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 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 cloud to see where hasty joe kennedy saw a rush to take up arms over the course of a war and nine it's exactly what happened in our division of a massacre which was the village of russia you had if you were in korea 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 murder on programs occur of innocent civilians by government troops serving it was when presented with ultimatum and ramble again 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 cost of a 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 interestingly enough. we've been reports of syrian rebels whoever they are liaising 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 democracy and human rights but definitely the only training that the k.l.a. could have ever given anybody is how to figure masculine or. stage of war we look

at what's happening now. but even with hindsight after the nato bombing of yugoslavia ruling the alliance is 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 in ated the risk is that punishment will come before even those who are truly responsible are supposed and that could mean not just also of justice but also huge loss of life reef notion r.t. mosco. the rebels decision to quit the un backed truce was largely motivated by the behavior of the u.s. and its allies that's the view of antiwar activist don de bar who's extensively covered civil conflicts in arab countries. the united states is trying to kill it

but it's absolutely essential that some sort of peace oriented mission take place or there will be bloodshed horrible bloodshed in syria little make libya look like a picnic united states has been very clear from the outset really of the activity in syria that they want to see assad go on they have geopolitical reasons for that particularly the relationship with iran but i mean let's be realistic here there's the u.s. has been intervening since this uprising quote unquote began the report earlier mentions the fact that these are clearly professional soldiers that are conducting these operations these are not protesters that decided to grab some rocks or maybe if it was still because of the response of the state to their protests this is an army that was placed there either emigres from syria or just foreign nationals generally it's being supplied from the outside from turkey the nato country from jordan and from lebanon and so the intervention is already a fact whether or not it becomes an overt intervention outside of the u.n.

which by the way is illegal or you know take some other form the intervention has been underway since this you know since the arms struggle what i'm told began. coming up later in the program the egyptians who want more than life for killing cairo bracing for a third day of protests against what demonstrators call a lenient sentence for hosni mubarak and his former right hand man. saber threats hacker attacks on laws officially aiming to tackle internet piracy but in fact in french people's rights to online privacy it's an increasingly topical subject and the world's most famous whistleblower is aiming to get to the heart of it you know latest edition of his interview program here on our team julian assange gets together with activists from cypherpunk movement here's a taste of what's to come later on tuesday. technology enables those also

the ends of every communication then there is do the other side of that coin is what we do with it we could admit that there are some indeed some legitimate use investigators investigating the bad guys and bad guys and so on but the question is where to draw this judicial supervision where to go to the control that the citizens can have over the use of this technology this is a police and when we get to those police issues and we were looking at the earlier you have. to sign something and don't understand the underlying technology which is why we see so much hype about cyber war is that some people that seem to be in the authority about war start talking about technology as if they understand it but they're always talking about war because that's their business and so they're trying to root technology into that and so when we have no control of our technology we have these people that wish to use it for for their ends for war specifically that's a recipe for some pretty scary stuff. that we hear about five for

a punk activists interviewed by julian assange jeremy zimmerman who was held for questioning on his return to france apparently the purpose was to fish out information about the wiki leaks founder and it's not the first time the program has provoked a rast with a top human rights activist from bahrain detained after talking to assad months ago . now canadian students are back on the streets thousands have marched to montreal two days after talks with the government on tuition fees collapsed student groups are demanding a freeze on planned increases in education costs but authorities have ruled out the possibility protesters are now vowing to renew delhi rallies which last month led to fierce clashes with police and more than two and a half thousand arrest can now reports that what started in february as a student strike is now grown into

a popular protest against mirroring the welfare system kind of a 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 the united states are doing and trying to become closer and closer to what the united states are working on which is more in line for it is a shame instead of reading 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 keg will face education

costs almost double with their opinions. 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 for children who may not even think about going to school because it's another world it's part of something the text. when i even think about being a doctor or if you know it would be. and what i was saying is so expensive so the people the poor people they want to either 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 who funds skyrocketing tuition fees americans carry massive student loan debts on their shoulders we need to preserve this and become what we see growing in the united

states right now having a lot of students they are still paying for their university program and when they are seventy years old so we need to make sure that every students will be able to country. region and make sure that they have you 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 whole system. to protest clearly signalled 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 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 there too we should but for people of the province it's not so much about the economy but more about their identity and the special welfare model that they are striving to keep i'm going to check our reporting from montreal canada r.t. . don't forget all the stories we cover are also available anytime online here's what's uploaded and ready at our dot com life sentence for a russian man as libya convicted over twenty people for allegedly helping next leader moammar gadhafi but they insist they were saying they were working as an engineer. resident billionaire. planning a big party a political one that is after securing the six million votes in russia's

presidential election discover more details of our teeth dot com. protests have gone into their third night in a row in egypt over hosni mubarak sentence the country's ousted leader and his former interior minister are serving life for complicity in the killing of eight hundred fifty protesters during last year's uprising mubarak's two songs and six security officials have been acquitted dumbarton reports from the egyptian capital . protesters are occupying terrorist 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 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 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 the 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. over thirty people have been arrested by libyan authorities after an armed militia group overran tripoli international airport on monday the group surrounded planes and grounded all flights to manning the release of one of their commanders who had allegedly been detained but after several hours government forces regained complete control of the facility security checkpoints were set up around the city where tension over the brief standoff

remains high dr omar assured from the institute arabic arab and islamic studies at x. three university says libya still struggles to maintain post revolution security. the conservation process is not complete the demobilization disarmament and the integration of ex combat is not complete. now we have a situation of the independent armed brigades that are still existed in the bia who did not join the military did not join the security forces but. lot of. the government but are still armed and still have a clear command and control structure what brought us into this crisis was the kidnapping of. the she one of the affordable called the that would be an army front of. a stronghold of defeat after that immovable of political defeat we find some of

the probably the supporters of of the and he disappeared. he was kidnapped according to his followers they said he was kidnapped. to pressure the national transitional council to initiate investigations use the investigation they went on and took over the. the u.s. defense secretary is in vietnam as part of a charm offensive in asia that's something encircling china in its own backyard washington is beefing up its military presence in the engine pacific area seen as an attempt to contain beijing's growing regional influence leon panetta wants a greater american access to vietnam sports that could proper long long from hong kong city university believes china's neighbors may be 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 if we will serve a kind of of our signal to china and china care nor to assert all 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. dominance in the region the south china sea has been a very important astrological creation for number one connecting all you'll shipping routes from the middle east to east asia number two these all saw a very important commercial shipping routes for all the east and southeast asian nations to see how a speech in a very important irritant for china and south east asian nations international relations for the past decades. a look now at some other world stories making headlines a suicide car bomber has killed twenty three people and injured more than seventy

others in baghdad it's the deadliest single attack in iraq in three months later a mortar shell struck close to the main office for sunni muslim religious affairs to cause no damage or injuries. the rebels in mali have announced a new council claiming independence for the country's north it will lead to a government of national unity two opposing groups are struggling for the upper hand but can agree on merging because of religious differences whose very turmoil began in mali three months ago when a group of soldiers seized the presidential palace saying the government has lost control of the country. and the suicide bomb attack in southern yemen has killed four tribal militias men allied to government forces the blast was in response to army attempts to retake the city. in which which is held by al-qaeda militants military officials say another terrorist cell phone up near

a checkpoint in the same city but there were no injuries. and four men were jailed for twelve years each for plotting to attack the office of a danish newspaper publishing cartoons depicting the prophet muhammad the suspected terrorists were arrested in twenty ten after their shooting rampage plants were uncovered all those convicted are of north african or middle east descent. your dogs are american economist and nobel laureate eric mask and find out what he thinks is on the horizon for the world's troubled economy.

bill are it in economics 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 his public finance is practically paralyzed there caus that 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 answer to that since. the election has. in the near future i suspect that

they they can and hobble through to the election but things could deteriorate and get even worse and in the meantime i see be the greek situation as a tragedy because so much of what has happened could have been prevented if europe were truly an integrated unity if the same steps said and taken on the fiscal side that is the public spending and tax side as were taken ten years ago on the monetary side so that there were there were it would be true. fiscal integration true centralization of fiscal policy. the. public debt problems that we see in greece but we also see spain italy and number of other countries would have

automatically have been solved by by virtue of having a centralized europe spanish banks bankia has requested the biggest spill out in spanish banking history and have the spanish banks all soak up the already sure spain has had. some real problems too. and. while they have whether or not nearly. as serious trouble. as greece. it's bad the austerity program there has has only made things worse but just how much financial power. to national and the e.u. authorities have to support spain in countries that are in similar situation like italy for example if they wanted to. exercise more

power at the level of the of the union they could do it there are lots of things that could be done to ease the fiscal problem and spain and portugal one good idea which has been proposed which i hope will be adopted at some point as the idea of a euro bonds to translates private debts and. ordered national debts and so the european objects some fund managers are openly right now dumping the here assets and it's no surprise that it's running really low installer. but is dollar a safe bet at this point i mean america itself has a huge gap and its government up six its g.d.p. the dollar has always been a safe haven at times of economic uncertainty and i think it will continue to be a safe haven for for many years to come yes there is

a. a debt problem in the u.s. in the sense that the debt to g.d.p. ratio is higher than it normally is and that it's. if you extract the way it's going for the current situation going forward. it looks as though the jet g.d.p. the debt to g.d.p. ratio will actually. continue to increase but in fact. the seriousness of this problem has been exaggerated so you don't look at it as a crisis i look at it as as a problem but as a fixable problem and not a problem that has to be solved immediately by any means i i think a much more important problem the united states is to get three a con and

a back to normal uninformed of the still running at something like eight percent which is too high the first priority should be getting the economy back to normal and then to worry about. about solving the long term debt problem if let's say two three men four years ago someone would have sat that you were already facing at crisis of this scale probably people would laugh in your face like no of course not do you think do you think scholars missed something or is it just that the world economy the model of the world economy is running low and it's out of battery and just unable to deliver girls now i actually i don't think this crisis was missed i mean. the financial crisis of a way of nine was was something of a surprise to many economists but the problem with europe would not at all miss

that there were many economists many prominent economists who pointed out at the founding of the monetary union beginning at the last decade that there was a serious asymmetry between the way monetary policy and fiscal policy would be handled that monetary policy was centralized in the european central bank that fiscal policy was not centralized that in the long run this asymmetry was not sustainable crank my skin thank you very much for this interview my pleasure. to me. the litmus

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it was r t why from moscow our top stories syrian rebels reject the u.n. peace plan i'm renew international calls to impose a no fly zone president that's his voice is growing some arab countries for armed action after the civilian slaughter in houla. thousands of canadian students returned to the streets to protest against the rising cost of education two days after the. protesters also say they fear their country is comping the u.s. system and young americans deep in debt. and libyan authorities have

regained complete control of the city's tripoli international airport dozens of armed militia men have been arrested. after storming the facility and demanding the release of one of their leaders. up next how does china plan to justify and legitimize its economic growth that's a topic for peter the bell and his aghast in the latest edition stock. and. below in welcoming cross-talk our bureau after a decade of.