 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 call might backley 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 the ultimate goal. to make all the overthrow of the government would make all the scholars speak for against these issues and make them all applies i guess the government and other summer fish a can triple he 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. already help the tunisian and egyptian revolutions we want syrians now to get rid of this regime. shake muslim doesn't wear muslim white robes and gives his beard sacred to every selfie shot so as not to draw too much attention he says everybody sacrifices something these days just to see their mission and assad free syria completed. an r.t. reporting from northern lebanon. on a top level top of europe president putin this week patients to let the coffee an unplanned 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 irina 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 suppose that the plan of economic and eastern bloc now off you went afterwards 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 al assad to which of course the russian president prepared a response. but russia is unilaterally supporting the assad regime room we have longstanding good relations with syria but. the conflict if the situation i agree with. they don't come in objectives. both russian and german leaders

seem to believe that the coffee on speed splenda 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 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 way that the french president of course was the issue of missile defense now russia's russia's adamant. that 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 suppose it possible strikes from the likes of iran and north korea now these plans worry moscow very much and moscow has been adamant in its demands that nato and its allies present written guarantees that this missile shield will not be used against russia could be. in the past we've often been promised 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 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 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 hosni mubarak sentence the country's all said leader is serving life for complicity in the killing of eight hundred fifty protesters during last year's uprising mubarak's two sons and six security officials have been acquitted which also cost a burst of indignation among the people tom barton 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 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

. the 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 their children to get life sentences and hosni mubarak and his interior minister should be executed. no doubt this verdict humiliating a years of hard for the resolution of those who rule in this country escaped justice we know they're going to appeal the verdict of the night to prevent this that's worse than 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 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 were doubting whether a second round in the election should go ahead. after chance because 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 future demonstrations planned in the coming week including a million man march through the capital. arab affairs a journalist and i've been there i'm done he says islamist mohamed morsi has promised to execute mubarak shows that his only intention is to win the election not to build a democratic and law for egypt. there are people demonstrating against.

life sentence which does 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 this in the movie and in. execution and barak would be a setback to not only egypt's revolution but also to the arab spring in general surely and a key to a successful revolution is not to see the america tactics being reproduced in a tree and democracy in egypt but the two candidates who are switched to capitalize on. said that he was very dangerous to see 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 and his dies a little. regime earlier and he's complaining that the egyptians are mainly

concerned which are weak prominent figure in very. regime should enter. the weekly exchange for julian the son she lost his appeal against extradition from the u.k. to sweden where he's wanted on sexual assault allegations but his supreme court ruled on wednesday that his arrest warrant a was lawful a scientist team was given fourteen days to appeal the decision which the world's top whistleblower says it's politically motivated therof earth 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 and it really is it should. 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 those countries the scale of civilian deaths on potential war crimes all at the hands of u.s. forces and the swedish arrest warrant wasn't far behind i think this will send a chilling effect to over potential whistleblowers that if they dare challenge the secrecy and indeed in many cases war crimes of united states they will face retribution and that's bad for democracy it's bad for human rights the case has been seen by many as a david and goliath style fight 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. revelation about the workings of democratic up some of the workings of the world in many ways how the world is wrong when all the newspapers in 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 whether she's disappointment among his supporters at the station on a real son but this wasn't just the last beginning a songe and his legal team but a loss for the british justice system as well sir are

a london. well under house arrest in britain julian a son she has filmed his talk show that next is on r t this chews day and don't forget you can also catch up with previous episodes at r.t. doc and. they are as people have said the years are two more e.u. 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 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 in 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 will a number of commitments during

a strong. we're converted to the notion that you can't cut your way. up to get people. back into work. just. as a result of the greed a private bankers. so we. hold to those too much 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 to and five full time employee. for part time to full time to part time we had a restaurant upstairs which is now closed that's another three full time jobs.

it's a huge factor it's the discretionary spend that people have. you can see it throughout . the restaurant. and people are very very very careful on how they spend their money today economies tightly bound to the euro zone 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 that are required of the scale that's required to actually generate the goals to produce the jobs that are required if i was to get out of this mess that it's in thanks to the constitution

the irish are the only european people who got to vote on the pact and to. but governments have already signed it the yes vote will give outage 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 onto the books of the state and that this would mean permanent austerity billions worth of courts 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 parent every lamp post is bristling with referendum posters they know posters call the fiscal pact the bankers treaty the

austerity package but the yes campaign has won the day with its message of stability. just see over and see in exchange for financial backup but even that's not guaranteed the beleaguered bureaus they know it's very hard to. remember there's always more in all of our stories including the island referendum at r.t. dot com then you also find parties very on occupy app on facebook lets you do just that camp out and campaign without leaving your p.c. and it's up for prestigious design award to take a look online. and of britain's been marking queen elizabeth diamond jubilee with the big as a river pageant in three hundred fifty years efforts eleven thousand both of all shapes and sizes sail down the thames on sunday see it for yourself and our team. a day after laying out details of the pentagon's new age of 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 leatherman says this is a virtual declaration of war for domination in the region. well america is doing everything possible to maintain its dominance close globally months back obama gave a speech he said that america will increase its presence in middle east and the 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 iran and 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 what it's flee of america's east the west coast for the congress that would probably be an act of war. let's take a look at other stories making headlines this hour starting in pakistan where we're getting reports of yet another drone attack killing several militants and at least thirty people were killed and others injured in a bus crash in northern pakistan are on the hundred passengers were on their way home from a wedding ceremony the driver reportedly lost control of the vehicle which rolled several times before landing in a ditch. it's not fear the death toll after sunday's plane crash could rise to two hundred in that nigerian officials confirm all a hundred fifty three on board and then another underground were killed when the judge plowed into a two story building with these forty victims all to be trapped under the rubble

the pilot reported technical problems on the road to law goes into court and the game because of the high voltage wire while trying to land this is nigeria's with a disaster in almost two decades and the president has declared a period of national mourning. three people were killed and eight injured to when a hand grenade was detonated in the packed nightclub in serbia the explosion in each of all north of the country's capital belgrade when after a group became angry over being denied entry to the club two of them were killed in the blast incidents with why arms are relatively common in the balkans where many weapons remain in civilian hands after the one nine hundred ninety s. war. no the running costs of clashes between thirty and protesters and nato led peacekeepers have left at least six people wounded. try to prevent troops from removing barricades that they set up last year on the border with cost of the road

blocks away in response to an attempt by athletic albanian authorities to impose a blow to and customs controls. used to give them a small protest as responded with so you can hand and buy in the same cost of only take the area's two thousand and eight declaration of independence from serbia political analyst alexander of each in belgrade the presence of foreign troops only says up what trouble oh well 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 prefer live ammunition at people trying to keep the barricades and they're trying to keep the barricades to prevent the course of all baiting regime from trieste enough 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 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. so because new president was sworn in on thursday shortly before his inauguration he said his thoughts with us on the situation in kosovo is not and the other challenges faced by say that's right after a recap of our top stories here on r t stay with that.

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