top of everybody's mind naturally considering the fact that this is coming not too long after the massacre in the syrian tel now paula which took the lives of more than one hundred people most of them children and of course immediately afterwards the western media have cried out in condemnation blaming almost unilaterally the also drew saying that it's just the government that's responsible for the killings of the innocent civilians whereas of course russia remains a stern saying that it's not this shouldn't be just one side that should be blamed for the continuing violence in the country of course there was the you and human rights council resolution which russia did not support refused to sign and did say that it was it was just actually counteracting that was being put forth. and it also contradicted the resolution by that very same united nations human rights council which was accepted which was brought out just at the may

so i guess russia is a very determined to continue to stand its points whereas of course some countries for example france who have already said that they would like to see military intervention in order to stop the conflict in syria but whether or not that actually will be the case of course remains to be seen russia is hoping to keep european western leaders from making the same taking the same action they have taken good when it came to syria i'm sorry to libya we have said that the whole situation is also very minute sense of what was happening in yugoslavia in the one nine hundred ninety s. so a very very difficult very difficult point right now or russian leaders and for the european leaders and of course there are some other issues which they will be talking about it's not just the international the just the international problems which will be on their agenda there will of course touch upon the economy which is also finding itself in dire straits at the moment with greece threatening to pull out from the euro zone any day. almost there is also of course the issue of the

economic interdependency between russia and the european union in matters that concern the energy supplies for example all of these will be discussed but again we have we probably should be expecting the international issues to really dominate the agenda of the discussions here in st petersburg. ok arena thanks for that. well syrian leader bashar assad has flatly rejected any state involvement in the north are calling it a monstrous massacre the president went on to blame not the opposition but foreign backed fighters in syria he says are spreading chaos. foreign intervention may be the ultimate goal. ten days after the terrible massacre in the syrian city of who're the world is still watching to see how this tipping point will shape the crisis while there is still at least some hope of a peaceful solution many analysts believe those hopes are fading fast the

american british and french push for military intervention in syria is absolutely enormous we've seen hague of course william hague the british foreign secretary calling for intervention we've seen the new french president saying the same thing the americans obviously taking the lead the specter of a military 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 see exactly what happened when our division of a massacre which was a village of or

a very un inquiry that was severely bullied by the u.s. ambassador was leaving your observation mission on the ground your claims that it was a. tragic or innocent civilians by government troops serving it was when presented with ultimatum and gamed and bought back then the yugoslavian government just like the syrian one now condemned militants for the killings in this case blaming the benon 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 we have been reports of syrian rebels whoever they are liaising with the. think of being in kosovo

liberation army people who were basically agents of mido in the course or. basic of training on don't know they were saying they were training in the marsian human rights but definitely the only training that the killing could have even anybody is how to figure massacre in or stage a war. or what's happening now but even with hindsight after the nato bombing of yugoslavia ruin the alliances the strikes in libya last year history isn't been prevented from repeating itself again and again. when these disturbing images from the syrian village of whole are 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 donated the reason is that punishment will come before even those who are truly responsible are exposed and that could mean not just a loss of justice but also huge loss of life reef nationality

mosco on the or clark a contributor to britain's guardian newspaper says a major obstacle to kofi allen's peace plan is the virtual free rein given to the rebels by their backers. you know the 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. britain france saudi arabia qatar do not want to succeed if the syrian government wanted to see the russian 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's response seems now evidence has come out of who are 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 start supply them with

arms so you know it's not repeated to the people who are backing the violent rebels to rein them in. or thousands of lebanese troops have been deployed to tripoli the nation's second largest city in an effort to stop clashes between pro and anti assad groups more than a dozen civilians have died there in recent days as a conflict from neighboring syria spills across the border. from america's soon kusin averse to please 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 for in the 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 hezbollah this has to do with iran and the west determined attempt to undermine these players and the regional politics because they know how popular they are and they know how powerful they are and it's just going to make 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 that the west didn't instigate them too. well coming up here later in the program economic hardships move north thousands of projects to test against a dramatic hike of jewish and beans which will double the cost of good little education government should stop because it's something. the u.s. military seeks a return to be known as part of its build up of the asia pacific region and what's being seen as a further efforts to undermine china. now around the clock protests are continuing

on tahrir square in cairo there's fear of a what's demonstrators see as the sentencing of egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak and his associates told barton joins us live now from cairo to tell us more about tom well his revote in the arrogant. there is indeed kerry protesters are occupying risk where in central cairo calling for a second revolution to change the situation in egypt initial happiness that former president hosni mubarak was given a life sentence turned to anger as other senior security officials were acquitted of involvement in the deaths of hundreds of protesters last year mohamed morsi the muslim brotherhood's candidate in the upcoming presidential elections second round in the country toward the camp be said that the revolution should continue and that

if he was chosen as president he would try and get mubarak back on trial and how him executed that's a sentiment a sentiment that resonates with more than a few protesters here in central cairo and the chief prosecutor of egypt has also said that he's going to try and appeal the acquittals of some of those of those senior security officials after made shafique is the other presidential candidates in this race in a race a presidential race that's seen by many as not really being sufficient not up to what they hoped for for this revolution and they see the court's verdict at this very crucial time in egypt as a sign that not much has changed and that they all knew military regime is still in power and mr shafique said that he would not reinstate that old regime and that a choice for the muslim brotherhood would take egypt back to the dark ages as he

put it although he's going to have a lot of convincing to do to make people believe that he's not part of that old regime in the meantime as this election divides the egyptian people more protests are being held here in the capital and elsewhere over the country and more are being planned including a million man march through the capital. ok tom bottom reporting live there from a volatile situation kyra thanks for that. arab affairs journalist danny says that both remaining candidates in egypt's presidential elections are trying to spin their reaction to mubarak's that their own way. they are of people demonstrating against one hundred life sentence which d.c. is very lenient but he also has to be said that they are also commentators and other people who are saying that the key to successful revolution is precisely to do this on the mood of the room and trying to send an execution 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 america tactics being reintroduced in a tree and democracy in egypt but the two candidates who are switched to capitalize on. said that he was a great day for justice and because it means that nobody is in the now this is a man who was a very trying to highlight he's traveled he was in his diaries little known who are going to regime in an earlier in his campaigning. well there's more on all of our stories r.t. dot com online iraq and u.s. space center this completion in courts controversy as critics fear it's just a cover for making new clear weapons. the end of an era as the famed edward hill. dies in sin petersburg

at the age of seventy seven the legacy of twelve million you tube visitors alone a measure of his huge popularity. back to vietnam and that's what the american military wants as it seeks a return to the country for its armed forces to the latest leg of his asia pacific tour u.s. defense secretary leon panetta has asked for permission for the u.s. navy to use port facilities he also announced that the majority of american warships will be deployed in the area by twenty twenty will talk show host stephen leatherman says the military buildup is clearly aimed at china. well america is doing everything possible to maintain its dominance cloak globally month span obama gave a speech he said america will increase its presence in middle east and the east asia north korea has 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 and 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 one of its fleet of america's east the west coast for the congress it would probably be an act of war. greece is gearing up for a parliamentary election in less than two weeks time which could mean scrapping its bailout deal with the e.u. and i.m.f. future in the eurozone is also under intense scrutiny interview coming up next hour american economist and nobel laureate mascon says an end to the e.u.'s financial

woes is still nowhere in sight. greece could go one. on term depression unemployment could grow to astronomical by it's already very high but it could certainly go higher. things are by no means currently as bad as they as they could get i see the the greek situation as a tragedy because so much of what has happened could have been prevented if europe were truly. integrated unit. 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 or rain didn't deter crowds from marching through montreal two days after talks

between students groups and the government broke down more than two no half thousand people have been arrested since protests february more than a dozen colleges and universities in the province lottie's energy education reports on how american influence in canadian government thinking is being blamed. for. 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 across the borders and seeing what the united states are doing and trying to become closer and closer to what the united states are working on which is more and more precipitation and so i don't but having your social programs that cover for everybody. tens of thousands spilled

onto the streets when the government said they'd be pushing up to we should fees every year and in five years the students of care back will face education costs almost double what they are paying. i mean he knows 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 porch adenoma not even think about going to school because it's another world it's part of something that's accessible he wouldn't even think about being a doctor or if you know it would be you know it's a symbol and what i was saying is that in us it's so expensive so that people the 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 us example that scares the kick want to fund skyrocketing

tuition fees americans carry massive student loan debts on their shoulders we need to preserve this and become what we've seen growing in the united states right now having a lot of today as 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. make whole region and making sure that they have they 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 associations. that function through direct democracy and how they should actually organize and challenge these measures and challenge this shackle system. to protest clearly signaled the path that is willing rather not willing to take when we look towards the united states we see

a country in which the idea of access is wrapped up in the ability to pay and this is where 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 but people of the problem it's not so much about the economy but more about their identity and the special welfare model that they're striving to keep i'm going to check our reporting from montreal canada r.t. . now a look at some other stories making international headlines the death toll from sunday's plane crash in nigeria is expected to rise to around two hundred one hundred fifty three on board died when a jet into a two story building more than forty people missing under the rubble reports say

the pilots was making friends calls just before the crash country's president has declared three days of mourning times. up to sixteen suspected taliban fighters are thought to been killed after u.s. drone strike targeted a militant compound in northwestern pakistan is the seventh attack in the last two weeks ago confirmed reports that foreigners are among the dead it follows increasing tension between pakistan and washington which is ignored demands to stop unmanned aircraft strikes. an aircraft fighting a remote while find their southern u.s. mining town has crashed killing both members on what they were flying over the. friday after the lightning strike in eastern the town of maggie on has been evacuated with the thousand boxes talking the flames it's thought to be the worst blaze mexican's history. business news now and

really you have some positive news for spain tell us more that's right kerry it still of course has the highest unemployment rate in the eurozone but at least for the month of may it decreased ever so slightly i'll give you the figures in a second but first we have another developing story and that has to do with oil majors seeing b.p. apparently china's two biggest oil firms and see not may buy out b.p. out of the company now let's not forget i can see thousand and three b.p. over originally bought the stake for about eight billion dollars and now it's worth around thirty billion dollars and the company has had a lot of interest so far now the move comes weeks after a string of corporate conflicts between russian and british shareholders and other potential candidates so far include russian state energy holding ross they have to gus and meanwhile sources close to the russian billionaire owners say they could buy out for about twenty five billion dollars and of course we'll bring you all the

latest updates on the story as we get it. now look at international markets now we'll start with the europe when it comes to the footsie it's closed today as it's a bank holiday people celebrate in the g. believe they're going to come to the banks it's in the red and basically tracking losses around the world right now investors are really concerned after a string of negative reports we had negative p.m.i. data coming out on friday also we had news jobs data which was a little far less than expected only sixty nine thousand new jobs were generated in the u.s. compared to the expected the hundred sixty five thousand this was a major disappointment basically we saw a domino effect across all markets there but in other european related news we know that cyprus may be the next country that will seek a bailout its banking system which is exposed to greece earlier said that the island rejected suggestions it would need financial aid at the end of june however

cyprus faces a deadline to find almost two billion euros and that's to meet new capital requirements and the analysts fear that this cash will have to come from europe's bailout funds. also according to a new report the jobless rate in the euro zone stood at eleven percent in april which is the same as in march and that's the highest level since nine hundred ninety five and then you have a sense of european war is of course spain and that had the hope jobless rate in the unit at twenty three percent but as i said new figures for the month of may do show that it fell by zero point six percent and the lowest unemployment rate is in all syria at around four percent and bucking the trend this germany with the rate dropping by ten basis points to five point four percent it's. a final look at asian markets which are now closed as you can see a sea of red there the nikkei shedding over one and a half percent while the hang seng region almost super sides in the red and among

the hardest hit there for energy forms that's based on decline in oil prices we also. exporters in japan of mazda losing over seventy percent now here in russia tracking overseas losses are also in the red was that the r.t.s. is dropping almost one percent while the mindsets are shedding around a third of a percent and basically investors here are very concerned about of course everything that's happening in the euro zone negative data coming out from the u.s. as well as the client oil prices always have a major impact on the russian economy and i'll tell you more about that in a second a quick look at currencies the euro is still flat against the dollar although it's slightly gaining this hour when it comes to the ruble still lives and against both major currencies and let's not forget the ruble ten percent of its value for the month of may and trade it against three year lows against the greenback now oil prices are still heading south in fact they are trading near a seven month lows which always backs energy dependent economies such as russia and

we spoke to chief economist ivanchuk out of renaissance capital and he needs pointed out what effect this could have on the russian economy we should not forget . the budget is based on one hundred fifteen or pricing low prices already at. this music you're going to have probably a little bit of a fiscal deficit means the current account is going to be smaller probably we're going to see a continuation of capital economy but as you know in the first quarter of this year because of the group. in particular in comparing one emerging market economies economy grew by five percent even though we do believe that we're going to see. the priest if you cannot make it in the second half of gear to be able to grow about about people sent in two thousand and twelve. all right they have that's the business update for this hour kyra back to you ok thanks for that. but up next star to discuss is the state of the world's finances with u.s.

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you're watching our t.v. main stories we're covering for you down south syria at center stage at the russia east summit with european leaders likely to push russia to exert more pressure on damascus. dialogue to resolve the conflict. also syria's president decries the blue massacre and blasts the perpetrators as monsters attempts to blame his regime while being labeled as part of a plan to engineer foreign military intervention. the court verdict on egypt's ousted leader hosni mubarak and his aides this continued protest both candidates competing in the presidential election seek to exploit the sentencing.

next starts he talks to american economist and nobel laureate eric mascon to find out what he thinks is on the horizon for the troubled world economy. on the lhari it in the comics it's great to have you with us sir today it's a pleasure so let's start with greece and the latest news we know that these public finance is practically paralyzed pensions and salaries won't be paid in june and then you have people and companies transferring their assets out of the country how much worse can actually the cash crunch get will they even be able to get to the seventeenth of june election we don't know the year.