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three solution has returned after the syrian regime was condemned internationally for the death of one hundred eight people half of whom were children before an investigation into who was responsible was even launched they're all saying that their side regime is committing human rights abuses and they repeat this message obsessive lee i am confident to predict that indeed it will remain fixed in people's minds and could well be used as a pretext and you don't have to look back to far to see where hasty judgments saw a rush to take up arms but the cost of war and nine months exactly what happened in our division of a massacre which was the village of russia. you were in green that was severely bullied by the u.s. ambassador it was leaving your observation mission on the ground your claims that it was a brutal massacre or as a group innocent civilians by government troops serving it was when presented with ultimatum and randomly aimed and bought back then the yugoslavian government just
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like the syrian one now condemned militants for the killings in this case blaming the ban in separatists from the kosovo liberation army an investigation was launched to find out whether the victims were innocent civilians as the international community claimed or whether the country's army had been battling professional fighters two out of three forensic inquiries proved most of the casualties died in combat the third report by an e.u. team has never been made public interesting we know about the we have been reports of syrian rebels who are they are liaising with the. think of being in kosovo liberation army people who were basically agents of mido in the causal war. basically treading on i don't know they were saying they were training in the marsian human rights but definitely the only training that caylee could have ever given anybody is how to finance a gun or stage a war and i believe that six that it was happening now. but even with hindsight
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after the nato bombing of yugoslavia all ruin the alliances these tribes in libya last year history isn't been prevented from repeating itself again and again. when this disturbing images from the syrian village of houla made world headlines everybody agreed those who are guilty must be punished but the reaction from the international community has been so sweet and so called in ated the risk is that punishment will come before even those who are truly responsible are posed and that could not just a loss of justice but also huge loss of life. reef nationality moscow. when the or clarke a contributor to britain's guardian newspaper says a major obstacle to kofi annan as a peace plan is the near free rein given to the rebels by their backers. a crucial point of the whole affair now and i think that the onus must be on the western powers to sort of back down here because you know let's face it the u.s.
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britain france saudi arabia qatar do not want to succeed it's the syrian government wants it to see to russia and china what you know why is the plan working so far in bringing peace because the rebels are still fighting they're still using arms terrorist attacks are taking place in syria and one of the syrian government supposed to do in response seems now evidence has come out of who wrote that you know last week we were told it was a syrian government now the evidence is not so clear and the only way we can have a peaceful solution to this is if the western powers and countries like qatar saudi arabia rein in the rebels and say to them look stop this and stop supplying them with arms so you know it's not repeated to the people who are backing the violent rebels to rein them in. well thousands of lebanese troops have been deployed to tripoli the nation's second largest city in the effort to stop clashes between pro and anti us groups more than a dozen civilians have died there in recent days as a conflict from neighboring syria spills across the border saru sic on their
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university believes the growing violence is being fueled by gulf arab states the regional countries are are interfering in syria this easily becomes a regional conflict and it's devastating for lebanon which has suffered enough already so many years of civil war between nine hundred seventy five and one thousand nine hundred and now you know the violence is happening on a much more extreme level in the north and the lebanese are getting nervous they don't want to have to live through another civil war and it seems like the international and foreign in the gulf states are only encouraging the lebanese to get more involved and to drag it into a civil war and again i think this is more a political agenda than anything else this has to do with the resistance access this has to do with hizbollah this has to do with iran and the what you term an attempt to undermine these players in the regional politics because they know how popular they are and they know how powerful they are and it's just going to make
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the whole region into a complication huge conflict and this could be avoided if the gulf countries step back didn't get involved in lebanon didn't get involved in syria and if the west didn't instigate them to. well calls for military intervention in syria and unsubstantiated allegations against the assad regime is something russia has been vigorously against. instead of this position is expected to be put to the test e.u. summit in st petersburg. experience. you have syria a country which is balancing on the brink of a civil war with the european leaders is still on able to come to any agreement on whether or not to do anything definite if you know what or to try and appease the situation there of course the peace plan produced. which is unfortunately being impeded by the seemingly on seizing the fighting on all sides in the syrian conflict and one of the main things which will be in focus at this time is the
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issue off the economic crisis. greece will just threatening to pull out from the eurozone that matter should be decided within weeks so europe is in a very precarious situation there is also the major issue of. europe's dependency on russia's natural resources this is also an area where russia and the european union countries are playing along together in a sort of a symbiotic relationship that matters russia's accession to w t o y are also expected to be talked about it does seem as if the european and russian leaders are really set on figuring out a way to solve these problems which really have been beating the progress in international relations and in the european region for quite some time now. coming up a few days from the program economic hardships move north process of students protest against a hike in tuition fees which would double the cost of education so they should
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start opening its. u.s. military seeks to return to vietnam as part of its build up in the asia pacific region that's being seen as a. but to undermine china. around the clock protests continuing on tahrir square in cairo there's fear for what demonstrators see as their lenient sentencing of egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak and his associates welcome barton joins us live now from car to this more on this toll is there a vote in the air again. it seems there may well be kerry testers still on the square now very large protests overnight all of this century around this court decision not to see. back itself. also i. should say.
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it's the deaths of hundreds of troops just last year i very good about that they say that although they don't criticize the judge the same is a great solution they say that he is part of the old system. ok thanks for that. well crowds of protesters are still filling tahrir square in cairo furious at what they think is a lenient sentencing as you said egypt's president hosni mubarak the former leader got life in prison for his role in the deaths of hundreds of protesters during last year's revolution but his sons and six police commanders were cleared the demonstrators have been demanding the execution. now moving on the arab affairs journalist danny says both remaining candidates in egypt's presidential election are trying to spin their reaction to me but they way
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. they are also people demonstrating against. life sentence which d.c. has never nini and but he also has to be said. commentators and other people who would say very good key to successful revolution is precisely to do this on the mood of the room and trying to send an execution of mubarak would be a setback to not only egypt's revolution but also to the arab spring in general surely going to key to a successful revolution is not to see tomorrow tactics being reproduced in the tree in democracy in egypt but the two candidates who are switched to capitalize on the . chief said that he was in great danger just. because it means that nobody is among the know this is a man who was a very trying to highlight he's traveled he was in his diaries little known market and regime in
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a very and he's convening. well there's more on all of this and other stories r.t. dot com iranians in this space center this completion of course controversy as critics fear it's just a cover for making nuclear weapons. and the e.u. and google go head to head as the search engine is told to make changes about climate geishas or favoritism an abuse of market power.
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emission free critique free. for charges free. range month free. three stooges free. download free broadcast to mediocre for your media project free video dog hearty dot com. to vietnam that's what the american military wants as it seeks to return to long abandoned ports and that u.s. defense secretary leon panetta asked for the country to grant u.s. naval ships access that would turn his asia pacific talk he also announced that the majority of american warships will be deployed in the area by twenty twenty american talk show host david letterman says the military buildup is clearly and that china. well america is doing everything possible to maintain its star going
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to school or locally months obama gave a speech he said that america will increase its presence in the middle east in east asia north korea is the punching bag china is the target china knows it just the way russia knows that being encircled with u.s. bases in america's missile shield is nothing to do with the reality 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 in south korea china knows there's believed to be so i'll try to see if it is what it is america wants to come here and you certainly are just a major what if china or russia wanted its fully of america's east the west coast for the congress there would probably be an air of war. but greece is gearing up for a parliamentary election in less than two weeks time which could mean nothing scrapping
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its bailout deal with even i.m.f. his future in the euro zone is also under intense scrutiny in an interview coming up next hour american economist and nobel laureate and mask and says an end to the e.u.'s financial woes is still nowhere in sight. greece could go on. and so on term depression unemployment could grow to astronomical heights it's already very high but it could it could certainly get higher. things are by no means currently as bad as they as they could get i've seen the the greek situation as a tragedy because so much of what has happened could have been prevented if europe were truly. an integrated unit.
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in canada thousands of again taken to the streets of quebec and they just demonstrations following weeks of protests and demands for tuition fee freeze rain didn't deter crowds from botching through the trails two days after talks between student groups and the government went down more than two and a half thousand people have been arrested since protests started in february more than a dozen politicians in the province. how american influence and canadian thinking he blames. the canadian province of quebec a region that prides itself on free healthcare and affordable education for its residents students here pay a fixed amount for tuition fees around twenty five hundred dollars a year for all of the colleges and universities that's the lowest rate in north america and the taxpayers pick up the rest but that model might change as their government looks south they are looking at present borders and seeing what the united states are doing and trying to become closer and closer to what the united
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states are working on which is more in line for it is a shame since i don't but i have a new social program that cover for everybody. tens of thousands spilled onto the. when the government said they'd be pushing up to we should fees every year and in five years the students will face education costs almost double what they are paying now. i mean even you know this is a student at a montreal university she works part time at a local ice cream shop she says if the people of keg don't stand their ground now in the future higher education just won't be an option for many if it's too expensive for children may not even think about going to school because it's another world it's part of something that's accessible when i even think about being a doctor or. you know it would be you know it's a symbol and what i was saying is that in usa it's so expensive so the people the
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poor people they want to study they have no choice but going to army for that the prospect of having to join the military to provide for their education is not the only thing about the u.s. example that scares the cake walk to fund skyrocketing tuition fees americans carry massive student loan debts on their shoulders we need to preserve this and become what we see growing in the united states right now having a lot of students they are still paying for their university program and when they are seventy years old so we need to make sure that every students will be able to contribute to. our economy region and making sure that they have you can afford actually to start and maybe. new and new businesses the rest of north america should be looking to come back as an example of how to mobilize how student association should function through direct democracy and how they should actually organize and challenge these measures and challenge this shackle system. the
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protests clearly signaled the path that came back is willing or rather not willing to take when we look towards the united states we see a country in which the idea of access is wrapped. pay and this is what we're seeing the resistance against that access to things like higher education or like health care are in fact access to public goods and that there should be a way of controlling the costs and ensuring that people no matter what their monetary capabilities are able to take advantage of these kinds of programs. what the world knows about the protests here is that they have to do with students and their tuition with people of the province it's not so much about the economy but more about their identity and the special welfare model that they're striving to keep. reporting from montreal canada. now a look at some other stories making international headlines this hour the death
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toll from sunday's plane crash in nigeria is expected to rise to around two hundred one hundred fifty three on board died when the jet plowed into a two story building with more than forty people missing on the rubble reports say the pilots was making frantic calls just before the crash the country's president declared three days of mourning for the victims. up to sixteen suspected taliban fighters are thought to have been killed after a u.s. drone strike targeted a militant compound in northwestern pakistan is the seventh attack in the last two weeks with unconfirmed reports that foreigners are among the dead foreigners increasing tension between pakistan and washington which is ignored demands to stop . strikes. one of two members of a cult still wanted for involvement in the ninety ninety five nerve gas attack on the subway has been arrested. he was spotted in a city moments is from the capital to living in hiding and knitted identity to
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police he was being sought on charges of murder for the attack in which thirteen people were killed and thousands injured one of a cult member remains on the run. with iran to get latest business update now and declining oil prices merida investors hearing that. hi carol first of all we know that the russian economy is mainly based on water the money makes from its oil and gas sector so this is never good really but i'll get to that in just a minute first let's take a look at some ensor national markets will start with the u.s. because that's really what triggered everything on fry then is continuing to do so today as you can see it was a sea of red that balancing over two percent the nasdaq over two and a half percent and basically and that's is there were reacting to a disappointing jobs that up for the month of may the u.s. generated sixty nine thousand jobs which was far less than the expect that our. hundred and sixty five thousand was also the smallest increase in the year so
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that's a really sit well with investors there or around the world we saw markets going into the red let's take a look at asia which is the only one trading right now it's a sea of red there is well and basically investors there are only now reacting to this data because they closed before i knew scame out we can see the nikkei stopping over two percent and similarly with the hang sang and among the worst that there are exporters in japan especially mazda is losing over six percent this hour and also energy firms are in the us because of the cloud in the oil prices as i said it's not just russia and i'll get to the oil prices in just a second let's take a look at europe it was a similar picture there as well but investors are also reacting to negative near my data in the region and that resulted in the dad still playing almost three and a half percent there moving on to other news coming out from europe cyprus may now turn out to be the next country to seek a bailout its banking system is of course exposed to greece but earlier the island
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reject the suggestions of would need financial aid but now at the end of june cyprus faces a deadline to find almost two billion euros three capital requirements and analysts fear that this cash will have to come from europe speyer out funds. also according to a new report the jobless rate in the euro zone stood out of a level percent in april which was the same as in march and that's the highest level since one thousand nine hundred five the need epicenter of european war is which is spain have let's hope jobless rates in the union at twenty four percent the lowest unemployment is an all students around four percent there and germany bucked the trend with the rate dropping by ten basis points to five point four percent. well considering all with markets here in russia it's now an hour ahead of the opening bell what you're seeing is the picture from friday. yes and the mice and of the trade in in session. the right track in overseas losses and here as i
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said decline in oil prices also had a major factor now let's take a look at currencies the euro is still losing against the dollar when it comes to the ruble it should have percent of its value for the month of may and it was trading at three year lows against the greenback we have updated figures for that next hour when the russian markets open. or oil prices are set they're heading south in fact they're trading at seven month lows currently lightspeed is trading close to eighty two dollars per barrel when it comes to the brant plugs at around ninety seven dollars per barrel and of course all this is having a major effect of energy dependent economies like russia and what it's all consumed renaissance chief capital of innocence capital chief economist i should save on chicago and here explain what kind of effect this could have on the russian economy we should not forget that the current budget is based on one hundred fifteen or pricing or prices already. those who dismiss that they're going to have probably a little bit of a fiscal deficit means the current account is going to be smaller probably we're
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going to see a continuation of capital outflows from the economy but as you know in the first quarter of this year because we grew very robustly in particular when compared to our emerging market economies economy grew by five percent and even though we do believe that we're going to see. a priest if you cannot make acute in the second half of the year i think to be able to grow about about people in two thousand and twelve. and of course like so we'll see if there is any optimism left among investors on the markets for that. very thanks for that as you say more for me. well now a special report is coming up here in a few minutes as we bring you a look at the american dream from a new perspective that's right to recap a lot of stores.
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times the headlines now arundhati syria's a president who cries the massacre and blasts the perpetrators as monsters but fresh attempts to blame his regime are being labelled as part of a plan to engineer military intervention. in syria center stage two at the russian e.u. summit with european leaders pushing russia to exert more pressure on damascus and moscow dialogue to resolve the conflict. in a court verdict on egypt's ousted leader hosni mubarak and his aides ignites this continuing protest both candidates competing in the presidential election seek to exploit the sentencing. but up next our special reports with
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a different perspective on the american dream. and the immigration goes down in the senate that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. critics of arizona's newly signed immigration bill say it allows police to stop anyone on the street based purely on the person's appearance governor brewer's response when asked by a reporter what illegal immigrant looks like. i do not know i do not know what legal immigrant that's like but the sticking point is what to do with the millions of people who are in this country in this country illegally the u.s. government will have no idea who they are and where they are in this very dangerous time that is a very dangerous thing. around .

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