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 nine months exactly what happened in our division of a massacre which was the village of russia you have 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 randomly aimed 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 about the we have been reports of syrian rebels whoever they are. with the. think of being in kosovo liberation army the people who were basically agents of mido in the coastal war basically treading on i don't know they were saying they were training in the marsian human rights but definitely the only. remember usually by use how to. stage

a war. what's happening now. but even with hindsight after the nato bombing of yugoslavia 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 exposed and that could mean not just also of justice but also huge loss of life . reef nationality most. residents in lebanon's northern city of tripoli have gone on strike it's in protest of the deadly clashes between groups linked to the warring factions in neighboring syria thousands of troops have been deployed after more than a dozen civilians were killed there over the weekend as the syrian conflict spreads

wider let's get some more thoughts about this from a political analyst. in beirut hi there thanks for being with us on r.t. we've watched the violence in lebanon rage for several weeks now to what extent is a serious conflict engulfing the wider region. the syrian the syrian conflict is definitely going to have negative effects on lebanon jordan and neighboring countries we could say. that even is not going to be that far from what's happening. in my viewpoint is and i heard earlier in the documentary that they are saying that the yugoslavian scenario and comparing it to syria and what's happening here. where i wonder. if history repeating itself or it's the same road some foreign forces would like to see even.

between and between sunni and shia between tribes in order to divide the arab world just like they divide it was largely an eastern europe. and this is something that i have been wondering about ever since this event started and another thought is well the escalation here the possible conflicts clearly wrong we have another expert telling us that the thoughts of regional players of interests of the syrian violence spreading beyond the border because it could eventually then justify foreign intervention in the country to see that some argument as well. well i think foreign intervention in syria is going to be very difficult unless there is need to cover and. whether it's up to russia and china whether to accept this intervention or not whether it's in their own benefit or not and honestly i do not see the benefit of these two countries and i don't see the benefit of those who are not

going to enjoy. the movements taking over the arab world and egypt is just a great example for such a spread and for such a post post revolution situation. in the region and i think. more and more convinced every day and that. war of the last war of jihad against the syrian regime not only against bashar assad himself but against all the secular regime remaining in the region and there are not too many anymore. i'm sure you've heard. all these mullahs from different countries from pakistan to saudi arabia to qatar and they are calling for jihad and the word jihad against the regime is not only about the regime it's also about. you know fighting for their own minds. i think in order to

seize power and after this power is seen. you know. all my low and the sharia law understood just one last quick question she we were running out of time or a little bit six months time in six months time for instance do you think president assad will still be in charge. i think so yes and i think that this is a war. there is no civil war as such and syria but there are some some forces trying to destabilize the regime the way they can see this for spreading more and more and the faith that it might spread into northern lebanon as well that he will remain in power there is not a person prediction not nonetheless political analyst thanks very much. top e.u. officials are expected to press russian president vladimir putin to changes syria

during their summit in st petersburg alongside china the kremlin's opposed to any kind of military intervention it was dialogue instead but it was other issues that took the spotlight earlier on today including sort of russia's own of smarties when a glitch has been following those top level talks earlier. the final press conference attended by the chairman of the european commission chose emmanuel but it was a and of course the chairman off the european council herman van rompuy of course lies and puts an egg question was posed by one of the foreign journalists who is apparently part of the presidential rule and he said that there were leaflets distributed at the hotel where he is staying with said no to russian pinochet and hundreds of opposition members are in prison and just a quick aside we are apparently staying in the same hotel we did not see any such fliers but the case remains that the question was posed and the russian president was quick to come up with a response to it. called political prisoners whenever i go i'm off about mr holder

and his future as we know the european court of human rights there are new political motives criminal cases. so if someone suggests i go to prison then i'll have good company of course we're talking about me to hear the former oil tycoon who is in prison at the moment on charges of investment and tax evasion now there of what were of course other issues covered at length and the first and foremost of those was the economy of course the e.u. were up for it is finding itself in the rather tight grips of the a comic crisis we have a 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 and rather rosy colors they said that they're adamant in keeping a greece a in the eurozone 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. now 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 is future of the euro zone's also under intense scrutiny an interview coming up next hour american economist and nobel laureate eric mascon says an end to the financial woes is still nowhere in sight. greece could go on. and so on term depression unemployment could grow to astronomical high so 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 seem to be the greek situation as a tragedy because so much of what has happened could have been prevented if europe were truly. an integrated unit.

a canadian students a back on the streets thousands of marched through montreal two days ago to talk to the quebec government told we should fix collapse student groups are demanding freedom on planned increases in higher education costs with ortiz ruled out the possibility of protests as an outgoing three new daily rallies which last month led to fierce clashes with policemen who were not in the rest i was going to she can report what started in february as a student strike has now grown into a popular protest against marrying the welfare system kind of the southern. 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 see 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 presence is a show that instead of adding new social programs that harbor for everybody. tens of thousands spilled onto the streets when the government said they'd. the pushing up too we should 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 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. you know it would be you know it's

a symbol and what i was saying is in us 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 u.s. example that scares the kick want to fund skyrocketing tuition fees americans carry massive student loan debts on their shoulders and 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 the. region and make sure that they have they can afford 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 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. . come

a bit later in the program egyptians you want more than life for killing cairo braces for protests against the demonstrators call the lenient sentence for holes mubarak and his former right hand man. b.p. has made one of the world's best returns from b.p. earning forty billion dollars in years but there looks to be overall room as its russian partners all happy with the company's ambitions no choice all joins all circling b.p. stake we have a story of business or old time for. us to find secretaries in vietnam as part of a charm offensive in asia that slowly encircling china in its own backyard washington's beefing up its military presence in the asia pacific area is seen as an attempt to contain beijing's growing regional influence the input as it wants greater american access to vietnam's ports dr park non-war from hong kong city university believes china's neighbors may be using washington to get leverage against china. i would not say you don't decide this 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 power going cheaps against china if you serve a kind of. no to china china can north assert or is so foreign to claims over this off china sea and vietnam can also be packed up by the americans military power to come to china as the military dominance in the region the south china sea has been a very important astrological creation for number one connecting all you shipping routes from the middle east to east asia number two these all saw a very important commercial shipping rules for all the east and southeast asian nations to solve china sea has been a very important irritant for china in southeast asia nations international relations for the past decades don't forget all the stories we're covering also

available anytime online this is what got uploaded ready and waiting for you right now at r.t. dot com. but unfortunately he's gone for world to mr troll the sensational soviet singer of his day you tube it of twenty ten you may recall twelve million hits he's passed away and simply to charge his success online. and russian billionaire tycoon mikhail prokhorov spreading a big party a political one that is after securing six million votes in russia's presidential election discover the details that are t.v. dot com. around the clock protests are continuing in cairo's tahrir square as demonstrators demand the death penalty for ost of president hosni mubarak his interior minister

was sentenced to life in prison for their role in deaths of protesters in last year's uprising although mubarak associates were cleared of the charges tomball reports from the egyptian capital. protesters are occupying thai risk where in central cairo they're calling for a second revolution to change the situation in egypt initial happiness but 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 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 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 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. of furze journalist and he says both

remaining candidates need a presidential election trying to spin the reaction to their way. they are of people demonstrating against our wired life sentence which they see as marian in the end but it 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 more of the rule 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 who america the tactics being used in a tree and democracy in egypt but the two candidates who are switched to capitalize on. 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 in his dies with little men who are going to the regime in the area and he's convening. car bombs going off near two government offices in the iraqi capital baghdad it's killed at least eighteen people and wounded dozens more the blast as the deadliest single attack in months follows a series of assaults last week that claim seventy lives. emergency crews in nigeria say they fear the worst the country's worst plane crash nearly two decades is claimed many lives on the ground as well all one hundred fifty three on board died when their and the eighty three jet plowed into a two story building in a neighborhood near lagos airport the exact cause of what went so badly wrong isn't known but the plane's pilots reported engine trouble minutes before the tragedy nigeria's declared three days of national mourning for the victims. denmark is convicted for men approaching a terrorist attack on the newspaper that 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 eastern descent they could get up to sixteen years jail when sentence later on monday. monday marks the anniversary of the telemann square massacre in china in one thousand eight hundred nine when hundreds of pro-democracy student protesters were killed in a brutal army crackdown the chinese leadership has released any official account of the events of that day with the exact number there still are no no public remembrance of the tragedy is a matter of. time for business now and dan is there dan i gather portuguese banks now need a bailout what you may remember top spanish lender bank here was nationalized they had to be rescued last month now in neighboring portugal is having to bail out three top lenders lisbon today said it will pop six billion euro into that what they call pay back loans to finance ministry also wards of the banks may need help the whole e.u. situation seems to be disintegrating jews eurozone investor confidence index has

slumped again the more lending between e.u. banks is falling it is false just for you. years footsies closed for a holiday today thank god that sir friday's closing figures there that that is that why month lows it's threatening to go under six thousand points so no pick and see not have contacted the british oil firm. russian management said it wasn't happy with the way the joint venture is being run our correspondent alex your she is in beijing with the latest. sule large chinese companies they sign 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 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 shareholders have the priority of buying the british part of the shares but definitely nobody could rule out the possibility of the chinese buying in. shares here in rebounding from last week's double digit collapse following news of the possible sort of b.p. shares in the company hopes that that will be resolved shareholders could join as it tries to get the voles gas deposits in russia's north branding finally

discovered this first quarter and that more than doubled. further ahead in the off . terrible run this year it's now considered top value or prices all tumbling go further on the hundred dollars of terrible economic data from around the world particularly europe exchangers the euro's gaining some recent losses against the dollar against the major currencies lower to the euro to the dollar and futures. again we'll have the opening bell for you next they'll have it produce a bit of good news from you so what don't know when that's going to come down thanks for that update good stuff now in a few minutes time for the american dream from a new perspective more on that after i've updated the headlines in just about three and a half minutes from now. the

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top stories calls for foreign intervention in syria grow in some western countries leading to phase the. pretext for military action. against meddling in the. despite the expectation that syria would also dominate the russian review somebody in some petersburg it was in fact russia's own affairs that were in the spotlight when commenting once again on the imprisonment of former. but ima putin reiterated that there was no political interference in the case. and thousands of canadian students returned to the streets to protest against the rising cost of education two days after talks with quebec authorities about the. protests as also say they fear their countries copying the u.s.

system that's landed young americans deep in debt. next the story of a modern day outlaw on a one month crusade to protect america's notoriously violent border with mexico. and the immigration bill goes down in the senate that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo critics of arizona's newly signed immigration bill saying 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.