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 commission 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 judgment is so a rush to take up arms at the cost of a war and nine it's exactly what happened in our division of

a massacre which was the village of russia you had a u.n. inquiry 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 career of innocent civilians by government troops serving it was lame presented with ultimatum and ramble gamed and bombed 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. we have been reports that syrian rebels whoever they are. think of being in kosovo liberation army

people who were basically agents of mido in the course or. basically training on how to know they were saying they were training in democracy and human rights but the only training you could have ever given anybody is how to fear massacre in order to stage a war and i believe let's see exactly what's happening now. but even with hindsight after the nato bombing of you can slavia ruling the alliance is a 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 in ated the risk is that punishment will come before even those who are truly responsible are supposed and that could mean not just a loss of justice but also huge loss of life. reef national r t

moscow thousands of lebanese troops have been deployed to the country's second city of tripoli as they try to stop clashes between groups linked to the warring factions in neighboring syria more than a dozen civilians have been killed in recent days as the syrian conflict spills across the border so tomorrow from american syracuse university believes the growing violence is largely being fueled by a third party. 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 axis this has to do with hizbollah this has to do with the launch of 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 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. top new officials are expected to press russian president vladimir putin to change his stance on syria during the summit of the last forty eight hours in some petersburg alongside china the kremlin's opposed to any kind of military intervention it was dialogue instead but there was other issues that took the spotlight of the day putting some of russia's own affairs has got across what was said the. summit meeting a couple of hours ago i was listening in for a side of the arena there and some petersburg what came out of that meeting that.

well of course we all the expected that they are going to talk at length about syria but no actually it was other issues dominating the agenda and one of the most unexpected outcomes was the question about the state of human rights in russia was asked it was posed rather by one of the foreign journalists who said that only eve of the summit flyers were distributed in the hotel where all of the all of the so-called pool press was the presidential pool was staying i have to say by the way that we were apparently staying in the same hotel i saw no such flyers which according to the journalist proclaimed no to russian pinochet and that hundreds are in prison on political issues of course some have raised an eyebrow but a lot of puts and did not seem to bat an eyelash and he actually was quick to come out with a response. thank you both because for sue called political prisoners whenever i go i'm asked about mr holder and his future as we know the

european court of human rights rules because there are new political motives in criminal cases. so if someone suggested i go to prison then i have good company. well of course we're talking about me of course to hear the former oil tycoon who is in prison at the moment on charges of embezzlement and tax evasion now there of what were of course other issues covered at length and are the first and foremost of those was the economy of course the. you're up for it is finding itself in the rather tight grips of the economy crisis we have greece which is threatening to leave the eurozone and of course the decision on that is just weeks away from from now but it did look like the european leaders actually saw the picture in rather rosy colors they said that they are adamant in keeping a greece in the euro zone bods on the terms and conditions that they themselves put down for the country and this of course comes on monday when the markets have

crashed yet again so where we were expecting the international agenda to be dominating on this on the summit on the on the during the talks it turned out that it was some other issues primarily energy and the economy that were actually at the top of the discussions as you say it is ridiculous to think sprint's of the. greece is gearing up for a parliamentary election in less than two weeks time which could mean athens scrapping its bailout deal with the e.u. and i.m.f. greece's future in the euro zone is also under intense scrutiny now in an interview coming up later this hour with an american economist a nobel laureate eric mascot says an end to the e.u.'s financial woes is still nowhere in sight. greece could go and. into all of on term depression unemployment could grow to astronomical high so it's already very high but it could 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 there's so much of what has happened could have been prevented if europe were truly. an integrated unit a. canadian students are back on the streets thousands of marks are montreal two days after talks of the quebec government on choice should freeze collapsed student groups are developing a freeze on planned increases in higher education costs but authorities have ruled out that possibility protesters are now vowing to renew daily rallies which last month led to fierce clashes with police from more than two and a half thousand arrests and is not is going to teach you can reports now what started in february as a student strike has grown into a popular protest against mirroring the welfare system of canada's southern neighbor. 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. sounds they are looking across the borders and seeing what 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 they're having new 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 will face education costs almost double what they are paying now. i mean even 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 they're not even think about being a doctor or if you know what 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 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 that we need to preserve this and become 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. our economy region and making sure that they have because i for it 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 a son. seasons should function through direct democracy and how they should actually organize and challenge these measures and challenge this debt shackle system. the 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 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 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're striving to i'm going to check our reporting from montreal canada r.t. . some of it later in the program egypt shoes who want more life for killing cairo braces for of protests against demonstrators calling lenient sentence for hosni mubarak and his family right now. i mean business china is looking at a stake in one of russia's top oil companies to pay after its british shareholders confirmed it's selling up the news comes a day before the team of putin's first tour of asia central to the kremlin again all about a bit later today. but now the u.s. defense secretary is in vietnam is part of a charm offensive in asia that slowly encircling china on its own but washington's

beefing up its military presence in the asia pacific area is seen as an attempt to contain beijing's growing regional influence leon panetta wants greater american access to vietnam's ports to park nung wong from hong kong city university told us he believes china's neighbors baby using washington to get leverage against china. 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 it will serve a kind of. a signal to china and china can nort assert all is sulphur and he claims over this off china sea and vietnam can also be packed up by the americans military power to counter. dominance in the region the south china sea has been a very important strategic location for number one connecting india oil shipping

routes from the middle east to east asia number two baseball saw a very important commercial shipping routes for all the east and southeast asia nations to solve china sea has been a very important irritant for china and southeast asian nations international relations for the past decade. don't forget all the stories we're covering also. loaded and ready to go right now dawtie dot com. the sensational sylviane singer of his day. of twenty ten with twelve million hits he's passed away and said pete is. also the chinese bus driver who saved all twenty four passengers despite being stuck by a piece of iron that smashed through the window ouch details about that as well amazing pictures on our website.

russia would be soo much brighter if you knew about sun moon from phones to christians. who threw stones on t.v. dot com. culture is that so much about the taxpayers' money materialization is it has a lot of people at area just what trying to do is the west when it comes to soft power is the west specifically the us losing its ability to influence others through example. around the clock protests are continuing cairo's tahrir square as demonstrators there demand the death penalty for ousted president hosni mubarak he was sentenced to life in prison for his role in deaths of protesters in last year's uprising all those posters associates were cleared of the charges r.t. tomba reports from the egyptian capital protesters are occupying tiris square in central cairo calling for a second revolution to change the situation in egypt initial happiness but former

president hosni mubarak was given a life sentence turn 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 execute it and 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 made shafique is the other presidential candidates in this race 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 you know you military regime is still in power and mr shafique said that he would not reinstate that all regime and the choice for the muslim brotherhood would take egypt back to the dark ages as he put it all those 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. tree and more are being planned including a million man march through the capital. to our correspondent in cairo they were arab affairs journalist danny told us both remaining candidates in egypt's presidential election are trying to spin the reaction to mubarak's dig their way. there are also people demonstrating against. life sentence which d.c. is very lenient but it also has to be said there are also commentators and other

people who think the key to successful revolution is precisely to do this on the mood of the rule and since then execution of mubarak would be a setback to not only egypt's revolution but also to the arab spring in general and surely and a key to a successful revolution is not to see america being reproduced in a tree and democracy in egypt but the two candidates who were switched to capitalize on it and said today he was in great danger just. because it means that nobody is among now this is a man who was a very trying to highlight his child traveled he was in his ties a little more american regime and only in his convening. in brief car bombs going off near to government offices in the iraqi capital baghdad it's killed at least eighteen people and wounded dozens more the blast is the deadliest single attack in months it follows a series of assaults last week that claim seventeen lives. emergency crews nigeria

say they fear the country's worst plane crash in nearly two decades has claimed many lives on the ground as well all one hundred fifty three onboard died when their adult douglas eighty three jet plowed into a two story building in a neighborhood near lagos airport exact cause still isn't known but the plane's pilot reported engine trouble partly minutes before the tragedy a jury has declared three days of national mourning for the victims. denmark was convicted for mail of plotting a terrorist attack on the newspaper the published cartoons mocking the prophet muhammad seven years ago the men were arrested in twenty ten after their plan for a shooting rampage was uncovered all those convicted are of north african or middle east descent they could get up to sixteen years jail when centered. later on monday . and monday marks the anniversary of the telemann square massacre in china in one thousand nine hundred nine when hundreds of pro-democracy student protesters were

killed in a brutal crackdown charge leadership hasn't released any official accounts of the events with the exact number of dead still on no public remembrance of the trans allowed in china. cultural business and i was just a little after twenty three minutes past that for the afternoon bushels there now be paying could lose one of its main cash cows this story goes on and on doesn't it really is that every day on these firms the bidding for its russian norm which brings in around a quarter of the profits really profitable for can see not have contacted the british firm of the tea russian managements that it wasn't happy with the way the joint venture is being rolled across europe is in beijing with the latest. sule large chinese companies and they signed it back and also the china national offshore all corporation which are the second and third largest oil companies in china respectively are looking to buy into the dmca 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 it's already more than half of china's overall oil purchases 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 share holders of the b.b. have the priority of buying the british part of the shares but definitely nobody could rule out the possibility of the chinese buying it in. the us is a tumbling further on the one hundred dollars of terrible economic data from the

world worst of all. the confidence index has just been good meanwhile lending between these falling before since zero eight mostly london is closed for a holiday today what you see there is friday's closing. hit. regaining some of its losses this year if only slightly both to run about two point eight percent. exchange rates the euro's gaining but some recent losses against the dollar the ruble those shedding major corus is up to the new news from eurozone banks coming in and we'll have more. all right. thanks so much those kids up there. the next time i'll tell you the world's finances under the microscope more with the u.s. economy the nobel laureate eric mascot he speaks to us in a couple of minutes time our friday brought you up to date with the headlines in about four minutes time.

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a lot. of the victims to use it as a threat all as an actual weapon you know if you keep spinning a trillion dollars a year on weapons of venture you're going to blow everybody up you you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't wake up to nuclear weapons or a bill. that represents all the firepower of the second world war and this second sound is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today. hold it hold it hold it. hold it hold it. i lift up the to.

the speed. and. we're. going to move slow and good. luck. just see. in a moment. i come out of my mind i'm a little. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything is all you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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calls for foreign intervention in syria western and arab countries meeting to feel massacred might be used as a pretext for military action. in syria would also be russia. russia. on thousands of canadian students returned to the streets to protest against the rising cost of education two days after. the protest is also say they

failed. up next we'll talk to an american economist nobel laureate to find out what he thinks is the troubled world economy. novel 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 christie's 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.