in view of the of the massacre in the town of houla which saw more than a hundred people killed most of them were children of course the un human rights council has already come out with a resolution which wasn't supported by russia russia said that the that resolution actually counteracted the already existing one which was brought out just just over a week ago but that very same council russia said that they resolution is also biased and it's it does look like the european leaders are just adamantly trying to do anything in their power in order to push out of president assad from his current post and deliver the power into the hands of the opposition you have to keep in mind at this point the the investigation which is carried out by the u.n. security council is still incomplete and many believe that this recent resolution by the human rights council is actually putting pressure on the on this ongoing investigation is also impeding the progress of the kofi annan peace plan for syria

of course russia's president putin has already agreed to rated moscow's point and that is that dialogue is the only acceptable way to deal with the crisis in syria at the moment he has mentioned it during his whirlwind european tour which just wrapped up so it is will be interesting to see it whether or not russia and european leaders will be able to come to a new agreement on this issue and this is just one of several major matters which will be just which are being discussed right now here in st petersburg among other things of course they are going to touch upon the iran nuclear program and the ways to deal with that as well and of course the economy the economy is one of the most pressing points especially for you were a break now you have to remember that we have greece which is threatening to pull out from the eurozone and whether and when it's going to be done and what will happen to the union is still remains unclear of course there's also the matter of the energy supplies. from russia to europe european leaders have already said that

of course russia is the biggest supplier of gas to europe and europe is russia's biggest client so there is a lot of interdependency when it comes to this particular relationship where it is concerned but again that we are looking at where the international relations are topping the agenda we are hoping that something will be done in order to stop the bloodshed in syria but of course there is still just several basically we are minutes away from the final press conference during which of course it is expected some movement will be made. from st petersburg on r.t. thank you for now. well syrian leader bashar assad has flatly rejected any state involvement in the houla slaughter 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. as foreign intervention may

be the ultimate goal. ten days after the terrible massacre in the syrian city of houla 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 li 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 of course or and not exactly what happened in our division of a massacre which was the village of russia you have a un in korea that was severely bullied by the u.s. ambassador is leading your observation mission on the ground your claims that it was a brutal massacre or as a girl innocent civilians by government troops serving with blame presented with ultimatum and ramble again and bought back then the yugoslav and government just 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 may. the

casualties died in combat the third report by an e.u. team has never been made public interesting we know about but then 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 for. basically treading on don't know they were saying they were training in the marsian human rights but definitely the only training that they could have even anybody is how do you figure masculine or stage or war. or what's happening now. but even with hindsight after the nato bombing of yugoslavia ruin the alliances these tribes 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 so-called in ated the risk is that punishment will come before even those who are truly responsible are posed and that could mean not just a loss of justice but also huge loss of life. reef nationality mosco on the r. clarke a contributor to britain's guardian newspaper says a major obstacle to kofi annan is a 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. down here because you know let's face it the u.s. britain france saudi arabia qatar do not want to succeed it's 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 there 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 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 the western powers and countries like qatar saudi arabia and rein in the rebels and say to them look stop this and stop supplying the 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 efforts to stop clashes between pro and anti yesod groups with a dozen civilians have died there in recent days as the conflict from neighboring syria spills across the border. from america's syracuse university believes the growing violence has been 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 one 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 the launch of the west determined 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 the whole region into a complication are huge conflicts 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. in just a few minutes report from cairo and protests over the court verdict on ousted

dictator hosni mubarak the decision to. put his son is and has ignited these protests from then supporters execution both candidates into the presidential election seek to exploit the controversy in the campaigns. of the u.s. military seeks to return to vietnam as part of its buildup in the asia pacific region let's say news of the effort to undermine china. now in canada thousands have again taken to the streets of quebec. fourteen weeks of protests and demands for tuition fee free rein didn't deter crowds from marching through montreal two days after talks between student groups and the government broke down more than two and a half thousand people have been arrested since protests started in february and it doesn't colleges and universities in the province is going to kind of course now on american influence and canadian government thinking is being blamed. 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 states are working on which is more in my presentation instead of 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 ration fees every year and in five years the students of care back will face education costs almost double. with their pain. 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 there around now in the future higher education just won't be an option for me if it's too expensive . not even think about going to school because it's another world it's part of something that's accessible they're not even think about being a doctor or if you know it would be you know. and what i was saying is so expensive so the people the poor people they want to 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 walk to fund skyrocketing tuition fees americans carry massive student loan debts on their shoulders and we need to preserve this because what we've seen 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 the. region and make sure that they have because i for it actually to start 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 protests clearly signaled the path that 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 up in the ability to 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. 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 for people of the problem it's not so much about the economy but more about their identity and the special welfare model that they are striving to i'm going to check our reporting from montreal canada. well there's more in all our stories come including iran's space center nears completion and court controversy as critics fear it's just a cover for making nuclear weapons. the end of an era as the famed. hill also known as mr challoner dies in st petersburg at the age of seventy seven the legacy of twelve million you tube presence is a measure of his huge popularity. vietnam

flashback that's what the american military one seeks to return to the country for its armed forces which in the latest leg of his asia pacific tour u.s. defense secretary leon panetta has also 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 well for more on that now we're joined live by phone professor at the city university of hong kong thank you for joining us on. the u.s. as you say wants to return to a base to use until the end of the vietnam war why is washington seeking to go back now do you think. you know what i think the washington d.c. has been consistent he. sees scenes the obama administration have top to return to asia policy right now how does that happen i think the south china sea has been a very important asked raji take location for number one connecting the oil

shipping routes from the middle east to east asia number two also all very important commercial shipping routes for all the east and southeast asian nations and obama administration have determined that it is the armor of cones the national interest to protest the security of these solve china sea right now dissolved china sea has been a very important irritant for china in southeast asian nations international relations for the past decade in the recently east that the major claim to solve china sea is not just involving china and vietnam they are also other parties such as the philippines sleep with malaysia and also taiwan now the situation the deal made for the past eight years to the north pole of china and

vietnam has been improving their relationship ended nine hundred ninety s. and to thousands we have to look to what happened in the peace treaty after china in vietnam in ninety seven deny china in vietnam also engaged in a marine conference in ninety seven in ninety eight ok let me give me just a moment there i made the people suffer dreadfully from past us michu action in there against them could their government actually be considering letting the american military return will this will this happen. yep they of course welcome americans return because it will serve a kind of. no to china china can nort assert all is so frantic aims over this off china sea and vietnam can also be packed up by the americans military power to counter china's military dominance in the region so

what's going to get in return for granting access to u.s. warships. i think there should be some financial aspect involved but apart from financial aspect i believe the vietnamese and the american government should have certain agreement all on some joint oil exploration and touring and we find the repro jazz and of course they will be in having agreement on. security agreement or for the whole of solve china sea so why would smaller countries in the region be eager to give up china as a key ally and not for the u.s. instead. i think for themselves trying to see as i said is a major irritant for china and southeast asian countries and i think

i would not say that this office asian countries this more powers would like to give up china but they would like to invite the united states to join in the arena so that they could have more bargaining chips against china ok we'll have to leave it there thank you very much indeed to the park and the long professor at the city university of hong kong. around the clock protests are continuing on tahrir square in cairo there's fury over what demonstrators see as the lenient sentencing of egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak and his associates ortiz tom barton says many are angry he's not to be executed. protesters are occupying thai risk where in central cairo they're 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 towards the camp he 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 the chief prosecutor of egypt has also said that he's going to try and appeal the acquittals of some of those senior security officials after marriage 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 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 some bottom reporting that. says both remaining candidates presidential election are trying to spin their reaction to their own way. they are of people demonstrating against our wired life sentence which they see as we're in in the end but it also has to be said that there are also commentators and other people who are saying that the key to successful revolution is precisely to do this on the more of it all and trying

to send 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 the american tactics being reproduced in a tree and democracy in egypt but the two candidates who are switched to capitalize on. the said that he was in great danger just. because it means that nobody is in the know this is a man who was a very trying to highlight he's traveled he was and he's di's little men who are going to the regime in the area and he's convening. now a look at some other stories making international headlines this hour the death toll from sunday's plane crash in nigeria is expected to rise to around one hundred one hundred fifty three on board died when the jet into a two story building forty people missing the rubble say the pilot was making

frantic calls just before the crash the country's president has declared three days of national mourning for the victims. the sixteen suspected taliban fighters are thought to 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 it follows increasing tension between pakistan and washington which has ignored demands to stop unmanned aircraft strikes. well some business news now. thanks carol we're of course of following the developing story with b.p. we're now know that two chinese companies are reportedly sequence of buy out b.p. from the oil major and we know that b.p. overage the only paid eight billion dollars for share back in two thousand and three and now this is worth about thirty billion dollars now the move comes weeks after a string of corporate conflicts between russian and british shareholders and other

potential candidates include russian state energy holding us sources close to the russian billionaire owners say they could buy out b.p. for twenty five billion dollars well to get the latest on the story i'm now joined by correspondent alex a chef there who's in beijing for us hello alex a nice to see there that can you tell us are we on track to see new foreign partners in process of third biggest oil company. well this is definitely a probability because we understand that through large chinese companies of the sign it back and also the china national offshore all corporation which are the second and third large. oil companies in china respectively are looking to buy b.p. now that the british shareholders are selling their stake now certainly for china this would mean diversification of their resources of of buying oil from russia right now when the stand that russia and china are already under an agreement russia sells thirteen million tons of oil to china every year until twenty thirty

with should the chinese companies buy into the. this amount could be expanded it's already more than half of china's overall. but still this number could be bigger certainly for china this is a very important issue it is one of the most energy hungry countries in the world in fact different experts and organizations china in the first place in the energy consuming countries in the world and i say that more than twenty percent of the global energy consumption comes from china so we understand that for the moment the russian shareholders have the priority of buying the british part of the shares but definitely nobody could rule out the possibility of the chinese buying it especially with the russian chinese summit to be held within the next three days and probably this issue will be discussed here at the very highest level with. lots

of people related to the energy trade to the energy exports from russia will also be here in beijing to talk about the future supplies and possibly the fate of the body we are certainly following all the developments here and so we here alexei thank you very much reporting from beijing correspondent. well we have a little bit of time let's take a look at the markets will start with. as you can see the footsies close for the jubilee celebrations and they are when it comes to that almost one and a half percent after pessimism and following data coming out from europe and they were last on a quick look at there also marked. so tracking all over seems the losses and if we can take a look at the latest figures we'll see that the arts yes and stop at point eight percent the my success month or so recovers slightly probably more time to see if both will modest make a good start and that's all that's all i have the south carin the studio ok marina thanks for that update. coming up soon as he discusses the state of the world's

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to find out what he thinks is on the horizon for the troubled world economy. well bill are 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 chris hayes 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 be able to get to the seventeenth of june election we don't know the answer to that since. the.